RTÉ's On the Roads with Simon Delaney visits Mayo
NEW RTÉ series On the Roads with Simon Delaney has visited Mayo.
In episode two, to be aired on RTÉ One this Monday night, June 13, Simon visits Westport and Achill.
He meets Noelle Angley, architect with Mayo County Council, and they discuss the active travel plan around Westport and how the greenway feeds into this.
He also talks to Kieran Ryan from the 15 Minute Westport campaign who are looking at the re-allocation of road spaces. In the town currently, 80% of the road space is given over to vehicle use.
On Achill Island, Simon meets Andrea O' Malley Kilbane whose life has been transformed by the availability of the Keel Remote Working Hub, the most remote working hub in Europe. Less time in the car, means more time for community activities.
Also in this episode, Simon goes up in the air with the Community Air Ambulance in Cork to look at our rural roads from their viewpoint, and travels across Wales to find out how they intend to fix their road safety and climate action issues with the one solution.
He also looks at the challenges facing rural Ireland and the big changes coming from the new Roads Safety Strategy and explores the Local Link bus service in Co. Leitrim.
How we travel in Ireland is going to fundamentally change over the next few years. Ireland’s new Road Safety Strategy aims to half road deaths and serious injuries by 2030 and bring that number down to zero by 2050 through measures that will, in turn, impact climate action issues such as congestion, emissions and noise pollution.
Over this four-part series, Simon Delaney looks at the big issues facing Ireland when it comes to road safety, shared mobility, and climate action. He finds out how we might make travel in Ireland safer, greener, and simply more pleasant, not just for the road users but also for the people living in the areas we move through.
To do this, Simon visits some of our European neighbours to look at what they are doing to reduce road collisions whilst keeping their traffic moving in a safer, greener, and more effective way. He then spends time with the teams tasked with keeping our roads and road users safe as well as the people behind the positive changes happening across Ireland.
He will be joined by journalist Geraldine Herbert and Conor Pope to look at both the current state and the future of cars and our road networks as well why our capital city ranks among the most congested in Europe and the ongoing challenges of getting people out of cars and onto public transport, bikes, or walking.