A member of the Irish parliament says the country should make high-visibility jackets compulsory for all pedestrians and bicyclists
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Ireland has a big infrastructure problem, that's for sure. If you live anywhere between Limerick and Dublin, well good luck getting around without a car. It's amazing how a country that'd be in an ideal position to have year round acceptable temps for cycling, barely any hills to speak of, and no extreme weather excuses either to keep up transit infra, is so regressive that they chose to go the route of 70s North America instead of becoming a second Netherlands or Denmark.
They actually have more problems. For example look at its population. It never recovered after the great famine. And they always whine about one thing or another. But they do anything except for the right thing to actually attract young people wanting to have children.
The whole country outside of four urban centres is an absolute nightmare if you don't drive, and just not conductive to establishing a family anywhere.
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Ireland has a big infrastructure problem, that's for sure. If you live anywhere between Limerick and Dublin, well good luck getting around without a car. It's amazing how a country that'd be in an ideal position to have year round acceptable temps for cycling, barely any hills to speak of, and no extreme weather excuses either to keep up transit infra, is so regressive that they chose to go the route of 70s North America instead of becoming a second Netherlands or Denmark.
They actually have more problems. For example look at its population. It never recovered after the great famine. And they always whine about one thing or another. But they do anything except for the right thing to actually attract young people wanting to have children.
The whole country outside of four urban centres is an absolute nightmare if you don't drive, and just not conductive to establishing a family anywhere.
barely any hills to speak of
Donegal: Forgotten once again.
ETA - Also Connemara: Cad é an fuck?
And they always whine about one thing or another.
Funny how centuries of oppression, being alienated from their native language, and multiple unacknowledged genocides will do that to a people.
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Next: registration plate for every pedestrian to attach on the back side, and mandatory insurance
That would be stupid, but that a bicyclists use a high visibility jacket is not, too many time on the road (in Italy, but I suppose everywhere else) you cross bicyclists at night or late evening that are basically invisible until the last moment: no light, wear black clothes (and often in the wrong direction).
True, maybe also the road should be better illuminated, but that a bicyclists make himself visible is not a stupid idea.
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Ireland has a big infrastructure problem, that's for sure. If you live anywhere between Limerick and Dublin, well good luck getting around without a car. It's amazing how a country that'd be in an ideal position to have year round acceptable temps for cycling, barely any hills to speak of, and no extreme weather excuses either to keep up transit infra, is so regressive that they chose to go the route of 70s North America instead of becoming a second Netherlands or Denmark.
They actually have more problems. For example look at its population. It never recovered after the great famine. And they always whine about one thing or another. But they do anything except for the right thing to actually attract young people wanting to have children.
The whole country outside of four urban centres is an absolute nightmare if you don't drive, and just not conductive to establishing a family anywhere.
The whole country outside of four urban centres is an absolute nightmare if you don’t drive, and just not conductive to establishing a family anywhere.
To be honest I don't think this is a specific problem of Ireland, outside the urban centers the only option to move is to drive. There is not a critical mass for a public transportation system, expecially if you need to connect many small (< 20k people) urban centers.
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The whole country outside of four urban centres is an absolute nightmare if you don’t drive, and just not conductive to establishing a family anywhere.
To be honest I don't think this is a specific problem of Ireland, outside the urban centers the only option to move is to drive. There is not a critical mass for a public transportation system, expecially if you need to connect many small (< 20k people) urban centers.
A town with 1k-20k people is perfectly viable for a train stop and having an hourly train connect these smaller places with the next larger city.
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Next: registration plate for every pedestrian to attach on the back side, and mandatory insurance
judgyweevil@feddit.it I see you have been to the Netherlands.
