Month: August 2006

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, � 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