Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

There is not a single person with an interest in this issue who would think the way we are managing the promotion of cycling is working. I do not think there is a single person who would side with the Minister in this argument. I could go down through a litany of examples of actions. The Liffey cycle route was in planning for six years. The financial crash had nothing to do with it not going ahead. It was a lack of political will and that is coming from the centre, in part from the Minister's Department and in part from his own office. In regard to College Green plaza, the problem was a traffic management plan done by An Bord Pleanála that was still based on an incredibly car-centred system. On safe routes to cycle to school, Finglas councillors voted against putting in such provisions in regard to new schools despite it being policy in the new national development plan. The Minister and his Department did nothing about it. That was in the past two years. The proposal for a south Dublin cycle way, which would have really promoted cycling on the south side of the city, was again blocked-----

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