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SYLVIA THOMPSON

Bike campaigner stages fashion show to highlight the benefits of using two wheels to get around the city

WE WOULD all just hop on our bikes to go to the local shop, cinema, library or post office if Mikael Colville-Andersen, Danish urban mobility expert and owner of the Copenhagen Cycle Chic and Copenhagenize.com blogs, had his way.

Colville-Andersen was in Dublin last week to launch Dublin Cycle Chic, the city’s first cycle fashion show organised by Dublin City Council and the Danish Embassy as part of National Bike Week.

PAMELA NEWENHAM

More than one million people who drive to work each day are to be persuaded to switch to more sustainable forms of transport including car-pooling, walking and cycling.

The Smarter Travel Workplaces Programme, unveiled today, aims to see a quarter of a million workers out of their cars by 2012 to reduce carbon emissions.

At present, almost 57 per cent of workers drive to work, with 90 per cent of vehicles containing only the driver, statistics released by the Department of Transport reveal.

Minister for Transport Noel Dempsey said the programme hopes to assist companies to achieve a 20 per cent reduction in staff car usage.

Its all been coming together for the last few years and now its here! Dublin is a great place to cycle and this summer is going to be the best time to join in with those who have discovered the best way to get around Dublin. 

Dublin Cycling Campaigns top reasons to start cycling again in Dublin this summer:

Cork Cycling Arts Festival invites all artists to submit work for this year’s exhibition. We are seeking a variety of artwork in various media, photography, sculpture, painting and installation, with the general theme: ‘the bicycle and cycling culture’. The exhibition will run in the Unitarian Church, Cork City for the duration of the festival, from 19 - 25 July 2010. Apply online by sending images of proposed work (72 dpi) and contact details to email address below or see website:
 

Video from our friends at London Cycling Campaign on locking your bike!

'How to bring the streets to life'

One of the world’s most innovative urban thinkers shares his ideas on developing a creative city

 

ALAN O'RIORDAN
Mon, May 03, 2010
The notion that urban life is a blur of stress is a mistake, according to a new book on slow living in the capital
A LITTLE WHILE ago, I had a Sunday of low-key amusements. First up was a free noon-time concert of Mozart at the Hugh Lane Gallery. Then I headed north to Parnell Park, there to see the Cork hurlers dispose of Dublin. I got the Dart home in satisfied, contemplative mood, little realising that I enjoyed an exemplary “slow Dublin” day.
Approval for such an itinerary, and many more Dublin diversions, is to be found in Anto Howard’s guidebook for natives, Slow Dublin . Howard takes his queue from the Slow Food movement, the first use of the s-word in a positive sense.  

By Tim O'Brien

A PLANNED GARDA road safety strategy for Dublin is to be geared at protecting vulnerable road users who make up just over 61 per cent of road deaths in the capital.