Number of cyclists killed on Irish roads doubles in three years, as safety group calls for “sustained political commitment” to protect vulnerable road users
https://road.cc/content/news/number-irish-cyclists-killed-doubles-three-years-317481
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Wonder if it has to do with the higher numbers and the fact that a lot of them are on e-bikes that can go very fast.
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I ride a motorbike, so, in a good position to comment from a somewhat neutral position..
Car drivers are asleep at the wheel.
Cyclists have a death wish.
The are a mixture of factors – cycle infrastructure is improved but still patchy and far from complete, and both driver and cyclist behaviour is often very not very good. There needs to be a big education drive and enforcement of the existing rules of the road, including that red lights mean stop, not go!
The government is doing its best to resist the reduction in speed limits 🤦♂️.
Cycling lanes? The biggest taxpayers wasted founds ever as almost nobody use them⚠️⚠️⚠️
There are some poor drivers around but cyclists and ebike users aren’t helping themselves at times either. Often times I see them and they aren’t even wearing a hi vis which is the first thing I’d look for if I was going out for a walk. People are taught to be defensive drivers but people on bikes need to be too. Too many on the road with chips on their shoulders which you can’t legislate for but personal safety should be first in the mind.
Irelands cancerous car dependency from lack of investment in PT and safe active travel and its consequences.
And I hate people defending cars and laying all blame on the driver, insisting there’s absolutely no responsibility towards the concept of anyone being able to drive a 2 tonne chunk of metal that goes 100km/h around people walking and cycling. Cars do not belong around people end of story.
You could be safest driver in the world but you’re still prone to human error and cars are in no way forgiving in the capacity for damage they can cause.
Before people start banging on about high vis and lights, I can’t even think of one cyclist death that happened at night and as someone who cycles daily i keep track of all cycling accidents
Ireland and cycling don’t match at all completely no infrastructure for cycling.
Got downvoted in another post here about road traffic accidents… but there is a direct correlation between the economic landscape and road deaths. Since we are in the biggest cost of living crisis this isn’t surprising… simple terms, costs go up…traffic deaths also rises. Folk have less money to maintain their vehicles, ie driving on worn tyres and more people walking & cycling due to costs, more people with second jobs ie delivery drivers on bikes, more people driving longer and further for work..
Just back up and enforce speed limits more. Why are there no speed cameras in towns when we know people late at night or early in the morning will blast through them at 80 sometimes? Why is there no average speed camera on the N7, M50 and roads like that when we know people routinely break the speed limit on these roads?
There are a lot of inconsiderate drivers on Irish roads
In saying that, I’ve had enough cyclists and worse, electric scooter users try go 50/50 with me while driving. Idk mate, I’m fairly sure my 1 ton of Japanese steel is gonna win that battle unless you’ve got a vibranium cycle suit
We can talk about infrastructure and education all we like but as a cyclist and driver; a lot of cyclists are fucking idiots and the same with drivers. The sheer amount of incompetence on display on our roads is mind boggling. It’s lobotomies we need
Segragate vulnerable road users from cars ffs.
“Gardaí carried out over 2,100 checkpoints in the week to Sunday, 28 December.
Some of the top speeds detected included a driver in Limerick driving at 207km/h in a 100km/h zone, another driving at 167km/h in an 80 km/h zone in Laois, and one driver doing 118km/h in a 50km/h on Dublin’s North Circular Road.
Garda Superintendent Liam Geraghty said 149 drivers were arrested in the week from Monday, 22 December for driving under the influence of an intoxicant, which can be either alcohol or drugs.
So far this month that figure stands at 600 arrests, while Supt Geraghty said 43% of those tested positive for drugs, predominately cocaine and cannabis.”
And somehow people here will still blame cyclists!
I cycle and drive. The older I get the more afraid I am to be out on the roads on my bike. I get close passed at least once every single ride. That eventually wears on you as eventually the luck will run out. I can hear cars come behind me and I know they haven’t even slowed down, I know there’s a car coming the other direction and all I can do is hold on and hope for the best as the force their way past me into the oncoming car. Drivers see a cyclist and feel like they must immediately pass them.
I do understand so many bikes don’t help themselves especially in towns and cities, running red lights and also the food delivery riders who appear to obey no rules of the road.
I would say that rarely would a driver in a car get home and think wow I was lucky there that cyclist could have killed me. The other way around however is almost every ride, at least in my experience.
Small figures double easily and data illiterate people draw massive conclusions.
Bicycles and cars shouldn’t be sharing the same roads in busy areas, it’s inherently dangerous. There’s a reason cars don’t drive on train tracks.
More cyclist specific news posted as if it’s from a major news outlet.
That said, the numbers don’t lie.
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Yeah but cycle lanes “aren’t wanted by people” and I really like parking my €80k hire purchase car wherever I like so…
Yet Every time a bike lane is installed people give out. There’s literally lives at stake
I had to stop cycling due to the danger on roads. Its not worth it anymore imo
We need figures highlighting the number of cyclists killed by motorists. Number of pedestrians killed by motorists. Number of motorists killed by motorists.
I think the problem is motorists. And yet the only outrage I keep seeing is the ebikes are speeding…
Motorist caught doing 200 in a 60 zone? Silence. No calls to crush the car… But an e-bike going fast and the entire public goes mental…
It’s because of electric scooters. Obviously.
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Drivers in cars & distracted on phones predominately leading the increase.
Can we please invest more in segregated safe active travel corridors. Especially Invest more in urban areas where there are more cyclists and an opportunity to take more cars off the roads.
From a cork city perspective I see the success of greenways listed below and wish the could be replicated across the city
1. Marina – beautiful and huge usage
2. Curaheen – connects MTU to UCC, prob not the same volume of users
3. Black rock to passage greenway, huge numbers and connects many areas
4. Wider Tramore valley park – connects a huge population but the park itself needs more investment
I wish they could do more to connect big urban areas, schools, colleges, employment area.
Like;
1. Ballincollig to UCC
2. Douglas to rafeen
3. Tramore valley park to viaduct
I am firm believer in, built it and they will come
There is a serious cultural gap between a growing number of drivers and cycling in this country. As more and more people depend on driving and choose to drive everywhere, the attitude towards people cycling is getting worse. More impatience, more aggression, more dangerous behaviour. The only way to change this is to build the infrastructure and crucially clamp down on bad driver behaviour. Speed cameras in towns and cities, red light cameras and a properly functioning portal for reporting dangerous drivers.
More greenways would help, more people cycling could just keep off the roads.
Let me see what’s wrong on the roads:
-car users; on the phone, distracted, not doing proper observations, driving the wrong way up a one way street (why do I see this so often?)
-non car users; on the phone distracted, no lights or visibility, disregard for common sense
-The roads; poorly designed, often narrow with bike lanes that appear and disappear on a whim
Yeah nah nothing wrong with/on the roads must be the cyclists causing all the issues.