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A cyclist was seriously injured in a collision with an articulated lorry on the Old Dublin Road in Renmore this week. Gardai are appealing to people who witnessed the incident to come forward.

A cyclist was seriously injured in a collision with an articulated lorry on the Old Dublin Road in Renmore this week. Gardai are appealing to people who witnessed the incident to come forward.

Community advocates for safer streets are pleased that a majority of Galway city councillors voted to include 30 km per hour speed limits outside city schools as part of the city’s speed limit review at Monday’s council meeting, and that the Executive promised a full review of speed limits of all city and suburban roads by 2024.

Galway Cycling Campaign welcomes the available funding for 22 new jobs in Galway City Council as part of the government investment in expanding walking and cycling facilities all over the country.

Galway needs to follow the example of Wales and decrease its speed limits for urban areas from 50km/h to 30km/h, that is the opinion of the chairperson of Galway Cycling Campaign, Kevin Jennings.

Cyclists around the city had their hopes dashed on Monday afternoon when Galway's city councillors defeated a motion to construct a temporary cycle lane in Salthill using funding from the National Transport Authority's (NTA) special Covid-19 Interim Mobility Measures Fund.

The Galway Cycling Campaign has welcomes the temporary emergency measures outlined by the City Mobility Team at the City Council meeting. While many of us cannot yet return to work, they support these efforts to get city businesses thriving in the aftermath of the coronavirus shutdown and to build a resilient network where people can continue to move, trade, play and live in face of the persistent threat of a second wave.

CycleCoffeeCake is a new initiative of the Galway Cycling Campaign which aims to encourage novice cyclists to hop on their saddles and join together in a gentle, inclusive cycle around Galway city.

Galway Cycling Campaign has said that it backing local businesses as the city knuckles down to kick-start the economy again.

Calls have been made this week to change the streetscape of the city to make it more conducive to social distancing over the duration of the Covid-19 crisis.