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THE PROPOSED PUBLIC bicycle share scheme for Limerick’s city centre will be up and running by autumn 2014, the body responsible for the proposal said today.
The scheme will feature 23 docking stations, housing 400 individual docks across the city for 200 bikes. It is styled on the Dublin Bikes Scheme, which has recorded over three million journeys since its launch. Following the success of this scheme, the National Transport Authority initiated the introduction of similar schemes in Cork and Galway, as well as Limerick.
Limerick Smarter Travel – an initiative started by both the city and county councils, made the announcement today ahead of a public information session that is due to be held in Limerick this afternoon in relation to the scheme.
Pat O’Neill, project manager at Limerick Smarter Travel said the project “aims to develop an environmentally-friendly means of public transport that is healthy, relatively inexpensive, brings jobs closer to where people live, and ensures an improved quality of life in the City’s natural and built environment”.
He said the NTA has recently commenced the tender process for the supply, installation, operation and maintenance of the scheme.
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Have to admit I was one of the first to say it wouldn’t work in Dublin but I am delighted to eat my words.
Seems very successful.
It will always work when you have city with civilised people
thank fully most of the people living in Dublin city are not Dubliners.
I have been visiting Limerick for over 30 years and apart from the odd drunken boyo I have had great craic.
People like matt and scar come out of the poisonous woodwork when something good comes out about limerick.
Be prepared for two separate jobs announcements for limk over the next few weeks that will reverse all the jobs lost in dell.
General motors and regeneron………….come on down.
matt and scar will go ballistic.
Duke…. If your theory is right then most road crashes in Dublin are not caused by Dubs!
raglan, sure there are no dubs, dubs are all culthies.
lol culchies………..ahem
Were civilised culchies in Dublin… Once we discovered toilet paper and knives and forks there was no stopping us lol…
If it means less boggers with a chip on their shoulder, on the rob in the capital, then I’m all for it. #culchiesout #jobs4boggers
Dublin = culchies with manners lol
scar lmao
‘on the rob in the capital’
ye don’t need culthies to go ‘on the rob in the capital’,
there’s more thieves on the boardwalk than there are in munster.
This is the first time i have ever commented about Limerick. You need to lay off the smoke!
As you said yourself ‘most of the people living in Dublin are not dubliners’ ergo they’re boggers, particularly the ones on the rob on the boardwalk. Can’t have it both ways. FYI -,You can tell they’re culchies by their bad clothing and shifty appearance.
Don’t forget the smell.
Bad clothing and shifty appearance? You’re dead right Scar. They should embrace the “locals” dress sense of hoody, trackie, baseball cap and very cheap but very white trainers. They are bound to blend in and look less shifty then. Clown!
Oops I forgot about the daily tub of wet look gel. I can’t believe the catwalks off NY and Paris haven’t been inspired by the local Dublin look
Mammy buys your clothes Niall
Wow comeback of the day Matt. Impressive!! :)
The burning question. Are you a Dunnes or Penneys man?
Look at niall writing his reply on his stolen phone. Those people you describe – they’re all boggers hanging out in their dodgy gear. Thanks for the limerick fashion updates all the same. Limerick, known more for perp-walks than catwalks. :)
lol,
‘Limerick, known more for perp-walks than catwalks’
lmao
the boardwalk in Dublin is the perpwalk.
|Catwalks? that would be limerick school of art and design,
48th best art college in the world, I think Dublin art colleges are in the 500′s.
Since hurling don’t suit them… On yer bike
mike,
we have the rugby to look forward to……
Wil they still leave their horse outside?
They’ll all get nicked.
that’s what they said about Dublin.
But this is LIMERICK we’re talking about!
exactly,
Dublin has 5 times the population of limerick and 80 times more crime.
Dublin actually has just over 6 times the population of limerick.
Are you typing from the boardwalk?
Did you just pull those figures out of your head?
matt,
no, I pulled them of the http://www.cso.ie website.
