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Golden Pedal Awards
Who won in 2010?
Twelve organisations in the Greater Dublin Area entered for the competition. Entrants ranged from hospitals (St. Vincents, Childrens Hospital & Mater) to third level institutions (DIT), public bodies like South Dublin County Council, EPA & OPW and companies like Google, Pfizer, Deloitte, Gift Voucher and Oracle. The trophy was won by The Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT). In the citation the Campaign praised the fact that DIT had really done a lot to encourage employees to leave the car at home and change to commuting by bike.
Each entrant had to complete an on-line questionnaire and points were awarded for each category of response. The key issues that DIT addressed in its promotion of cycling were:
· A top-down commitment to sustainable travel for staff commuting to its various campuses in the City
· A team approach to implementing Smarter Travel measures
· Pool-bikes available for staff use (and students who wish to try cycling before purchasing their own bike)
· A high proportion of staff using bike to commute to campus
· Cycling to work very actively promoted via Smarter Travel Workplaces scheme
· Provision of covered and secure bike parking
· Removal of on-campus car parking spaces in favour of bike parking slots
Dublin Cycling Campaign’s ‘Golden Pedal’ organiser, Sophie Nicoullaud said that “all the entrants deserved praise for the measures that they had implemented to encourage commuting by bike. Organisations are going to have to seriously engage with mobility planning for employees if the government’s target of 10% of commuting journey nationally are to be made by bike by 2020.
‘The Smarter Travel’ policy sets this down and is found here:
http://www.smartertravel.ie/ “
“Every employee who leaves the car at home and takes a bike, or walks to work frees up road space for those commuters who really do have to use their car to get around. The saving on carbon dioxide emissions is huge also – an average of 150 g/km not emitted. Brian Gormley and his colleagues at DIT have shown what steps work”.
DUBLIN CYCLING CAMPAIGN (DCC) ANNOUNCES WINNER OF ‘GOLDEN PEDAL’ COMPETITION 2010 DURING NATIONAL BIKE WEEK
Issued Friday 18 June, embargoed until 13:00 h
The ‘Golden Pedal’ competition is organised by the Dublin Cycling Campaign (www.dublincycling.ie/goldenpedal). On Friday 18 June on "Bike-to-Work-Day", as part of National Bike Week 2010, Dublin Cycling Campaign will award its "Golden Pedal Award" to the organisation that has worked the hardest to promote cycling to work in the past year.
The presentation of the trophy will take place at 19:00 h this evening at Grand Canal Square at a gathering of hundreds of Dublin’s commuting cyclists who will make their way there after work this evening (17:30 h onwards) for a celebration of Dublin’s growing ‘cycling culture’. An evening BBQ plus music is in store for those cyclists who commuted by bike to work today!
Twelve organisations in the Greater Dublin Area entered for the competition. Entrants ranged from hospitals (St. Vincents, Childrens Hospital & Mater) to third level institutions (DIT), public bodies like South Dublin County Council, EPA & OPW and companies like Google, Pfizer, Deloitte, Gift Voucher and Oracle. The trophy has been won by The Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT). In the citation the Campaign praised the fact that DIT had really done a lot to encourage employees to leave the car at home and change to commuting by bike.
Each entrant had to complete an on-line questionnaire and points were awarded for each category of response. The key issues that DIT addressed in its promotion of cycling were:
· A top-down commitment to sustainable travel for staff commuting to its various campuses in the City
· A team approach to implementing Smarter Travel measures
· Pool-bikes available for staff use (and students who wish to try cycling before purchasing their own bike)
· A high proportion of staff using bike to commute to campus
· Cycling to work very actively promoted via Smarter Travel Workplaces scheme
· Provision of covered and secure bike parking
· Removal of on-campus car parking spaces in favour of bike parking slots
Dublin Cycling Campaign’s ‘Golden Pedal’ organiser, Sophie Nicoullaud said that “all the entrants deserved praise for the measures that they had implemented to encourage commuting by bike. Organisations are going to have to seriously engage with mobility planning for employees if the government’s target of 10% of commuting journey nationally are to be made by bike by 2010. ‘The Smarter Travel’ policy sets this down and is found here:
http://www.smartertravel.ie/ “
“Every employee who leaves the car at home and takes a bike, or walks to work frees up road space for those commuters who really do have to use their car to get around. The saving on carbon dioxide emissions is huge also – an average of 150 g/km not emitted. Brian Gormley and his colleagues at DIT have shown what steps work”.
ENDS
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Lecturer,
University of Dublin,
School of Biochemistry & Immunology,
Trinity College,
Dublin 2,
Ireland
Tel. No. +353-1-896 1613 (W); +353-1-269 4210 (H); +353-87-2314 613 (M)
FAX No. +353-1-677 2400
Coordinator for JF/SF Pharmacy; Erasmus coordinator; School Safety Officer
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MEDIA CONTACTS
Dr. Mike McKillen
Spokesperson for DCC
087 2314 613 (M)
01 896 1613 (W)
Sophie Nicoullaud
Organiser of ‘Golden Pedal’ competition
085-704 7290 (M)
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