The council wasn’t hiring a municipal walker, but she took the job anyway
Once a month since September 2022, artist Lian Bell has done a full circuit of the North and South Circular Roads, observing these 14km through the seasons.
“Mark’s halfway across when The Dude takes the corner goin at least 60. Which tells Mark that The Dude either . . .” A new short story from poet, author and editor Dave Lordan.
Dublin City Council has filled its Cycling and Walking Promotion Officer position. We’re not allowed to interview her for the next few months, but here’s what we know.
Transfixed like a rabbit in headlamps by the fear of being sued for damages, engineers are still applying old thinking – as exemplified by new guardrails near St Stephen’s Green, writes Frank McDonald.
The metal guardrails that block your way when you’re trying to cross the street should be uprooted, some urban-development nerds argue.
Why doesn’t Dublin have more zebra crossings? Is it because planners here have a fundamentally pessimistic view of human behaviour?
The numbers behind Dublin’s crowded-pavement problem, with an interactive map thrown in.