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Dublin City Greenway Cycle
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event notice 
Wednesday June 15, 2005 15:58
by dunk - dublin ECG (eco city group)
fuspey at yahoo dot co dot uk
everyone is welcome to join us for the Dublin City Greenway Cycle, we leave from mayor square in the IFSC (international financial services centre) at 12.00.
This time we will cycle anti clockwise, northside first, and stop in the phoenix park for a picnic.
event should take about 2 to 3 hours
see link below for first greenway cycle (May 21 2005) during which the Dublin ECG was set up.
more background to the project with links here
http://easa.antville.org/stories/960542/#1126489
what are greenways?
http://www.heritagecouncil.ie/walkways/project7.html
greenway audio interview with Daniel Mourek, Czech greenway group, at first greenway cycle
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/imgp1076.wav
short audio piece with Sheriff Street kids about one of the parks that the greenway will thread through
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/imgp1079.wav
there was a Euro Greenways conference in Dublin (31 May 2005) and below are some audio files from that forum
http://www.heritagecouncil.ie/news/greenways.html
European Greenways Association
http://www.aevv-egwa.org/
Gilbert Perrin, Belgium on the RAVeL network in Wallonia (southern french speaking part of belgium) :: Autonomous Network of Slow Ways ::
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/copy_of_waloon.wav
http://ravel.wallonie.be/
(sound quality is not great, but is still audible- interesting questions asked later)
DANIEL MOURIEK, speaking on behalf of easter europes greenway network; wine routes, loops of backbone, animal trails, greenways through trouble lands.
a bottom up approach to developing this network
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/daniel.wav
eastern european greenways
http://www.nadacepartnerstvi.cz/enindex.php
ECG has also developed its first community garden on the greenway in dolphins barn
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=69689
and there will be an open work/ play / picnic day in the garden the day before the cycle, sat 25th june, everybody is welcome
Comments (4 of 4)
Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4other bike stuff happened in dublin at the international Velo City conference that happened in dublin may 31st - june 3rd
http://www.velo-city2005.com/
audio report and pictures here from it after eventually sneeking in
http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=70101&condense_comments=false#comment110934
first audio is interview with Howard Boyd who talks about peace park project, eco tourism in the balkans, poor city planning in dublin, car free cities
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/howard.wav
BALKANS PEACE PARK PROJECT
micheal ahearne, DTO head
suspicion, inertia, impatience are the 3 factors holding up change he feels
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/aherne.wav
http://www.dto.ie/
Lieve Vermoere, Belgian Federal Ministry of Transport & Mobility
comparing ireland and belgium and how decentralised municipalities affect local change
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/belge.wav
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dgs/energy_transport/index_en.html
walk and talk through park with 2 DCC (dublin cycling campaign) people; Rob and Gordon
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/walkntalk.wav
http://home.connect.ie/dcc/
Andrew Montague, deputy lord mayor of dublin city, labour councilor:
outcomes from conference, how it could be improved upon, more involvement with local groups and better outreach needed.
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/andrew.wav
http://www.labour.ie/andrewmontague/
http://balkanspeacepark.org/index.htm
audio file from the meeting of the botanic spine greenway group and the C50 loop.
http://radio.indymedia.org/uploads/bikeways_group_agm.wav
we did another one last sunday
3 of us, stopped in garden for @ 5 hours
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