Kevin Burke
@kevburkeie.bsky.social
Urban Planner specialising in sustainable transport. Liveable cities advocate. Daon-Phoblacht Chorcaí.
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Well, if it’s dark - no. Bluntly, no.
High-visibility only works in light. At distance at night, it won’t even give as much warning as reflective materials, still less lights.
And that assumes the idiot drivers are even paying attention. One gets rather tired of the victim-blaming on the roads.
High-visibility only works in light. At distance at night, it won’t even give as much warning as reflective materials, still less lights.
And that assumes the idiot drivers are even paying attention. One gets rather tired of the victim-blaming on the roads.
👀 Can you see me now?
The importance of visibility on our roads cannot be understated, particularly for vulnerable road users including pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooter drivers and motorcyclists.
#CanYouSeeMeNow #KeepingPeopleSafe
The importance of visibility on our roads cannot be understated, particularly for vulnerable road users including pedestrians, cyclists, e-scooter drivers and motorcyclists.
#CanYouSeeMeNow #KeepingPeopleSafe
November 27, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Well, if it’s dark - no. Bluntly, no.
High-visibility only works in light. At distance at night, it won’t even give as much warning as reflective materials, still less lights.
And that assumes the idiot drivers are even paying attention. One gets rather tired of the victim-blaming on the roads.
High-visibility only works in light. At distance at night, it won’t even give as much warning as reflective materials, still less lights.
And that assumes the idiot drivers are even paying attention. One gets rather tired of the victim-blaming on the roads.
More good news. New Garda Commissioner seems to have made a v positive start. Proactive, targeted lobbying as well. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
48 gardaí assigned to high-visibility policing plan for Cork City
There will be 11 beats across the city which have been selected for patrols between 8am and 4am daily, with 11 gardaí on duty during daytime hours, with 12 on duty during the night.
www.irishexaminer.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:37 PM
More good news. New Garda Commissioner seems to have made a v positive start. Proactive, targeted lobbying as well. www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster...
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what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland
November 23, 2025 at 5:27 PM
what a surprise, majority of fash "Ireland is full" posts on shitter are from outside Ireland
Families who drive children to school have 'tremendous sense of entitlement' | Newstalk share.google/ZOW636FbtzAK...
Families who drive children to school have 'tremendous sense of entitlement'
Parents to switch off their car engines while waiting outside school as part of a campaign to mark Clean Air Week.
share.google
November 19, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Families who drive children to school have 'tremendous sense of entitlement' | Newstalk share.google/ZOW636FbtzAK...
High time we started going after these money laundering schemes www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
‘Success is shutting them down’: Met police in fight against illegal vape and phone shops
Products that fail fire safety checks, are counterfeit and breach laws protecting children targeted in raids in London
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
High time we started going after these money laundering schemes www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Always amazes me how people see these guys as a left-wing party...
November 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Always amazes me how people see these guys as a left-wing party...
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It’s getting harder and harder to avoid concluding that the people who keep voting for shitty people are shitty people themselves.
October 31, 2025 at 5:00 PM
It’s getting harder and harder to avoid concluding that the people who keep voting for shitty people are shitty people themselves.
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I was always certain taking Arseblog off Twitter was the right thing to do, but stuff like this makes me very happy I did.
This is a deranged billionaire unaccountable to anyone using his platform to incite violence. Grim.
This is a deranged billionaire unaccountable to anyone using his platform to incite violence. Grim.
Elon Musk: "It is time for the English to ally with the hard men, like Tommy Robinson, and fight for their survival or they shall surely all die" 29th October 2025. 2 million views in its first hour.
October 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I was always certain taking Arseblog off Twitter was the right thing to do, but stuff like this makes me very happy I did.
This is a deranged billionaire unaccountable to anyone using his platform to incite violence. Grim.
This is a deranged billionaire unaccountable to anyone using his platform to incite violence. Grim.
Completely with Brian Leddin here. As someone that votes centre-left and pro-EU, I can't get my head around how so many can simply ignore this stuff.
October 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Completely with Brian Leddin here. As someone that votes centre-left and pro-EU, I can't get my head around how so many can simply ignore this stuff.
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Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
Cardiff set to tackle SUV 'carspreading' in UK first
Cardiff Council is set to become the first local authority in the UK to introduce higher parking charges for SUVs and other heavy vehicles, in a move campaigners say will make city streets safer and f...
nation.cymru
October 16, 2025 at 6:43 AM
Cardiff will be the first UK city to introduce a surcharge for oversized SUVs and trucks, "while very large vehicles – those over 3,500kg – will be excluded from residential permits entirely."
Benny MaCabes takes on Cork City are always worth listening to. It's a very positive, optimistic podcast despite the headline. www.irishexaminer.com/business/com...
The ieBusiness Podcast: Publican Benny McCabe slams overbearing regulations
The publican is one of Cork's top proponents of city living
www.irishexaminer.com
October 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Benny MaCabes takes on Cork City are always worth listening to. It's a very positive, optimistic podcast despite the headline. www.irishexaminer.com/business/com...
Ciaran Ferrie's piece in @irishexaminer.bsky.social nails the Govts capitulation on the Speed Limit Review. Identifying the urban roads that should be 50km (arterial) and 30km (everywhere else) is a relatively simple technical exercise with a small bit of guidance. Absolute cowardice.
