My name is Thomas Bibby, I am an iOS Developer based in Limerick, Ireland. Read more about me»
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- Untitled August 6, 2019Good news for those of us crying out for better public transport and cycling facilities in Limerick. And some bad news.
- Untitled August 4, 2019And Eoin in Limerick has been writing some brilliant articles about cycling, urbanism, and how to design people-centred cities and neighbourhoods. I’m always grateful when there’s another post of his to read.
- Untitled August 4, 2019Reading long-form articles that people have posted on their own websites makes me so happy. Paul from Kerry has been posting some fantastic and thought provoking pieces about masculinity recently – they’re worth a read.
- Untitled August 3, 2019A fascinating look at how people use public spaces. Lots of really useful lessons on how to design our cities for humans.
- Untitled July 31, 2019Hear, hear: ‘But Fianna Fail councillor Abul Kalam Azad Talukder said: “Students are not outsiders. They are our family. Limerick has a good name as a student city and we need to make them feel welcome.”’
- Untitled July 29, 2019From a post I wrote last year: it is possible to close Limerick’s O’Connell St to through traffic *and* speed up our bus services by providing bus lanes for all services through the city centre.
- Untitled July 22, 2019Two letters to the editor of the Limerick Leader, November 1964.
- Untitled July 12, 2019Forty, Thirty, Twenty, Ten: make Limerick’s transport work again
- Untitled July 11, 2019This is not perfect but still to be welcomed – the road rises to meet the footpath, not the other way round, and the pedestrian priority is reinforced by the different material. So much better for pedestrians. More of this please!
- Untitled July 10, 2019In last year’s Limerick Council budget there was €1m for a cycle route to Mary I and €400m for a (unneeded) bridge at Park road. This year there’s no budget for the cycle route and €1.4m for the bridge. What’s going on?
- Untitled July 9, 2019“In Limerick, perhaps we need to arm our roads engineers with the permission to be street and community engineers instead“
- Untitled July 8, 2019Depressing thought of the day: Limerick city and county emits roughly the same amount of greenhouse gases as Liberia, population 4.5 million (source: Wikipedia, assuming per capita emissions in Limerick are the same as rest of country)
- Untitled July 1, 2019I’m hoping someone can help me…I’m trying to look at obnoxious interest rates charged by insurance companies on monthly instalments. 15% deposit and 9 equal instalments at an interest rate of 6.715%. APR is quoted at 17.04%. How is the APR calculated from those numbers?
- Untitled June 23, 2019Limerick’s traffic problem is a school traffic problem. Many parents want their kids to cycle or walk to school if they can be safe. We need to ditch plans for expensive ring roads and connect all schools with high quality bike lanes that your seven year-old would feel safe on.
- Untitled June 20, 2019Allowing Clare County Council and the University of Limerick to build a new town at the edge of the city would be damaging for the city, damaging for the region and damaging for the country.
- Untitled June 16, 2019Important questions: “To what extent is living in a surveillance-saturated world compatible with pluralism and democracy? What are the consequences of raising a generation of children whose every action feeds into a corporate database?”
- Untitled June 15, 2019I love this: “Our town exists in a fog of mystery and enigmatic strangeness, and nothing that happens outside city boundaries should have any bearing on how we govern or exist.“
- Untitled June 10, 2019Time to start building Limerick’s cycle network
- Untitled June 9, 2019Though you have left me, I’m not yet alone: For what you were befriends the firelit room; And what you said remains & is my own To make a living gladness of my gloom https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/09/student-discovers-new-siegfried-sassoon-love-poem
- Untitled May 20, 2019Your Green team. For a stronger Limerick and a stronger Europe.