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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 09, 2023

QUESTION NO. 22QUESTION: Councillor C. O'Connor

To ask the CEO to detail actions he is now taking to promote the use of cycle lanes in the County and will he make a statement? 

REPLY: 

South Dublin County Council was the first Local Authority in Ireland to have an Active Travel Website.   

This  website has all the details to the Council's cycle schemes across the county, alongside lots of content on Active Travel and its promotion. It is found through the main South Dublin County Council Website and we regularly send out links to the website across our social media channels. The link to the website is as follows https://www.sdcc.ie/en/active-travel/

The Active Travel team is about to embark on a series of Active Travel Roadshows and once again will be the first Council in Ireland to do this.   The roadshows will be a series presented to the public focusing on cycling and walking and our current and future infrastructure. More detail on this will follow in the very near future. 

The Active Travel team has also worked with the NTA and Professor Pila to introduce a bike library scheme to two large primary schools on Rossmore Road.   The aim of this scheme is to encourage both parents and children to cycle to school safely, and to use the new cycle lanes that are in place. Depending on he success of this initial bike library scheme, it is hoped that in the future we can roll out further similar schemes to more schools across the county.

Finally, every year we deliver Bike Week which is a National Event run in collaboration with the NTA. This initiative delivers a series of large events across the county which include organised Community Cycles, Webinars, Bike Maintenance Clinics and School Events to highlight and promote our Active Travel Routes.