Heard this one? The City of Barcelona traded 3 lanes of vehicle traffic for an exceptional 4.7km green pedestrian corridor in the heart of the Eixample grid. Businesses sued, & eventually won in court. Then they admitted that they actually like the change. Streets for people are good for business.

A person rolled their car into my teenage son a fortnight ago. It was broad daylight and the driver was looking down while their car was rolling forward. I know, because I was yelling, trying to get their attention. Drivers who don't see us are often not looking. My son hasn't cycled since

Which way did the bicycle go? Towards or away from camera??

Tá Comhairle Cathrach BÁC le "Páirc Herzog" i gCeantair Rath Gharbh a díainmniú. An ceart san a dhéanamh?

Shameless Garda PR blitz links road deaths to visibility issues in cases where there is no link Comment & Analysis: Sadly, I have to start this article by saying, for the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this article says 'don't be visible'. Lights are a legal requirement, and it'd be a good start…

"The human cost is stark. Pedestrians aged 75 and over account for nearly a quarter of all fatalities, while one in three victims is 25 or under, and one in five is a child below 15." I speak to road safety campaigners about what needs to be done ...#roadsafety www.independent.ie/life/red-lig...

croí an iascaire nó an fheirmeora fós beo i measc rothaíthe uirbeacha na Gaillimhe agus iad ag pleanáil a dturais

National Transport priorities in this weeks NDP dodcument are shown here . But the funding in Galway City is the reverse. The ring road is allocared more money than Busconnects, and I cannot find any active travel projects in the budget! Full document www.gov.ie/en/departmen... 1/3

I wear a high viz vest and insist that my children wear them if on their bikes. I am not a road safety authority. Your messaging and action need to be on the sources of road danger, not the victims of it. You are fiddling while the road burns.

That’s quite an own goal by Transport Minister Darragh O’Brien delaying the Finglas Luas by two years, and stalling on DART+ South West till 2030, on World Sustainable Transport Day, no less. Who needs Judicial Reviews when Fianna Fáil’s running the show?

Sadhbh O'Neill nailed it a couple of days ago. These guys never use public transport and none of their buddies do so at best it's an abstraction. At worst it's for "other people" who haven't bought a car yet.

Major public transport projects at risk as Govt priority shifts to roads; funding committed to Galway’s second ring road with “€1bn+” cost Under pressure from rural TDs supporting it, the Government is shifting its transport spending priorities from sustainable transport to road building -- the…

There's no funding to reopen the Waterford-Wexford/Rosslare. The All-Island Rail Review recommended reopening this. It's only been closed since 2010 and is being maintained. Would have been huge for regional development.

Four months after it was promised, we finally have the government's transport investment plan between now and 2030. It's bad. Roads are in, public transport is out. A lot of public transport projects being put on the long-finger to make funding available for new roads.

this is mesmerizing

Excellent piece by Sadhbh o'Neill about the car-centric approach to transport. I have absolutely no doubt that virtually none of our elected reps rely on public transport to go about their daily lives. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

This bus-and-cycle expressway runs directly from Nijmegen station to the university and hospital in the south of the city. People on bikes and buses get there fast without delays, while motor traffic has to take the longer route. Priorities matter. This is what it looks like when a city means it.

Ar ghabháil aduaidh dom thar Stigh Lorgan ′Gus mise 'cur tuairisc mo charranna; Ar chasadh dom anuas ′sea fuaireas a dtuairisc Go raibh maidrín rua dá maoireacht Ó Maidrín rua, rua, rua, rua, rua, An maidrín rua tá dána. An maidrín rua 'na luí sa luachair, Is barr a dhá chluas in airde.

He said "Amen" straight into the drop Lmao Pope Leo threw a rave for an archbishop's 75th birthday this is kind of incredible

it's really fun to try to make collective decisions with your colleagues when you're in the "collective decisionmaking is formally impossible" field

Delighted to see work has started to link the two existing paths in McGraths Field, Knocknacarra. Simple interventions like this can make a big difference at improving accessibility in our communities. Funded through LIS allocations from myself and my colleague Cllr.Lyons.

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs aren’t costs.

Tá ainm dá chuid fén tuillte ag an droichead cloiche sin. Céard é?

5 years since ...

