My name is Thomas Bibby, I live in Nenagh, Ireland. Read more about me» I am currently fooling about with Mastodon.
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- Untitled October 20, 2024Housing unit completions in 2022 and 2023 in Ireland’s Southern Region (which includes the cities of Cork, Limerick and Waterford) by settlement type. From the Southern Regional Assembly’s submission to the Draft First Revision to the National Planning Framework, September 2024 (PDF).
- Untitled April 7, 2024The situation in Sudan and South Sudan is just heartbreaking. Powerful reporting by Sally Hayden in the Irish Times.
- Untitled April 2, 2024Know anyone living near Kells Co. Meath, or Virginia and Ballyjamesduff Co. Cavan? The National Transport Authority (NTA) has launched a public consultation on an enhancement to Route 187 between Kells and Virginia.
- Untitled March 9, 2024Proud to stand with over 50 people today in Roscrea at a vigil organised by the Tipperary Anti-Racism Network. Refugees welcome!
- Untitled February 17, 2024A rather rushed submission on the Slane bypass project, sent in before submissions closed yesterday
- Untitled December 30, 2023The first edition of this book by Jarrett Walker changed my life: it inspired me to quit my job as a software developer to go and work as a transport planner. I can’t wait to read the second edition, which you can preorder now.
- Untitled December 28, 2023I came across two fascinating articles today: one on how goitre was defeated in Switzerland and another on how the world forgot to prevent scurvy in the 1800s.
- Untitled December 21, 2023“Are you gonna open the door for me, hay?” Sponsored, but captures the experience of rural public transport in Ireland very well.
- Untitled December 16, 2023Happy Christmas to everyone except the people at Scott Tallon Walker architects, who think an 82cm wide (less than half the recommended absolute minimum) footpath is acceptable on a (one way) shopping street in the new Nenagh public realm plan.
- Untitled December 9, 2023This traffic warden in Nenagh is my hero.
- Untitled May 19, 2023We pay an enormous price for our automotive addiction—in congestion, time wasted, neighborhoods destroyed, emissions pumped out, pleasant streets subordinated to brutal expressways—but telling the addict that the drug isn’t actually pleasurable is a losing game. There is some slight hope in saying that it isn’t healthy, and that the replacement for the drug is […]
- Untitled May 19, 2023New all-electric Local Link route 438 starting Monday 22 May, connecting villages north of Galway City to Galway, Headford and Tuam with 3 buses/day, 7 days/week. This service will bring a number of Galway villages who were not previously served by timetabled public transport on to the national network.
- Untitled May 11, 2023Nice to see printed timetables in Limerick station for the expanded Scariff and Mitchelstown services introduced under the Connecting Ireland programme.
- Untitled April 30, 2023The National Fares Strategy summary was released last week: in the future rail and bus fares outside Dublin will be calculated from a boarding charge and a charge based on km as the crow flies. I built a calculator where you can vary both charges and see the impact on intercity rail fares.
- Untitled April 25, 2023A new one-way, two-lane traffic layout with no cycle facilities or wider footpaths is proposed for the centre of Nenagh which could increase traffic levels through the town. Deadline for submissions is Weds 4:30pm, here’s mine: https://thomas.bibby.ie/submission-on-the-proposed-traffic-calming-measures-on-pearse-street-mitchel-street-emmet-place-kickham-street-and-silver-street-nenagh/
- Untitled April 24, 2023A CYCLe Optimised Protected Signals (CYCLOPS) junction recently installed in Manchester, UK.
- Untitled April 23, 2023Three examples of “priority narrowing” or a “single lane working chicane” in a residential area in Hull, UK. The first two examples have associated uncontrolled pedestrian crossing points, the first in the middle (in front of a primary school) and the second in front of the chicane.
- Untitled April 12, 2023Good news for commuters on the east coast of Ireland: from early May the 133 Wicklow-Dublin bus will increase frequency from hourly to every 30 mins; and the 101 Drogheda-Balbriggan-Dublin bus will switch to a 24 hour service with buses every 20-30 mins during the day and hourly through the night.
- Untitled April 4, 2023Fascinating paper (PDF) by Shane Timmons and others at the ESRI looking at how active travel infrastructure changes behaviour, how to design infrastructure to encourage its use, and how to overcome local opposition to new infrastructure. It will be of interest to anyone planning, implementing or campaigning for better safer and healthier roads and streets.
- Untitled April 1, 2023Scrabble as Gaeilge, ar fáil ó Easons. Bhaineamar taitneamh as!