{"id":7981,"date":"2014-04-12T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/?p=7981"},"modified":"2023-10-18T20:01:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T03:01:06","slug":"ireland-rebuilding-towns-for-people-and-not-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2014\/04\/12\/ireland-rebuilding-towns-for-people-and-not-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland Rebuilding Towns for People and not cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The republic of Ireland is picking towns all across the nation to rebuild them for the purpose of human power and not cars. The nearby (to me here in Co Mayo in the west of Ireland) \u00a0town of Claremorris was just blessed with a 431,000 euro gift to do so per:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><em>Claremorris was selected this week as one of nine towns in the country that will become an Active Travel Town. The initiative has seen each of the towns get funding for local cycling and walking strategies, including new cycle-lanes, the provision of walkways, and behavioural change initiatives in local schools and workplaces to encourage people to switch their transport mode.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The whole story is <span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.advertiser.ie\/mayo\/article\/68478\/claremorris-to-become-an-active-travel-town\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">HERE<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is so heartening to see other parts of the world are making a reality of ideas we activists fought hard to win acceptance for in the USA &#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The republic of Ireland is picking towns all across the nation to rebuild them for the purpose of human power&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2014\/04\/12\/ireland-rebuilding-towns-for-people-and-not-cars\/\">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":[58,9,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-greenway","category-ireland","category-nbggrabbag"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3VuuR-24J","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":418,"url":"https:\/\/www.bikeroute.com\/NationalBicycleGreenwayNews\/2012\/06\/13\/137860313\/","url_meta":{"origin":7981,"position":0},"title":"Newport, Changing the Face of Ireland with Bikes!","author":"awakeagainmartin@gmail.com","date":"June 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Part of the (car) road trip we did in the west of Ireland included a stop in Newport, a small village, until recently dimissed by many as a dreary ghost town not worthy of a visit. 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