Lorraine D'Arcy

Fantastic contribution. Thanks Ciaran

4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

Car Size

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How much do you bench? 💪 So many groups have been taking the initiative and building benches so that folks waiting for transit have places to wait. These photos came to us from Strong Towns Baton Rouge!

Absolutely. It's great it didn't get into the narrative. The public one anyway. I think the Mary's had that debate angle already destroyed

I can't help wondering what proportion of the spoils/ Gavin votes were just men wanting to have a man to vote for? Is that what they mean when they said there was no one there to represent them? #Áras2025

From a research interview....

"Somebody said to me, road engineers...if they were to build a house, it would be all corridors."

It's a good line, and also probably quite relevant to what we currently prioritise in developing environments to support walking & cycling in urban areas.

Climate Action Mandate View the most recent annual report on how public bodies are performing in relation to the Climate Action Mandate.

This morning I delivered training for SU Sustainability Officers. The resource that gif the best reaction was this @seai-ie.bsky.social tool that records Public Bodies progress in implementing the Climate Action Mandate. Just search for the Uni/public body in the search box! (Better on laptop) 1/2

Now that Oasis have played Croke Park, the nation's attention will turn to the exciting news that The Climate Alarm Clock team will host our first ever live podcast show!

Find us at the @immaireland.bsky.social on Sunday, September 14th at 2.30pm at Earth Rising Festival.

More details to come 👀

two girls with medical masks working in a university lab

🌱 Double Green! 💚 #TUDublinSustainability is thrilled that both the Radiation & Environmental Science Centre and the NanoLab Research Centre have achieved Green #MyGreenLab certification www.tudublin.ie/explore/abou...

Congrats Dr Furong Tian, Prof Fiona Lyng & My Green Lab Coordinator Sarah Maher.

Join us on 15 July at 18:30 in the Patagonia Store in Dublin for an intro to Planetary Health — exploring how climate, social, and political issues impact human health.

Open to all: healthcare workers, students and the public.
#PlanetaryHealth 🌍

Very cool! And great idea for a conference workshop

@ibike.ie bopping their way through @tudublin.bsky.social #Grangorman Campus on their way to @stoneybatterrocks.bsky.social

@tudublinsustain.bsky.social @bgormley.bsky.social

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What an amazing resource!

@bgormley.bsky.social

Let’s fuel health not harm #BanFossilAds

This great video also reminded me of an interesting facet of motonormativity: people can lose 100 hours a year in traffic and never notice; but they have one late train and it's all "Never again - you can't rely on them"

Great sticker 💥

As a parent I love walkable neighbourhoods cause the kids can get places themselves. No big conspiracy, I’m just tired.

On August 7, 2003, the NASA Aqua MODIS instrument acquired this image of Ireland on the first day this summer that most of the island hasn´t been completely obscured by cloud cover. Credit Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC

This year’s St. Patrick’s Day takes place during a challenging time for those working for a greener future.

But as Mary Heglar reminds us, “This planet is the only home we'll ever have. There's no place like it. And home is always, always, always worth it.”

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona daoibh go léir!

He then added, “I grew up in poverty. The wonderful thing about playing outside is that it’s free”. Hear hear! @tomhayesmp.bsky.social

A group of people are lounging in colorful hammocks arranged around a central structure that holds books. They are engaged in reading while sitting in a public space. The setting appears to be a lively urban environment.

A yellow tricycle with a large blue cart in the shape of a small building structure is parked on a cobblestone street. Trees provide shade in the background, and a café can be seen with patrons seated

A mobile bicycle-trailer pop-up library ... with hammocks. Genius.

After I got my driver's license, the bike was dead to me. Fast forward a few decades, add a few trips to the Netherlands, and I returned to two wheels for my physical and mental health.

Bikes don’t fix everything, but active transportation is a medicine that pays dividends in multiple ways.

Assuming your question is rhetorical. But encase it's not... Yes, yes they are!
Aka, going into government ... Gonna win a lot of contracts!

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1km from school & our kids regularly walk solo. Have done since about 6/7yo. Residential area with just 1 road to cross which unfortunately is a rat run. But with lots of others walking along the way I think it's really good for them. Road type context & others walking would be important to consider

Donald Shoup on a bicycle in two photos decades a apart. He is near a parking sign in both and wearing a crocheted sweater.

Rest in peace, Professor Shoup (1938-2025)
We will keep up the good work.

Share your stories and thoughts with the parking reform community here: parkingreform.org/donald-shoup

Spark Skills is back again! Click this link to learn more about class times and to sign up!

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Geraldine Herbert: Cutting speed limits and changing our car-centric culture isn’t about restricting freedom – it’s about creating it Could a city with a similar population to Galway ever reduce road deaths to zero in a single year? It sounds unfeasible, but it can be done.

Pontevedra, Spain, shows shows safer streets & fewer cars lead to thriving cities. My piece in today's
@independent.ie
#roadsafety

“If you invite more cars, you get more cars. If you make more streets better for cars you get more traffic...If you invite people to walk more and use public spaces more, you get more life in the city. You get what you invite.” - Jan Gehl

#StreetsForPeople #DulwichModalShift

What is it about active travel infrastructure that emboldens some of our worst citizens?