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