Virtual Public Meeting: Cycling Holidays in Ireland

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Cycling Holidays in Ireland

Virtual Public Meeting: Monday, 14 June 2021 - 8pm
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With many more people holidaying in Ireland this year, there has never been a better time to get off the beaten track and explore the boreens, byways and greenways of Ireland by bike.

Learn about great places to visit and things to do along the way, as well as tips on planning routes, finding nice, quiet roads and packing those panniers!

Our speakers are:
•       Louise Williams, Activist and Cyclist
•       Marion Gaskin, Owner of Irish Cycling Safaris
•       Mairéad Forsythe, Dublin Cycling Campaign Exec Committee member
•       Michelle Hardiman, Volunteer with D12 Bike Bus

More Details Here

Dublin City Proposals for 30 km/h need your support

Dublin City councillors are due to make crucial decisions on speed limits in the City shortly. The whole process has been delayed and we anticipate that the issue may be raised at the Council Meeting on Monday 14th June. We need everybody to contact their local councillors and urge them to support the default 30 km/h speed limit.

You can find your local councillor here and click below to read more details and a sample letter.

Sample Letter and Details Here

Support your local bike bus demand for better cycling infrastructure and join on their cycle to school on Friday 25th June #CycleBusIsProtest.

Dublin City Council have been awarded funding from the National Transport Authority to deliver cycle and scooter parking to schools and sports clubs in Dublin City. If your club or school would like cycle and/or scooter parking, please ask your management to apply! Link here for schools and here for sports clubs.

And if you missed last month's public meeting on Air Quality, Active Travel and Public Health, you can watch it back here!

Visit Dublincycling.com

The 10th birthday edition of the Clonakilty Bicycle Festival is now underway and runs until this Sunday 13th June. It is mainly online and comprises a wonderful mixture of creative events. Highly recommended!

Last September, we launched our Vision for Cycling in Rural Ireland with the eight priorities we believe will enable more people to cycle more often for everyday journeys. We think we have made many changes in the right direction worth celebrating.

Ireland needs to fundamentally redirect transport policy and apply the internationally recognised “avoid-shift-improve” approach to cutting emissions in the sector, according to a new report by the Oireachtas Committee on Environment and Climate Action - well worth checking it out here. It has potentially huge implications for the future of transport in Ireland including active travel.

Visit Cyclist.ie

“The world will need much more cycling if we are to overcome climate change, the most urgent crisis of our times. If we succeed, the 2020s could be the decade when the way we transport ourselves stopped being the problem and became part of the solution.” Well worth checking out The Decade of the Bicycle” article on the ECF website penned by the new President of the European Cyclists’ Federation, Henk Swarttouw.

The Decade of The Bicycle on the ECF's Website