Geataí busanna. Sin leigheas don chóras tinn tráchta i nGaillimh ach níl éinne ag caint futhu. #BusConnects Is féidir linn go leor airgid agus am a chaitheamh ar réiteach iomlán ach an píosa is éifeachtaí den scéim ná na geataí busanna. 1/3

Goedeavond from Utrecht, who today @eiturbanmobility.eu named the most bicycle-friendly city in the world: “What sets Utrecht apart is that it has understood something paramount long before most others, that the goal is no longer to make space for cycling, but to construct the city around cycling.”

Forbidden subgraph earrings - wear a theorem on your ears! Kuratowski's theorem says that a graph is planar if and only if it contains neither a K5 nor a K3,3 as a subgraph. Here are those two forbidden subgraphs. Available at hdsn.us/NE230. #MathSky #mathjewelry #gomath

Áthas an domhan. Glee.

www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm... The binary viewpoint that judicial reviews (JR) of planning decisions are purely good or bad is deeply problematic. JRs can and do serve the public good. They can also be weaponised to delay vital infrastructure. Each JR should be judged on its own merits.

This by xkcd is more on the nose.

Ár nUachtarán💚🇮🇪 🎶 Máirtín O’Connor - Into the New @president.ie

This so much! Parents (usually mothers) in car-centric areas are forced to chauffeur their kids around. It also means they emphasize predictable, scheduled activities (like sports leagues) that cost money. Youth mobility gives kids freedom, saves money, and reduces the unpaid-labor burden on women

Cúis bróide a bheith i m'Éireannach inniú☘️ Tá ríméad ar mo mhaim freisin, níos mó ná orm féin fiú. Cuireann an tUachtarán focail agus filíocht ar rudaí a thuig mo mhaim sa smior. Mothaíonn mé gar do na glúinte a bhí romhainn agus na glúinte atá le teacht. Seo spioraid. Cén toradh a bheidh aici?

"That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital." Noam Chomsky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=duXY... It appears that hockey might have its origins in hurling, brought to Canada by Irish immigrants and adapted to the cold. An bhfuil an scannán iomlán seo le fáil áit ar bith @tg4.bsky.social ?

Prioritising youth mobility is prioritising adult relaxing. When kids can walk/roll safely and independently to SPORTS TRAINING, you can enjoy some peaceful time to yourself. @camogie.bsky.social

We were told the interchange would cost €100 million and solve the congestion and tailbacks. It cost €225 million, and it didn't. The people who were 100% wrong about this – and blew 9 figures of public money on it – have a new suggestion. More lanes. www.independent.ie/regionals/co...

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Gaillimh mar phríomhchathair na hEorpa i gceann cúpla bliain.

Bhí cara liom (as Indreabhán) ar an raidió (Béarla) nuair a bhí muid ≈19 agus dúirt an láithreoir "deacair" léi agus níor thuig sí í mar is "jacker" agus ní "deocair" a dúirt sí. Mar sin, tuigim an ceann seo go pointe áirithe.

"Pariah Carey". Hey @deshocks.bsky.social buy that sub a pint will you please?

Doing something isn’t success. Active-travel infrastructure needs to be safe, wide, and usable — not squeezed beside a canal because nobody will take space from cars. #ReimagineDublin

Tá Catherine Connolly, Uachtarán nua an Stáit, ag tabhairt dúshlán dóibh siúd atá sásta a rá go bhfuil luach teibí leis an nGaeilge ach nach bhfuil misniúil a dhóthain a chinntiú go bhfuil buntáiste ábhartha agus ábharach ag baint léi. Game changer.

Musk won’t stop. It’s time the government gave up on X for good (The Observer), 02 Nov 2025 pressreader.com/article/2821...

Every far-right riot and protest that was tolerated, every racist dog whistle from public reps, every bit of hate and misinformation allowed to spread by social media companies, all led to this moment in Drogheda last night where someone felt emboldened enough to try to burn children alive.

Caithfidh gur féidir iarnród díreach ó Éirinn go Breizh a thógáil. Tuairim is 60 nóiméad ó tír go tír. Le rothar fillte agus uasghrádú iarnróid in Éirinn bheadh tú doras go doras i gceann 5 uaire. www.eirgrid.ie/celticinterc...

The world speed record, which still stands, was set by a train à grande vitesse (TGV) in 2007, when it topped out at 574.8 km/h (357 mph). But commercial operating speeds in #France are 320 km/h.