November 15, 2006 One Comment
Hey Folks,
Any idea how long the 6 New Bicycle Stands have been outside the courthouse? They are to the left of the courthouse if you are facing the entrance, close to the Pedestrian Crossing lights.
Oisin
Read more...October 10, 2006 No Comments
Lots of prospective members wonder how the Galway Cycling Campagn works. This document tries to explain how we function, and how stuff gets done.
We are very much a ‘member-driven’ organisation.
This not a group where some leaders decide on policy, and then expect ‘ordinary members’ to do the work.
In the Galway Cycling Campaign, members make their own suggestions as to where we might do some work. If the proposal, no matter how big or small, is within our overall general direction we are happy to support it.
Read more...October 10, 2006 No Comments
Galway Cycling Campaign Monthly Meeting 9th October 2006
Venue: Smokey Joes, @ NUI, Galway
Present:
Alan Burke
Stephane Corlosquet
Stan
Simon Comer
Indie
Shane Foran
Oisin
William
Eoin Marshall
Liam
And many more…
Outcomes:
Website:
Our website Galwaycycling.org is currently a little static.
I set it up a few months back but haven’t done an awful lot with it.
September 19, 2006 No Comments
Galway Cycling Campaign -Feachtas Rothaiochta na Gaillimhe
c/o Galway One World Centre, the Halls, Quay St.,Galway.
Alan Burke 087 2452130
Shane Foran M.Sc. Phone 087 9935993
Press Release – For Immediate release
18th September 2006
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Galway Cycling Campaign to mark Car Free Day.
The Galway Cycling Campaign will mark European Car Free day on Friday 22nd September by distributing information leaflets to the public.
Read more...September 1, 2006 No Comments
Attached below are 3 comprehensive documents about the practice.
To accompany the reading material I would like to suggest the following questions (anyone else can add their own queries and comments to the pot as we proceed):
1. How relevant and applicable are the Brisbane/Australia and San Francisco/USA experiences to Galway/Ireland?
Read more...August 16, 2006 2 Comments
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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August 16, 2006 One Comment
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.
Full r
Read more...August 12, 2006 No Comments
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].
Read more...August 4, 2006 One Comment
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.
Read more...August 4, 2006 No Comments
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.
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