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Brigid ag Rithallaigh

@brigidagrith.bsky.social
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Occasionally shilling for Big Cycling and fond of running, which is a big part of my next project -The 7.5 min city

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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Excellent piece by @gerherbert.bsky.social in the Independent on Ireland's rising pedestrian death toll on our roads.
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Traveling at 50kph between stops vs at 30kph usually results in no time savings but it does make the road dangerous for other users especially vulnerable road users. If there is no benefit to drivers why is it important to maintain a status quo ?
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
It's feels like a monumental struggle to make our roads safer. Introduction of Traffic calming and speed limits enforcement is met with anything from ambivalence to hostility. The q should be flipped- why is it important to drivers to drive fast between sets of traffic lights or stopped traffic.
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
It's not perfect but it's absolutely fine.. the only slightly annoying thing is when you go to return and there is someone there with three sacks of returns😂🙈
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
If you weren't sold on the idea of fixed speed cameras then let me sell you this.. The number of cars observed by Crumlin road traffic counter travelling over 50kph dropped from ~ 18% to 9% on the August Bank holiday Sunday and Monday 2024 to 2025. @dublincycling.bsky.social @garda.ie
A table and chart depicting the August bank holiday weekend 2024 and 2025 observed traffic speeds on Crumlin road
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I can't even begin to imagine the loss and sadness being felt by these families. My heart goes out to them. 💔 www.rte.ie/news/munster...
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'Shock' as second child dies on roads in recent days
The town of Killarney and county of Kerry are in shock following the death of a boy who was struck by a tractor last night, a local councillor has said.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Maybe everyone can see it now, but the world's richest people have tanked it all to restock assets and get liquid after years of illegally playing with funny money. They used "the wokeness" as a cudgel and it worked. The next Disney princess WILL be white, as we all eat beans under the highway.
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Verona Murphy to put forward a motion of no confidence in self amid rows on independent group playing both sides.
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I BIKE Dublin @ibikedublin.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
We really need to move on from using plastic wands as cycling infrastructure in Dublin.
Photo of a cycle lane in Rathmines Dublin with five plastic wands which have been flattened and are lying at different angles along the edge of the cycle lane, with one partially obstructing the lane.
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Hilarious that no matter where in the world there is a rejigging of resources & priority away from private cars towards mass transit or active travel there is a predictable backlash which starts with mass transit is stinky, unsafe and then quickly progressed to mass transit is for the elites.
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
All hail the sun 😎🙌 We are sorry we angered you.
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
The SUV pickup he was driving when broke the red light was travelling at around 35-37kph. Before you even consider that the driver broke a red light and that these trucks have hideous blind spots -The vehicle's size and mass make it lethal to pedestrians and cyclists even at slower speeds
A photo of a Ford Ranger Wildtrak- the model of SUV Pickup driven by Moyinhan through a  red light and struck 8 y.o Andre Ladeiro
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
'....for him my son was only a leaf, and probably he just stopped because his tyre got deflated.' 😥 www.rte.ie/news/ireland... Gigantic SUVs need to go.
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Man jailed for dangerous driving causing death of boy
A father, whose young son was killed while out cycling after a driver failed to stop at a pedestrian crossing controlled by a red light, has said that he will never get over the "violence of the impac...
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
they must be ramping up for Marrowbone lane phase 2
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Love this!
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🎶🎶 I'm still standin' better than I ever did
A screenshot of a tweet from 2021 showing a 80kph speed sign on a rural road in Western Ireland The same signpost as the first image 4 years later
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Hey now thats X/Twitter rhetoric..over here on bluesky we recognize car people are people too😄
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Also walking and cycling is a form of transportation and not just a recreational activity.
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
The most confusing element of these changes is that Ger has almost single-handedly been the main person to inform the public of these pretty significant changes. 👏 Where is public awareness campaign or tv advert etc?
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The heat logs briquettes - they are some sort of compressed sawdust/wood combination.
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
People who bought turf can still burn briquettes and store them in their shed as would have done eith turf. Briquettes burn hotter and produce less smoke. And people who cut their own turf are still allowed to-only commerical turf cutting has been stopped
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
(When you hate Nazis but love puns)
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Regina Burstein @mplsfietser.bike · 29/01/2025
Car dependency has been so normalized that most people don't know that putting a child into a car is more dangerous than putting them on a bike. In fact, car trips are the most dangerous activity that most children partake in.
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Saoirse McHugh @saoirsemc.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The response to the electricity outages we need is serious action on emissions, changes to our planning system, and a quicker rollout of renewables everywhere, not burn more turf or whatever
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I take your point. However, the eMPTy CyclELANE arguers are mainly railing against the reallocation of space from private car use to a cyclelane or footpath. They don't really care about the existence of empty remote roads.
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
It's worth mentioning that the quality of the infrastructure can be as much of a determining factor as people's physical abilities. And arguments against allocating adequate space and funds to high quality infrastructure impacts more acutely on those can't use bad infrastructure.
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
I'm standing on a platform for a tram line. I'm making a point about people who say cycle lanes and footpaths are empty and take a photo of an empty cyclelane- usually with the expressed aim to undermine funding to pedestrian and cycling infrastructure.
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
There is a very nice segregated cycle lane on the other side of the canal. (The video was taken from the bridge in this image(
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A good reminder that cycle lanes and footpaths don't appear congested as they (mostly) allow people to move through quickly and efficiently. Video taken from charlemont luas stop on a rainy morning.
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
You know it's a bad day outside when the cat reverses back in he window.
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
I was walking past the other day and it's just so ridiculous it's comical
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
IMPORTANT STUDY: “On average, the implementation of 30 km/h speed limits in European cities demonstrated a 23%, 37% & 38% reduction in road crashes, fatalities & injuries respectively. Lower speed limits also yielded environmental benefits.” www.nrso.ntua.gr/review-of-ci...
Title page of study
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This is really important. The main thing that makes it hard to achieve nature and green integrated in cities isn’t density of buildings or density of people — it's density of cars. And the more well-designed density of people and buildings that you achieve, the fewer cars you’ll need or want.
Tree-lined street in Yaletown, Vancouver
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Shamim Malekmian @shamimmalekmian.eurosky.social · 02/12/2024
Stephen Donnelly showing up at Soc Dems headquarters pretending he never quit
A scene from Seinfeld where George Costanza goes back to work after quitting. He says: "what's quit? Who quit"
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Brigid ag Rithallaigh @brigidagrith.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Alrighty, so what's the mood here? Threads seems to be some sort of absurd storytime vibe and Mastodon was like learning how to play a not fun board game. Is this a safe space to argue with strangers?
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