Hey Folks,

I came across this on the http://www.bromptonbicycle.co.uk website. Over the UK and Northern Ireland they have a Green Transport Plan i.e tax free scheme for bikes.
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Despite the battle the Galway Cycling Campaign faces to get local and central government support, cities elsewhere have a much better systems and forward thinking governmments.

The BBC has a great report from Portland, Oregon, in USA of all places, that realised that builing more roads would simply mean more cars.

The pulled down a motorway.. contrast that with plans in this city.

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Galway Cycling Campaign Monthly Meeting [Please forward to all cyclists]

Ladies and Gents,

The Galway Cyling Campaign will host its monthly meeting next Monday 14th at 8.00 pm.
[We try to hold our Monthly meeting on the second Monday of each month].

The venue is the Galway One World Centre, in the Halls, Quay St [Beside Fat Freddy's restaurant].

The Galway One world centre is on the top floor of the Halls, Quay St [Beside Fat Freddy's restaurant].

http://www.galwayadvertiser.ie/content/index.php?aid=1262

Galway is a death trap for cyclists

Dear Editor,

After years of getting around Galway by foot, bicycle, car and bus, I feel the need to publicise my growing concern. This concern is, in so many words, a fear for my life. Most days I cycle on the city roads, and on almost every occasion I am witness to driving that puts me in immediate bodily danger. I see the same impatience that is evident all over the country and is responsible (along with drink-driving, phone-driving, bravado, tiredness, etc,) for the depressing statistics of carnage we hear and forget, week in week out.

http://www.galwayindependent.com/letters/8077.html

Cyclists should put their energy into lobbying for cycle routes

Dear Editor,

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I am writing this letter as a response to the letter in your column on the 26 July titled �Fear for life as cyclist�.

I am a motorist who lives in Roscommon and commutes to Galway City every weekday. I am by no means anti-cyclist, but it does annoy me the way that cyclists constantly complain about motorists and their apparent disregard for the safety of cyclists.

To be honest, I don’t really have an awful lot of time for blogs.

Most of them consist of people whining about topics they no little about, and are incredibly boring.

This one will be no different.

Its just a place for me to bitch and complain, safe in the knowledge that few people will read and even less will care.

I’ll probably get bored of it as well, but in the meantime I’ll post a