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Cycling groups make last minute submissions to National Obesity Task Force. national |
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 Wednesday July 07, 2004 14:54 by Shane Foran - Irish Cycling Campaign - Feachtas Rothaiochta na hEireann galwaycyclist at yahoo dot co dot uk Dublin CC: http://www.connect.ie/dcc, Galway CC: http://www.eirbyte.com/gcc, Cork CC:http://indigo.ie/~woz/ccc 087 9935993
 Cork, Galway and Dublin Cycling Campaigns make submissions. The groups highlight the proven health benefits of regular cycling, and outline measures required to restore cyclist access to Irish towns. The Department of Health is asked to take a robust line on misleading claims emanating from the Irish car lobby. The last week has seen Irish Cycling Organisations involved in rushed, last minute efforts to make submissions to the National Task Force on Obesity, which had only defined a three-week window for public submissions. Despite the short notice, the Cork, Galway and Dublin Cycling Campaigns managed to make submissions. The groups highlight the proven health benefits of regular cycling – an actuarial cost benefit analysis of regular cycling has estimated that the lives saved/years gained through regular cycling may outweigh any lives/years lost by up to 20:1. The point is made that it is lack of exercise, rather than diet, that is the major cause of obesity. The submissions include a hierarchy of measures for creating a “cyclist-friendly” roads infrastructure including traffic reduction, traffic calming, junction treatments and road space reallocation. The cyclists argue that creating a cyclist-friendly infrastructure requires influencing the current “car-friendly” activities of the Departments of Transport and Environment. |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4" According to recent census data, more teenage girls now drive themselves to school in cars than use bicycles."
is that really true??? Are the roads of Ireland filled on a Monday Morning with detoxing pillpopping alcopopoholic young wans pulling skids on the way to first class at the local Sacred Heart / Sisters of Mercy?
Now this is what happens when you allow someone like Conor cruise Obrien goto to TCD without the proper permission.
The whole country is going to Hell.
:-) best of luck with your campaign.
Census 2002 Travel to work School and College
School travel: Secondary schoolgirls:
Cycling: 1046
Driving cars: 1176
more neat stuff here
http://www.cso.ie/census/vol9_index.htm
A quick and dirty conversion to standard HTML of the submission is available on the Dublin Cycling Campaign website at http://www.connect.ie/dcc/submissions/ObesityTaskForceJune04.html
To the best of my knowledge, the submissions were made in response to the request from the Department of Health at http://www.healthpromotion.ie/topics/obesity/submissions/
is this story related, there was a bit about jay walking, the eu wants it to stop, it goes on about how we don't pay attention to it,*which we don't ) even though theres fines etc...
he NSC is quoted as saying it said there was a number of pedestrian deaths occur year ( as opposed to car occupants) at that of that number 97% are the fault of the pedestrian?
of course they say theres responsibilty on motorist to look out or stop but ... 97%
maybe its true but i doubt evey word coming out of the nsc's mouth, reading the dcc's reports over the last while..?