Dr. Rachel Aldred:

It has been a bit of a struggle. I went to Dublin City University to examine a PhD viva on Monday. I was on the road mixing with busy, fast-moving motor traffic. I was then on the shared footway - it was legal - weaving around pedestrians, and I was meant to be back on the road again. That type of infrastructure that does not work for anyone. If we are fearless and want to be on the road, like the 1%, that is not for us. If we do not want to mix with motor traffic, it not for us either because we keep having to go back onto the road. It was a bit familiar to the experience of cycling in some parts of the UK but it did not work. What is clearly needed on a road such as that is a safe, protected cycle way for everyone, not to have to cycle partly on the footpath and partly on the road.