{"id":14868,"date":"2019-07-25T12:08:34","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T19:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=14868"},"modified":"2023-10-18T19:59:04","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T02:59:04","slug":"dublin-irl-mayor-most-powerful-bike-activist-in-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2019\/07\/25\/dublin-irl-mayor-most-powerful-bike-activist-in-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Dublin, IRL Mayor &#8211; Most Powerful Bike Activist in World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dbvdg\" data-offset-key=\"466jo-0-0\">\n<div data-offset-key=\"466jo-0-0\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"14869\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2019\/07\/25\/dublin-irl-mayor-most-powerful-bike-activist-in-world\/screen-shot-2019-07-25-at-3-00-40-pm\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-25-at-3.00.40-PM.png?fit=264%2C266&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"264,266\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screen Shot 2019-07-25 at 3.00.40 PM\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-25-at-3.00.40-PM.png?fit=264%2C266&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14869 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-25-at-3.00.40-PM.png?resize=264%2C266\" alt=\"\" width=\"264\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-25-at-3.00.40-PM.png?w=264&amp;ssl=1 264w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-25-at-3.00.40-PM.png?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"466jo-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"466jo-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"466jo-0-0\">When I interviewed <\/span><span class=\"_247o\" spellcheck=\"false\" data-offset-key=\"466jo-1-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"466jo-1-0\"><strong>Andrew Montague<\/strong> in 2014<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"466jo-2-0\">, he was the most powerful, results getting bike activist in the world. <a href=\"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2014\/08\/01\/andrew-montague-former-dublin-irl-mayor-1-bike-activist-in-world\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Here is the podcast<\/strong><\/span><\/a> that resulted.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"padding: 7px;\">\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dbvdg\" data-offset-key=\"fsidg-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"fsidg-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dbvdg\" data-offset-key=\"2h6o5-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"2h6o5-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"2h6o5-0-0\">And here is the <a href=\"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2014\/09\/01\/big-fun-on-dublin-international-mayors-ride-micro-tour\/\"><strong>micro tour of Dublin, Ireland<\/strong><\/a> I did with him and powerful councillor, <\/span><strong><span class=\"_247o\" spellcheck=\"false\" data-offset-key=\"2h6o5-1-0\">Ciar\u00e1n Cuffe..<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dbvdg\" data-offset-key=\"d3vtm-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"d3vtm-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"d3vtm-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"dbvdg\" data-offset-key=\"6bjiv-0-0\">\n<div class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"6bjiv-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I interviewed Andrew Montague in 2014, he was the most powerful, results getting bike activist in the world. Here&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2019\/07\/25\/dublin-irl-mayor-most-powerful-bike-activist-in-world\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ireland","category-mayors-ride"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-3RO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8437,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2014\/08\/01\/andrew-montague-former-dublin-irl-mayor-1-bike-activist-in-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":14868,"position":0},"title":"Andrew Montague, Former Dublin, IRL Mayor &#8211; #1 Bike Activist in World?","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"August 1, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Andrew Montague, a Dublin, Ireland city councillor and formerly its Mayor who authored the most successful city bike share program in Europe and maybe the world, took some time to talk with us last week. 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I had bike activist and former Belmont Planning commissioner,\u00a0Gladwyn d'Souza, confused with Akos Szoboszlay when I wrote what I did last August (noted below), Akos and I just reconnected. 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