Promoting and providing opinion on safer environment for cycling through Ni Cycles
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9 Jul 2020
This is clearly a road improvement scheme, disguised also as an active travel scheme.
This is just another example of @deptinfra showing that it is unwilling to learn from their mistakes.
The road has a width of 17m (including sidewalks) and this is the best it can done?
8 Jul 2020
The O’Neill Road, Newtownabbey is set to benefit from a 1km resurfacing scheme along with upgraded facilities for pedestrians and cyclists.
Details at infrastructure-ni.gov.uk/new…
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30 Jun 2020
On one of the few projects to improve walking and cycling safety, the focus of this paper is the delay the work might cause. Priorities.
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16 Jun 2020
It's remarkable what can be done so quickly, when there's political will.
✅ Gatekeeper wands on entry
✅ Some form of protection, with planters and wands
➖ Acess is not that straightforward
❌ Lack of gatekeeper wands on exit
❌ Circuitous route
❌ No bus stop bypass
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16 Jun 2020
🅿️3 open air car parks cinema's multi storey car park
💲 businesses, with hotel, ormeau baths, Tesco and cinema
🏡 Residential
Most of the cycle route goes through acess roads, which should already be welcoming to vulnerable users.
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16 Jun 2020
🏁 Conclusion
1️⃣ Decent Quality
2️⃣ Provides a link from Botanic-City Center
3️⃣ Access could be better
4️⃣ Protection seems ok, it's difficult to understand the lack of gatekeeper wands on exits
5️⃣ It's a band aid, good enough for the pop up cycle paths scheme
Ride on 🚲
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27 May 2020
This is not a missed opportunity, it's a demonstration of the systemic failure on the approach to cycle infra.
27 May 2020
Resurfacing was successfully completed on the Sydenham Bypass and adjacent cycle lane over the weekend between Dee Street and George Best Belfast City Airport
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13 Feb 2020
The Travel Survey for Northern Ireland 2016-2018 is out and it continues to show that the work @deptinfra has carried out so far, has been negligible towards improving active travel habits.
@NicholaMallon better needs to be done and quickly.
infrastructure-ni.gov.uk/pub…
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7 Feb 2020
The difference in wording is staggering.
People cycling are reckless and dangerous, people driving unworthy vehicles are being dealt with.
Wonder why?
x.com/cpo_taxi/status/121910…
7 Feb 2020
On the other hand, @NicholaMallon has already announced resurfacing/road improvement schemes with no apparent improvements for walking and cycling that amount to more than £4.3 million.
4 Feb 2020
The @niassembly has rightly declared a climate crisis, but it’s business as usual as far as managing travel habits in Belfast. A city-wide road diet needs to happen within the next 2 years if Belfast is to make a genuine mark on fighting climate breakdown. bikefast.org/belfast-road-di…
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14 Jan 2020
Extremely disappointing. Priorities are still completely backwards.
14 Jan 2020
There are plenty of cons to. Especially when there are other less expensive options that bring more value to the city, e.g. Belfast cycle network.
Let alone the problem that will remain for future generations with a US style highway connections right in the city centre.
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12 Jan 2020
And a cycle network will benefit the city more! Our health sector alone stands to benefit to £6 for every £1 invested. At best YSI will deliver only £2.33 per pound.
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9 Jan 2020
This is so true.
It just gets worse when even some police forces and government agencies instigate this victim blaming culture.
It gives conviction to who demands for Personal Protection Equipment, endangers the lives of the most vulnerable and prevents justice from happening.
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3 Jan 2020
"As Fred Kent, the founder of Project for Public Spaces, likes to say, "If you plan for cars and traffic, you get tested
and traffic. If you plan for people and places, you get people and places." " - Walkable City Rules from Jeff Speck. Time to wake up @deptinfra @belfastcc
26 Dec 2019
More appalling work from @deptinfra. Yet, for Alfred st cycle path the was no money for much needed wands 💸
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18 Dec 2019
Not endorsing illegal actions, here's the facts:
1️⃣ People break red lights at same rate either cycling or driving. Yet doing in a car is far more dangerous to other users, which leads to
2️⃣ Pedestrian KSI in pavements are more of a result by people driving than cycling
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18 Dec 2019
To reduce car dependency, negative impact actions on car usage need to occur, such as, but not limited:
💥 Reduce arterial roads to one lane per direction
💥 Implement filtered permeability in residential areas
💥 Forbid cars in city centre core
💥 Congestion charge
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18 Dec 2019
High Level Policies
🚶♀️Create more mixed usage areas so people can live/work/shop in same places
🚴♀️ Deploy £20 per head of population every year to design/create/maintain cycle infrastructure
🚴♂️ Reduce time for designs to be implemented (Belfast cycle network is in draft > 2y)
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18 Dec 2019
Likely Improvements
🏭 Reduced air pollution, which kills thousands every year
⚕️ Decreased impact on NHS for diseases that could be reduced through everyday exercise
💷 Boost to economy, with plenty of new opportunities, people walking/cycling spend rate is slightly higher
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