Families from Tivoli, Corrig, Cualanor & Crosthwaite calling for urgent action to improve safety for children walking/cycling
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192 children under the age of 9 in just 1 year 😞
"Children more likely to be playing with their friends outside the front door, cycling close to home, to school, GAA training"
This is the case for change
It was inspiring to visit Grangegorman & see their modal filter
- reduced through traffic
- kids can walk & cycle safely
- reduced congestion & pollution
Bollards flexible- emergency vehicles can drive over them unimpeded 🚨
Real sense of community & safety at school pickup
Finally
@CormacDevlin
has come out and confirmed what we all knew. He is opposing the active travel scheme in Dun Laoghaire, 20million euro from the NTA, for safer streets
Why? To ensure motorists aren't inconvenienced and to pick up a few votes
Pathetic
@fiannafailparty
School run on Tivoli Rd this morning
Teenager cycling to school unable to cycle down Tivioli Road, forced to dismount and go onto the pavement
Not safe, not fair. Protected infrastructure needed urgently
👀 Do you do realise that two of your councillors are voicing their intention to oppose the main active travel scheme in Dún Laoghaire?!
@JustinMoylan
@michaelclark99
It's
#BikeWeek
. Cycling is on the increase in Ireland. But our infrastructure needs to keep up. Segregated cycle lanes lead to safer & more frequent cycling. Meaning less deaths & less cars. €1 million per day is invested in active travel projects. Let's get more people cycling.
Cllr Clark would rather lose 20 million euro in funding from the National Transport Authority for this project, rather than make cars drive an extra 5min to their destination 🙄
Idiotic attitude shows lack of imagination & lack of consideration to everyone except motorists
I am also worried that the removal of through-traffic on Tivoli Road will have major implications for traffic across the entire county.
A full Part 8 public consultation will run from 2nd November until 14th December.
The consultation will open at .
@IrishCycle
This paragraph is extremely poignant- pre-school children, who are so vulnerable, were given high viz on Child Safety Day
The onus should be on drivers and those who hold up active travel safe infrastructure at local council level
Finally took the plunge 🚴♀️and bought an e-bike today from Mike's Bikes
Took it for a spin on the Coastal Mobility Route - absolutely incredible - Fair play to
@geraghty_conor
and the
@dlrcc
team 🌊☀️
😨
8.42am, walking a 5 year old to school
Data shows there are c350 pedestrians & children between 8-10am at this one point on the road - likely to be double or triple that if rest of road added
Would a modal filter help? Any suggestions or advice welcome 🙏
#LTN
#saferstreets
Dún Laoghaire councillors rip off the Irish taxpayer
These 4 councillors made it clear from the beginning that they would vote against this active travel project yet went on free trips to Copenhagen & Utrecht 💰
Utterly shameless
A lot of people like
@JustinMoylan
saying that speed bumps could be placed on Tivoli Rd instead of a modal filter
This video, taken today on Glenageary Upper, shows why this idea won't work
Cars ignore them. A modal filter will be the only way of improving safety on Tivoli Rd
Tivoli Road is the main road connecting three schools. There are a lot of children walking, cycling, scooting. The congestion, like in this photo, increases the risk of a child getting injured or killed. Reducing the volume of cars means reducing the risk of injury or death
13,000 cars, 5000 trucks per DAY on Tivoli Road - which connects 3 schools & has no safe place for children to scoot/walk/cycle
Increased congestion
Increased risk
We need
#saferstreets
DM to get involved
Where to even start with this? 😩 8.30am today on Tivoli Rd
This is right outside a primary school!
Too much traffic, no walking/cycling infrastructure
@dlrcc
are meeting us to help find solutions
@robertburns73
@geraghty_conor
would Low Traffic Neighbourhood help here?
This 👇
A safe haven for children and families to walk and scoot
A connection between Cualanor/Honey Park and town
A safe passage to & from St Joseph's/the Harold
Now to be made into a 2 way road for the 51 cars planned for this new development 😔
SIGN OUR PETITION!
