Campaign Issue

Lecture/seminar: Traffic skills for Cyclists by Shane Foran

Mobility Week 2008


Shane Foran Chairman of the Galway Cycling Campaign will be giving a Traffic skills for Cyclists seminar
Tuesday 16th September @13:00-14:00 at the ECI/NCBES/Orbsen Building Seminar Room, NUI Galway

The seminar titled Tips and Tricks for Bicycle Users in City Traffic will be covering the following topics:

Information on Shared Road Markings

Simon has been doing some research on Share Road markings.

Attached below are 3 comprehensive documents about the practice.

To accompany the reading material I would like to suggest the following questions (anyone else can add their own queries and comments to the pot as we proceed):

1. How relevant and applicable are the Brisbane/Australia and San Francisco/USA experiences to Galway/Ireland?

Galway's Roundabouts

Galway's Roundabouts

Life outside a car in the "City of the Tribes"

 

Galway's Roundabouts

On multilane
roundabouts
of the design favoured by Galway corporation cyclists
have an injury accident rate that is 14-16 times that of motorists. Motorcycle/Scooter
users are only marginally better off at 10-13 times the injury rate. They
are also a nightmare for pedestrians. Many of them were built at a time
when over 39% of permanent private households in the City didn't have
a car. While for short urban journeys within the city, foot and cycle
use outweighed motorcar milage by a factor of almost two.
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