Category: Guest & opinion articles
Articles written by guest contributors and opinion pieces from Bikefast
How to deliver the Belfast Bicycle Network
It’s more than three years since the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) published its draft Belfast Bicycle Network Plan (BBNP). The imperative to decarbonise our society is …
Ciclovia Belfast stuck in the slow lane
As we enter the eighth month of the year, Ciclovia Belfast 2018 has no confirmed date. Bikefast’s Jonathan Hobbs thinks it’s time to reset the event …
Cycling investment and the DUP Deal
So the confidence and supply deal is done and the DUP have brought home the bacon – £1.5 billion for Northern Ireland in exchange for propping …
Life and death of the Stranmillis Gyratory
Cycling infrastructure enables people of all ages and abilities to get about safely and confidently by bicycle. It’s what we need more of right across Belfast. …
Hume Dunlop Bridge waiting for an Executive
The 18th of May marks the birth of the modern bicycle right here in Belfast. In 1889 Willie Hume of the Belfast Cruisers Cycling Club proved …
Daft signs bring cyclists and TransportNI into disrepute
CYCLISTS PLEASE DISMOUNT signs causing confusion for no obvious reason in the centre of Belfast
Zero per cent – our shameful cycling to school level
Northern Ireland has officially failed to meet its 2011-15 target for active travel to schools – and cycling interventions aren’t necessarily on the horizon.
THE PROS FROM DOVER ARE COMING
Belfast wouldn’t take its medicine and it’s gonna get its chest cracked open again. It won’t be pretty. It could be different though.
Is anywhere safe from the lycra louts? Northern Ireland, actually.
Brendan O’Neill’s Daily Mail rant against cyclists made it’s way to the Northern Ireland airwaves – and a golden opportunity to challenge his perception and those of the local audience was missed
The shape of things to come
Infrastructure Minister Chris Hazzard has been in post since May 2016. In that time you may not have had the chance to gauge how progressive a …