We are petitioning DLRCC to address the safety issues on Tivoli Road and take urgent action to make it a safer street for everyone
Link 👇🏼
Please sign! 🙏
A small proportion of very loud, car obsessed people rule the roost and some councillors give in to them, in order to keep their seat
Given that 2 CHILDREN have died in 24h, any councillor that votes against safe active travel, should be named and shamed
Basically “I know your child would like to cycle to school, but please think of the motorists who like to drive really fast”. 😒
Must be infuriating for those councillors who try to stand up for their local residents’ safety, to be met with such disregard.
@dlrcc
@MichaelMDowling
made a great suggestion re Christmas and pedestrianisation. It could be amazing: Stalls on the street, mulled wine, music. Think of that!
@smytho
@tomkivlehan
@kruddock
@SupportLivingSt
@greenparty_ie
Thank you, Minister Smyth. This proposal has the opportunity to make the area safer for children who walk and cycle. The before and after images adjacent to each other really show the difference that the project can make.
#LivingStreets
in
@dlrcc
will be voted on, on 11th March. 2018 Cormac Devlin would have been a great ally for active travel and safer cleaner streets - alas he deleted this tweet, trying to cover his (cycle) tracks, while encouraging councillors to vote no with
@JustinMoylan
Safety for pedestrians and cyclists on Tivoli Rd continues to be a big worry for locals. Thank you
@DLR
for taking our concerns seriously and undertaking monitoring on the road this month
Important new video from
@dlrcc
shows plans to make area safer & greener for all. Includes much-needed modal filter on Tivoli Rd. A lot of research & modelling has gone into finding a solution that benefits all streets
Living Streets Dún Laoghaire aims to explore options for sustainable mobility, public realm improvements, making streets safer & greener, and connecting communities.
Watch the video to learn more:
@mcodublin
@jbbarryeng
#DLRLivingStreets
#LivingStreets
We fully support Living Streets, particularly the modal filter on Tivoli Road, which will reduce through-traffic by 49%, making the road and area safer for all
Really good videos on how people will get from A to B in the link below 👇🏼
We are showing the difficulties faced by families and children walking & cycling on Tivoli & Corrig, both during the week + at weekends
@dlrcc
We need safe infrastructure: a one way street with protected cycle lane
E.g: school run at
@StjosephsNS1
nowhere for bikes on the road
@FHmediastuff
Horrific. This has to stop. In
@dlrcc
we have investment from the NTA to implement living streets - safe and active travel. Any councillor that opposes this scheme will be named and shamed here
13,000 cars, 5000 trucks per DAY on Tivoli Rd - which connects 3 schools & has no safe place for children to scoot/cycle
and now this👇
an apartment block with 51 car spaces, increasing congestion, increasing risk & decreasing chances of implementing safe infrastructure for kids
Some great news from the 2023 Walking and Cycling Index.
Huge support in Dublin for Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) with 82% support / 6% against.
Twice as many people with disabilities are cycling versus 2021 (17% versus 8%)
@LorraineHallFG
We are appealing to councillors to prioritise the health and well being of the people that live here, not the Dalkey folks who want to drive their SUVs in a straight line
Superb proposal to make our streets safer and more liveable for children and families.
The benefits to the community can clearly be seen here - these benefits far outweigh the minor inconvenience of having to drive an extra 5min around the modal filters
"Living Streets Dún Laoghaire" is proposing a number of modal filters. Residents of Knocknashee have provided feedback on how their area was impacted by these filters.
Watch this video to learn more now!
#dlrActiveTravel
@mcodublin
Here is the link for
#LivingStreets
consultation form. It includes modal filters, pedestrianisation and traffic calming.
It will make our community safer for pedestrians and cyclists, and create a vibrant community. Please fill one out 🙏
You are all for road safety for schools - great! Now we can expect you to vote in favour of Living Streets, to make the school commute around Tivoli Road safer for children walking and cycling
Thanks Councillor!
An excerpt of my comments from last Monday Dún Laoghaire Area Committee meeting on the need for a new safe crossing in Hollypark.
