Seamus Mac Carthaigh
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Public transport is a major issue in Galway 🚌 BusConnects is a big part of the solution whether you’re in Moycullen, Barna, Galway City Centre or Oranmore. 📍 A key priority for bye-election candidate Cllr Cillian Keane is to deliver Galway BusConnects 🚏✅
Transport is responsible for over 1 in 10 deaths from #airpollution worldwide. While #electrification is key, this 2025 ITDP study with FIA Foundation shows that shifting trips away from cars is just as critical, cutting harmful pollutants like PM2.5 that electric vehicles can’t solve. For the first time, this study quantifies how different #transport futures will shape national #airquality outcomes through 2050. Explore the findings 👉 itdp.org/publication/ai…
Active travel delivers €2.99 billion in annual economic benefit across the Metropolitan Areas according to the 2025 Walking and Cycling Index published earlier this month. To find out more, read our Climate Action Newsletter: gov.ie/en/department-…
Elect a mayor who talks about bicycles. Cities designed for the bicycle tend to serve everyone: the rich and the poor, the young and the old. In transport policy, the bicycle is perhaps the most democratic instrument ever invented🚲
Every square mile of all major cities must connect to accessible bicycle greenways so cycling becomes a real mobility choice. After building 1,000+ km of protected lanes, Paris tripled cycling trips between 2019–2023, proving infrastructure, not culture, creates cyclists 🚴
Madrid is building 74km forest belt of half a million trees 🌳 around the city to fight extreme heat, air pollution & climate change. We have so many solutions. Implement them. #ActOnClimate #ClimateCrisis #climate #energy #renewables #biodiversity #IPCC
🇪🇺 🌳 From Amsterdam to Paris, streets are being deamericanised. The American city maximises cars. The European city maximises life. Roads are turned into parks! Built for people
It’s a story about how millions of people — locals and visitors alike — are choosing two wheels over four, and what happens when cities finally begin to give them the safe space and the bike shares to do it. momentummag.com/the-worlds-big…