How’s that grab you?
Limerick has the highest crime levels in the country for criminal damage done to property. Lets hope they leave the bikes alone.
They won’t get nicked,
These are big heavy bikes, very very easy to spot and they have next to no resell value.
Fools said the same thing about the scheme in Dublin saying all the bikes would be robbed or end up in rivers, this didn’t happen and infact off hand I believe two were stolen but later recovered.
Dublin has 6’6 times the population of Limerick.
I would ask the dubs to get a tutorial on how to divide a big number by a small number before ye attempt the question. Go yo ucd and ask them to do it for you.
http://www.cso.ie/en/statistics/population/populationofeachprovincecountyandcity2011
lmfao,
you’re quoting the cork examiner………….rflmfao…..lmao…lol……………I have to lie down, he’s quoting the cork examiner. lol
matt,
the cork examiner gave it away when they said that cork is the safest city in Ireland. Cork city is a dangerous kip. limerick is the safest city in Ireland.
MATT, DON’T BELIEVE WHAT YOU READ IN THE CORK EXAMINER OR INM OR THE IT OR THE TABLOIDS.
BAAAAAA BAAAAAAAAAAAA BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Irish examiner!! What are you on? Get back to school with your lmfao, rflmfao, lmao. Lol. Very S.A.D
You can’t realistically compare Co Dublin and Co Limerick when both contain some element of rural population who has no link to the city.
Working out the population of Irish towns is a difficult thing to do with so many having spilled over their official borders and no formal definition of what constitutes the built up area as you get in some other countries.
Your best bet is to compare the figures for Dublin City and Suburbs and the combined figures for Limerick City, Limerick Suburbs and Limerick Suburbs in Clare in the table below
1,110,627
57,106 + 29,975 + 4,021 = 91,102
So you’re looking at 1/12 of the population
http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/census/documents/census2011vol1andprofile1/Table,5.pdf
matt,
that rag was never an irish examiner, it doesn’t report cork crime, it ignores the hundreds of burnt out houses in knockneheeny/mayfied/togher/guarnabraher etc, it ignores crime in cork and manipulates figures to make limerick look bad, something they learnt from inm.
Seriously, it’s a rag, it’s the cork examiner, it’;s not worth the title of irish examiner.
That duke of limerick lad is coming off a bit of a nutter.
chris,
not true.
That census is out of date, limerick has got a boundary extension which has brought the population of the city upto 100,000, add to that the 15,000 in clare who are part of urban limerick = 115,00.
The population of urban Dublin is 1,000,080 (rest is rural)
so to compare two urban areas, 1,000,080 divided 115,000 = 8.6
urban Dublin is 8.6 times the size of urban limerick.
Thank you.
Its the 80 times more crime statistic that really caught my eye. I never knew that.
Limerick is smelly pie ball ridden kip
Makes little sense. Limerick is one of the counties that bike usage has gone backwards? Should have been Galway and then maybe Cork.
Ooh easy with the facts Barry. The naysayers don’t like that.
lamb,
why would you need a commuter bike in galway?
Lots of offices/clinics/shopping centres/colleges/cinemas etc in suburban limerick, same with cork, galway is too small.
If you can cycle to salthill you can walk to salthill.
Cut em up for scrap metal no bother Boss!
.There hasnt been a fatal shooting in Limerick since 2011.How many in the greater Dublin area in that time span??
Greater Dublin 1.8 million people.
Woo-hoo!!
Looking at the date on the other article, it’s around 2 years since this was last announced.
How many of those cities have a bike scheme in place? None
If the government and local authorities had the same number of people in place implementing things as they seem to have devoted to announcing things, a hell of a lot more would get done.
I personally know the team working on this solidly for the past two years to get it to this point- a combined effort with the School of Architecture and the City Council. The biggest challenge is connecting the University and city, and creating a safe environment. It also created jobs for graduates. Leave it to the qualified professionals who have studied, analysed and surveyed it rather than making sweeping statements about something you don’t really know about, these things don’t happen over night.
