Sustainable Travel City businesses and community groups will be offered the opportunity to avail of a fleet of cargo bikes after Cork City Council was one of 20 projects to receive funding from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform’s Public Service Innovation Fund. The cargo bike library project is aimed at encouraging active travel, especially in the retail and business sector but also at increasing the use of cargo bikes in the wider private sector and public sector. Under the scheme, it is planned that suitable business and community groups will be offered a cargo bike for six months on a trial basis to see if they could use a cargo bike on a daily basis as an alternative to less sustainable means of transport. Across Europe, it is estimated that 50% of all motorised trips that involve the transport of goods in cities could be shifted to cargo bikes and bicycles. The diversity of cargo bikes is astonishing. Cargo bikes take many different shapes and forms. Besides the cyclist, they can carry goods and people of up to 250 kg and can even be coupled with a trailer for extra capacity.
It is expected that the cargo bike library will be in place by the end of this year following procurement of the fleet.
Cycling Map
Sustainable transport has also been working with Cork Sports Partnership, Cork Cycling Community and the TMF in developing a cycling map to highlight cycling routes that can be used by people using adaptive cycles.
Road Safety
Sustainable Travel has emailed every primary school within the city to offer a road safety programme in conjunction with the Gardaí. This programme will be largely aimed at the junior classes who have missed a lot of road safety training due to covid.
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