Public consultation will begin in the spring and we hope that a solution will be in place for the next academic year.
Is this some sort of joke? Because in Dun Laoghaire right now, the Fianna Fail councillors are openly obstructing and voting against an active travel scheme, which is funded by the NTA.
This is gaslighting at best.
Get your house in order, Fianna Fail!
Ministers
@EamonRyan
and
@JackFChambers
joined
@NTAActiveTravel
today to announce €290m in funding for walking and cycling infrastructure in 2024
The Active Travel Investment Programme 2024 will fund around 800 projects across the country 👩🦽🚶♂️🚴♂️
🔗
Are
@fiannafailparty
for active and safe travel or not?
Because in Dun Laoghaire right now, two of your councillors
@JustinMoylan
@michaelclark99
are opposing and voting against an NTA project to the tune of 20million.
So which is it??
Delighted to officially open a new safe route to school & active travel project in Cobh for pupils at Scoil losaef Naofa, St. Mary's NS & Coláiste Muire.
This investment will make a real difference for the local pupils by making it safer & easier to walk & cycle to school 🚲👫🎒
@TomLyonsBiz
@HSELive
It's very concerning that a staff member from the Tivoli Rd office wrote an email opposing an Active Travel scheme on behalf of the HSE. The email has made its way on to Facebook, via one of the most vocal opponents to the scheme itself (David girvan)
Time for change. The small and very vocal minority who shout & scream, cannot be allowed to hold things up any longer
#LivingStreets
has been designed & proposed for Dún Laoghaire
@dlrcc
Hoping our councillors do not give in to the minority who obstruct change & halt progression
❣️Over 40 Parisien school streets created each year.
When they look this beautiful, isn’t it likely people want their street to be a school street, even if they don’t have a school? 😍
@LorraineHallFG
To quote
@LeoVaradkar
: "Local Authorities cannot have 'a la carte' relationship with government". Here's trusting DLRCC Councillors will vote in support of Living Streets in line with FG's Program for Government's transport policy.
@MaryFayneFG
This would've went from next to our house all the way to our children's school. Give 100s of kids a safe & healthy journey to school. The culture of objecting in this country is sickening. Stopping progress over fear of change.
Serious injuries to cyclists, particularly children, on roads far higher than official Garda data shows
Just because you dont read about it in the news, it doesn't mean that there it doesn't occur! Too many children injured on our roads
It's been quite the 24h for DLRs objector in chief
@CormacDevlin
-emails to scupper a current active travel project
-whilst being on the government's climate change committee
-previously tweeted calling for Dutch cycle lanes
-history of opposing all active travel schemes in DLR
This looks fantastic! Great to see improvements in the public realm in Dún Laoghaire. Looking forward to seeing more of this and especially
#LivingStreets
in the coming years
The new play structure has been installed in Myrtle Square. It is a 3 storey tower containing agility challenges, a fire pole and cork screw slide. This structure will be complimented by 5 play units along Convent lane and a calisthenics area. Play is a central element
#dlrparks
The absolute state of these people.
And on the same day that 3 people lost their lives on Irish roads, one a 9 year old boy who was struck by a car. Selfish, obstructive and tone deaf
@jackfchambers
Great to hear you supporting measures to make roads safer. In Dun Laoghaire Rathdown a consultation is taking place to make our communities greener and safer for pedestrians and cyclists. Pur local TD is
@CormacDevlin
Cllrs will vote...
2 children in a week. Devastating
We are appealing to
@dlrcc
@robertburns73
to please start making Tivoli/Corrig safe
When roadworks are over & pandemic ends, our road will be a congested death trap for children
3 schools on the stretch of road
Inaction is not good enough
A week ago an 11 year girl was killed while riding her bike in Kerry.
Today a four year old boy was killed crossing the road in a housing estate.
Stop the child murder.
#Stopdekindermoord
The last image is particularly poignant and shows the reasons why Living Streets is so important: safety, health and well being.