Err connecting UL to Limerick…
WATER TAXI on the canal,which was revamped at great cost and is now overgrown again….???
How many millions wasted by the council,and UL and waterways Ireland on this project???
This is what happens when “experts” get to play with public money…Grandiose ideas,much tarting up of walkways and a canal,that not one single boat has sailed on sofar.
Limerick could have done with the bikes to catch up with Clare yesterday.
I’m not sure what cycling in Limerick is like generally but a major issue would be how good the roads are re: cycle lanes, potholes and junctions. None of these issues unfortunately were addressed in Dublin by DCC.
the roads are pretty good, it’s the fcukin drivers that are dangerous.
The roads in the city centre are generally good as most have been resurfaced in recent years. The terrain is generally flat enough with unchallenging inclines here and there. The traffic can be a pain, a lot of drivers are clueless and down right ignorant of other road users and cycle paths are few in the centre. Given a bit of investment this scheme will do good for Limerick.
I’d say it’ll be as good a success in Limerick. I hope they don’t repeat the Dublin error of making the area covered by the scheme too small.
Oh thats already installe all over the city…Much to the detriment of getting the TAX paying motorist efficent and clear routes thru and around the city…Trouble is no one uses them!Havent seen one person on a bike in weeks in Limerick.[Thats excluding scobes riding around on BMX bikes in the housing estates]
More like the I dont give a fuk stupid cylists who decide rules of the road dont apply to them at all.Its the FOOTpath morons!!Not a cyclepath.
BTW Limerick pedisterians! The RED man means STOP!!! DO NOT CROSS the GREEN man means SAFE to cross.Seems everyone in Limerick has that bass ackwards,and BTW wearing a hoodie while fuking around on your Iphone does not make you impervious to being plasterd all over the road by a car coming around the bend at O Connell st/Sarsfield st which you have decided to dwadle over against the lights.
Said the man who has never cycled up O Curry st. :}}
You can f#%^ your Honda Civic. I’ve a bike outside.
Scheme is a good idea but the current proposals are not suitable. Limerick is not like Dublin, the city center is compact and you can walk it with ease. Current plans have all the bikes in the city center.
It would be a LOT more useful to put them in the suburbs, Castletroy/UL, Corbally, Caherdavin, Raheen, Dooradoyle etc. These suburbs are all within a couple of miles of city center.
Can’t see many people talking out a bike just to cycle across the city center, with traffic swapping lanes and jaywalkers it will be faster to walk.
It’s quite a distance from Nancys to Tom Collins. Bring on the bikes
Limerick is a fecking kip half of the county should be locked up!! Full of so called hard men intimidating other folk! The government should build a big wall around limerick and be done with it .
Nearly as bad as Lucan then!
David,
calm down old boy, there’s bound to be a 24 hour pharmacy close to you or you could just go to the boardwalk.
Can we build a bigger one around greater Dublin??And prefably buy of Angelica Merkel all the mines,sentry towers,machine guns and sniper rifles that were surplus when the wall came down in Germany to keep the Dubs IN there??
Dubliners pay to keep the country going simon. You would be 50 years behind without the Dubs.
Rather be 50 years behind the times and developing ,than having a shower like ye ruining the rest of the country even further.Without the rest of the country Matt,you would be starving and dying .No great loss either.Always wonderd if we could convince the Brits to nuke Dublin!
Always 12 months away, it’s only a few bike stands and a few bikes ffs.
No it’s not.
I hear they are setting up a knife rent scheme also.
Can’t get the knife rent scheme license off Dublin, ye greedy bsatrds.
Well for some who fully own theirs – http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0720/463633-stabbing-dublin/
that stabbing was kept very quiet.
Great, would love to see this happen!
Start reading some news Carcu and keep up to date.
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