September 30, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Ciaran Ferrie's piece in @irishexaminer.bsky.social nails the Govts capitulation on the Speed Limit Review. Identifying the urban roads that should be 50km (arterial) and 30km (everywhere else) is a relatively simple technical exercise with a small bit of guidance. Absolute cowardice.
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Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.
“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.
“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”
“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.
“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”
September 29, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.
“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.
“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”
“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.
“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”
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If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.
Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID
Every adult in Britain to require new ‘Brit Card’ ID
www.independent.co.uk
September 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
If this intends to make it legally compulsory for every adult in Derry to carry something called a "Brit Card", then I'm willing to offer some high-paid consultancy on why this plan might be flawed.
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In today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social I present a more targeted approach to VAT on eating out.
An approach that would help Ireland’s Climate Action Plan, by reducing food imports and exports, reducing the carbon footprint of our food.
Use more locally produced food and join a new lower VAT rate.
An approach that would help Ireland’s Climate Action Plan, by reducing food imports and exports, reducing the carbon footprint of our food.
Use more locally produced food and join a new lower VAT rate.
August 22, 2025 at 5:54 AM
In today’s @irishexaminer.bsky.social I present a more targeted approach to VAT on eating out.
An approach that would help Ireland’s Climate Action Plan, by reducing food imports and exports, reducing the carbon footprint of our food.
Use more locally produced food and join a new lower VAT rate.
An approach that would help Ireland’s Climate Action Plan, by reducing food imports and exports, reducing the carbon footprint of our food.
Use more locally produced food and join a new lower VAT rate.
Nice piece by Paul Rouse in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social on the GAA as a positive force for integrating immigrants.
September 19, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Nice piece by Paul Rouse in the @irishexaminer.bsky.social on the GAA as a positive force for integrating immigrants.
Clubbing options in mid-to-late 1990s in Cork.
September 14, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Clubbing options in mid-to-late 1990s in Cork.
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A lot of scare mongering about the proposed Greenway to Kinsale.
Unfortunately the noisy minority get the headlines
Thought this was a great contribution from Conn Murphy (farmer ) in Ballinhassig to the whole thing (southern star epaper)
Unfortunately the noisy minority get the headlines
Thought this was a great contribution from Conn Murphy (farmer ) in Ballinhassig to the whole thing (southern star epaper)
September 6, 2025 at 11:33 PM
A lot of scare mongering about the proposed Greenway to Kinsale.
Unfortunately the noisy minority get the headlines
Thought this was a great contribution from Conn Murphy (farmer ) in Ballinhassig to the whole thing (southern star epaper)
Unfortunately the noisy minority get the headlines
Thought this was a great contribution from Conn Murphy (farmer ) in Ballinhassig to the whole thing (southern star epaper)
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Ten years of DLR LexIcon in Dún Laoghaire: ‘People thought it was a vanity project and too much money’
"She says libraries are of the few non-religious buildings open to the community that people can just come into and sit down."
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
"She says libraries are of the few non-religious buildings open to the community that people can just come into and sit down."
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Ten years of DLR LexIcon in Dún Laoghaire: ‘People thought it was a vanity project and too much money’
Award-winning but initially controversial building has become Ireland’s busiest public library
www.irishtimes.com
September 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Ten years of DLR LexIcon in Dún Laoghaire: ‘People thought it was a vanity project and too much money’
"She says libraries are of the few non-religious buildings open to the community that people can just come into and sit down."
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
"She says libraries are of the few non-religious buildings open to the community that people can just come into and sit down."
www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
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Whispers *that's the French flag mate*
September 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Whispers *that's the French flag mate*
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Worth 3-5 mins of your time submitting a positive submission to this. A traffic-free greenway route between Cork City & Kinsale that gives a new lease of life to assets like the Chetwynd Viaduct, supports our economy & improves road safety is in the public interest corkkinsalegreenway.ie
August 22, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Worth 3-5 mins of your time submitting a positive submission to this. A traffic-free greenway route between Cork City & Kinsale that gives a new lease of life to assets like the Chetwynd Viaduct, supports our economy & improves road safety is in the public interest corkkinsalegreenway.ie
From @colmoregan.bsky.social piece @irishexaminer.bsky.social today & a tribute to the quality of work undertaken by both LA's to date (with more to come). When taking some Dutch cycling experts there last year, they commented that parts will need to be widened to accommodate future demand
August 22, 2025 at 2:15 PM
From @colmoregan.bsky.social piece @irishexaminer.bsky.social today & a tribute to the quality of work undertaken by both LA's to date (with more to come). When taking some Dutch cycling experts there last year, they commented that parts will need to be widened to accommodate future demand
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Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an urban forest. Stunning! 🤩
August 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Paris has removed the paving from its city hall square and transformed it into an urban forest. Stunning! 🤩
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Knowing it needed to adapt to survive the challenges of the 21st century, Alkmaar’s main shopping street of De Laat has undergone an extraordinary revitalisation; engaging the community in a reimagining process that introduced lush vegetation, water features, pedestrian priority, and ample seating.🧵
August 21, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Knowing it needed to adapt to survive the challenges of the 21st century, Alkmaar’s main shopping street of De Laat has undergone an extraordinary revitalisation; engaging the community in a reimagining process that introduced lush vegetation, water features, pedestrian priority, and ample seating.🧵