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An Evaluation Of The Safety Of The Cycling In Dublin City For Dit Students, Niamh O' Reilly
An Evaluation Of The Safety Of The Cycling In Dublin City For Dit Students, Niamh O' Reilly
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Cycling as a mode of transport offers many benefits including a cheap, cost effective, healthy, fast, mainly congestion free and environmentally friendly means of getting to and from places of employment and education. Given the central location of Technological University Dublin campus buildings this would seem an ideal option for its third level students, but on the contrary, a DIT online travel survey conducted in March 2014 found that only 7% of students chose cycling as their primary mode of transport. Concerns about cyclist safety were a major factor cited by students who chose alternative modes of transport. Based on …