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 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!
- Untitled March 27, 2023Maps showing (a) new/improved rural bus routes introduced in the last 12 months, and (b) planned new/improved routes planned for 2023. From a programme update by the National Transport Authority’s Connecting Ireland team which was released today.
- Untitled March 23, 2023In an ideal world it would be obvious to us all that parking your vehicle entirely on the footpath near a large primary school is anti-social and wrong, not to mention a road traffic offence; in the meantime it’s great to see fines starting to being issued in Limerick. Thank you Limerick Council! (Hopefully we’ll […]
- Untitled March 21, 2023New CSO stats today show a big increase in bus journeys outside Dublin over pre-pandemic levels. Graph shows bus passenger journeys outside Dublin for the first four weeks in January in 2023 vs 2019. According to the CSO by Week 8 this 2019-23 increase had reached 31%. In addition, bus journeys in Dublin have also […]
- Untitled March 20, 2023“A new report released by the UN and Somalia’s government has found that there may have been 43,000 excess deaths last year as a result of the ongoing drought – half of whom were likely to be children under the age of five.”
- Untitled March 12, 2023This is a lovely article by The Ranty Highwayman. Even though it’s ostensibly about designing roads and streets for efficient and safe movement (and it is very wise and insightful about this topic) I think it’s also about design in general: the importance of empathy with all those those who will encounter your designs; the […]
- Untitled March 6, 2023When it comes to improving transport we sometimes focus too much on price, when space and capacity can have a much greater impact. Great article in the Irish Times with nuggets of wisdom from transport experts Dave O’Connor, Lorraine D’Arcy and Brian Caulfield.
- Untitled March 1, 2023Fascinating process going on with the Sustainable Urban Mobility Plan in Kilkenny. Public consultation and focus group reports published this week. “A city that has shared space for all, is uncomfortable for cars…all-inclusive, busy with lots of people” The focus group consisted a wide range of stakeholders from Kilkenny, who got input from experts such […]
- Untitled February 27, 2023Great to see the draft CycleConnects national cycle network (1) already feeding in to local area plans: here’s the Roscrea Local Area Plan (2) published on Friday which has incorporated most of the suggested CycleConnects network into their transport plan (with a few omissions). A national plan is invaluable to show where local investment should […]
- Untitled February 22, 2023Delighted to see the consultation for BusConnects Limerick, and the city is lucky to have experts from the firm founded by Jarrett Walker designing its network. Lots of good in it, but disappointed however to see half of the high frequency routes will not serve the city’s bus/rail station, so no direct transfer to the […]
- Untitled February 17, 20232023 will be a truly groundbreaking year for rural public transport in Ireland. 67 new and upgraded routes being introduced this year, across every county in the country, as part of the Connecting Ireland programme. PDF with details