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Ola Løkken Nordrum

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🌱 Fighting for a fairer, greener and healthier planet for all! 🩺 Roaming Anaesthesiology Trainee. 🌍 Proud member of @irishdocsenv.bsky.social. 🔥 #BanFossilAds 💭 #ReimagineDublin ✍️ https://substack.com/@olanordrum

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 29d

Let’s be the first generation in Ireland to experience more, wilder and healthier nature, not less.

The benefits would be endless!

My piece in the Journal this week.

Opinion: We should aim to be the first generation to experience more nature, not less

Our relationship with nature is broken but fixing it could be the key to happier, healthier lives, writes Dr Ola Løkken Nordrum.

www.thejournal.ie

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 7h

@dublincommuters.bsky.social @dublincycling.bsky.social @ibike.ie @briancaulfield.bsky.social

Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 10h

My latest Substack is about the need for a fully integrated transport app for Dublin + surroundings.

This would be an easy win that could make travelling in the Dublin area a lot easier.

Please read and share!
#ReimagineDublin

We Need a Proper Transport App for Dublin. It’s 2025, Not 1998.

A basic integrated transport app isn’t innovation. It’s the bare minimum.

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 10h

Yea I used to cycle here all the time. It makes no sense. It's a terrible junction that doesn't really work for anyone at the moment.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 20h

Another major issue with this post is the claim that Dublin already has over 300 km of “good quality” active travel infrastructure.

As far as we’re aware, that figure refers to a future target, not something that has actually been delivered or even come close to being delivered.

Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 20h

Forgive me if I’m wrong, but isn’t international best practice not to mix pedestrians and cyclists at crossings?

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 20h

TAPA as in fast, quickness, or speed in Irish :)

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 20h

Forgive me if I’m wrong, but isn’t international best practice not to mix pedestrians and cyclists at crossings?

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yea, but a minister for transport or DCC could force through something like this if they really wanted to.

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 1d

You're right. A lot of people throughout the system blocking meaningful change.

Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 1d

Ah yea sure there are lots of problems with operations, but it starts with political will and at the moment, there is none + no ambition.

Contactless on Dublin public transport? 'It's happening,' says Transport Minister... in 2029

The contactless payments would allow those using public transport in Dublin to reduce their reliance on Leap cards and cash.

www.thejournal.ie

Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 1d

The LEAP card is outdated. It's time to move on and embrace smarter technologies.

I haven't seen much evidence of any real political will when it comes to truly changing Dublin's transport system - mainly a few bits tinkering on the edges.

We Need a Proper Transport App for Dublin. It’s 2025, Not 1998.

A basic integrated transport app isn’t innovation. It’s the bare minimum.

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 1d

Dublin desperately needs one fully integrated transport app, not a patchwork of half measures.

Read more about this in my latest Substack. Please share if you agree!
#ReimagineDublin #TAPA

We Need a Proper Transport App for Dublin. It’s 2025, Not 1998.

A basic integrated transport app isn’t innovation. It’s the bare minimum.

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 1d

There are certainly a few barriers to something like this, but nothing that couldn't fairly easily be overcome if there's a political will.

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 1d

Another beautiful Substack by @aislinnn.bsky.social!

"Maybe that’s the magic of lavender. It calms the mind, connects us to the land and makes even the busiest seasons feel softer."

Lavender's Light

A purple herb to soothe the season

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 1d

Meet TAPA — my vision for the fully integrated transport app Dublin should already have.

Dublin may not have the world’s best transport system (yet), but we can absolutely build a world-class transport app.

Would you use TAPA?
#ReimagineDublin

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 1d

Wouldn't blame this on one person. Iarnród Éireann and friends have perfected this grey, boring, ugly design. They use it all over the country.

Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 1d

Iarnród Éireann and friends have certainly perfected grey, boring, ugly designs.

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“We assume that car use is an incompressible liquid that must be routed somewhere. But it’s more more like a gas that fills whatever space it is given.”

—Ian Lockwood, Harvard Loeb Fellow, transport planner.

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Jonas Algers @jonasalgers.bsky.social · 2d

Norway are facing Israel in the Football World Cup qualifiers today

The Oslo Tram Driver’s Union will be striking on the tram lines to the stadium in solidarity with the people of Palestine

www.nrk.no/stor-oslo/va...

Varsler kollektiv-streik i Oslo før Norge-Israel

Oslo Sporveiers Arbeiderforening varsler streik 11. oktober, samme dag som Israel og Norge spiller landskamp i fotball på Ullevaal Stadion. Hensikten er å vise støtte til Palestina. Én time før kampst...

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John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 @thinkorswim.bsky.social · 2d

“We have now seen three of the five worst harvests on record this decade after extreme weather, telling a story of escalating #climate impacts that farmers are unable to cope with”.

Tick. Tock.

www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

England sees second worst harvest on record, analysis shows

Provisional Government data suggests a much worse harvest than experts had so far predicted.

www.independent.co.uk

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 2d

Plenty of positives with the Ceannt Station Redevelopment, but good grief, it’s fifty shades of grey... pun intended.

Like most Irish train stations, it could double as a 1940s prison set from a black-and-white movie.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 2d

It makes far more sense, economically, socially, and environmentally, to instead of flying, invest in a direct rail line to Derry and Donegal.

Such a project would reconnect and strengthen the island, while moving us toward a genuinely more sustainable and healthier transport future for all.

Opinion: Between lifting the cap and new Derry flights, is Darragh O'Brien minister for climate, or just transport?

Darragh O’Brien needs to make sure that his transport portfolio isn’t making things harder for his climate portfolio, Dr Catherine Conlon

www.thejournal.ie

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 3d

I don't think there is a point. He's just hating on people cycling and putting people up against each other instead of highlighting the underlying problems.

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Irish Doctors for the Environment @irishdocsenv.bsky.social · 3d

The Irish media have a lot to answer for when it comes to our failure to take action on both transport and housing, as they continue to publish absolute rubbish like this.

Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 3d

More nonsensical anti-cycling rhetoric from The Irish Times.

This nonsense tries to pit people cycling up against people trying to buy a home.

This kind of framing is nothing more than a distraction tactic, pitting ordinary people against each other instead of addressing the real issues.

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Ola Løkken Nordrum @olaln.bsky.social · 3d

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