A false alarm from the Barclay Crop Protection plant near Mulhuddart in July confused some locals, who didn't know what it was, what it meant, or how to get more information.
People on low incomes, with unstable housing, are bound to be most affected by more stringent policies for citizenship, says Lucky Khambule of the Movement of Asylum Seekers Ireland (MASI).
On the contrary, apartments have limited parking to nudge people away from cars – and the council should hold the line on that, and introduce other nudges too, some transport committee members suggested.
This is a long-term project to track bicycle collisions in the city. If you’ve been involved in a bicycle collision in the city, let us know the details.
This is a long-term project to track bicycle collisions in the city.
The Road Safety Authority maps some data for cycle collisions. But what about the smaller collisions that cyclists face day to day, which might put them off cycling, or hint that certain intersections might be unsafe for cyclists?
Do these smaller crashes happen in the same places over and over again? Do some intersections that need to be redesigned to keep cyclists safe? We’d like your help to try to work this out.
If you’ve been involved in a bicycle collision in the city, let us know the details by marking it on the map below, and filling in our form.
Zoom in if you need to, click on the spot where the accident happened, and then click “Next” in the top right corner of the map and answer a few questions.
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Here are all the collisions reported so far.
We couldn’t have got this up and running without the help of data wizard Mick O’Brien, who volunteered his skills.
People on low incomes, with unstable housing, are bound to be most affected by more stringent policies for citizenship, says Lucky Khambule of the Movement of Asylum Seekers Ireland (MASI).
"As you can imagine, you've got 20 parking spaces, and we come along and say we're going to take out two of them or something like that to give spaces for people on bikes, it doesn't go down particularly well."
Louth County Council passed a motion calling for other local authorities – including Dublin City Council – to join it in pressuring the government to change national planning regulations.