@CormacDevlin
@CarrollJennifer
@smytho
@RBoydBarrett
This once in a life time opportunity needs your support
@philipnolan1
@dlrcc
Access to DL isn't closed off. Through traffic is. The congestion on Tivoli Rd is making it dangerous for children walking and cycling. The living streets will make the area safer and greener.
A collision tracker has been launched by Dublin Inquirer, which lets you input the location, type, and cause of collisions or near misses for cyclists and pedestrians. It also lets you highlight hazardous areas
@EoinKCostello
Cleaner air, more trees, more space for people to walk and cycle. Yet this group feel its more important for them to be able to drive in a straight line. And now we have Mairead Toibin leading the charge for a few votes. Pathetic
@Dept_Transport
@EamonRyan
@jackfchambers
@NTAActiveTravel
Is this some sort of joke? Because in Dun Laogbaire right now, the Fianna Fail councillors are openly obstructing and voting against an active travel scheme which is funded by the NTA.
This is gaslighting at best.
Get your house in order, Fianna Fail!
He should have slowed up or waited until we got our child into the car. Man was in his 50s -old enough to know better
We need a change in mindset
-Prioritise pedestrians, esp children
-Safe infrastructure
-Longer "green man" at crossings
Sustainable, safe change
@davidmcw
@dlrcc
It was such a lovely afternoon, in Myrtle Square, seeing all the children playing together, and the Christmas music gave a lovely air to the place. Brilliant ❤️
@CormacDevlin
It's great to see you supporting party policy on active travel. Living Streets will deliver a healthier, safer, and more community focused town for the people of Dun Laoghaire
@DarraghOBrienTD
@LorraineHallFG
@HSELive
It's very concerning that a staff member from the Tivoli Rd office wrote an email opposing an Active Travel scheme on behalf of the HSE. The email has made its way on to Facebook, via one of the most vocal opponents to the scheme itself (David Girvan)
@IrishCycle
So delighted to see the 15min neighbourhood included for Dún Laoghaire Rathdown. This will be a brilliant initiative in improving health, safety and community in the area
On Patrick St in DL, putting the 4 year old in the car for a 2h trip
A car comes tearing up the road, sees the child, continues speeding. We're forced to shut the door & push her into the side of the car
Driver then yells out the window "YOU SHOULD HAVE WAITED TILL I PASSED"
@SocDemsDL
Heard this today:
"This project will build a vibrant, healthy community where the air is cleaner & we can all connect
How people think that their right to drive in a straight line is more important, is actually unbelievable"
Keep up the positivity
@SocDemsDL
@OConnorOisin
Innovation - great to see!
Please bring home ideas on how we can create a safe, sustainable Tivoli Road that encourages play, safe streets and a healthy community. All ideas welcome!
@Marco2kane
@dlrcc
@JustinMoylan
It's been quite the 24h for DLRs objector in chief
@CormacDevlin
-emails scuppering a current active travel project
-whilst on the government committee for climate change
-previously tweeted and called for cycle lanes
-he has just deleted said tweet
Last weekend on Tivoli Rd
Child stopped to let a cyclist by who had to mount the pavement because there was no room on the road
The car moved out, only possible as the rd is one way due to current roadworks
Continued engagement with
@dlrcc
@robertburns73
to make rd safe 🙏
Also for our councillor, a great reminder that proposed changes often generate mixed reactions at the start, but people are usually much more united down the line when they see the benefits…
Superb proposal to make our streets safer and more liveable for children and families.
The benefits to the community can clearly be seen here - these benefits far outweigh the minor inconvenience of having to drive an extra 5min around the modal filters
@OConnorOisin
@HSELive
could someone please clarify the email correspondence from your staff member at Tivoli Rd, opposing an active travel scheme? Concerning, and it's full of misinformation
In response
@glutenfreeMark
@OneCumberland
couldn't add this under the chat, this is a video of a car trying to drive the wrong way down Patrick St which I stopped & had to argue the point that he was going the wrong way
They need to be de prioritised, pedestrians made safer