Ola Løkken Nordrum
🌱 Fighting for a fairer, greener and healthier planet for all!
🌍 Climate and Sustainability Fellow
🩺 Roaming Anaesthesiology Trainee
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💭 #ReimagineDublin
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- This is cycling in Copenhagen. No hi-vis. No helmet mandates. People cycle because it’s safe — by design. This is what cycling should look like. Ireland is moving in the opposite direction. Instead of designing safe places to cycle, we're blaming the people cycling...
- This is 100% applicable to Ireland.
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- Copenhagen is far from perfect, but the Danes get a lot right. Dublin has the potential to truly “compete” with Copenhagen as a so-called 'perfect city', whatever that means. But right now, the Danes are living it, while those of us in Dublin are stuck with… well, very little. #ReimagineDublin
- “Irish educated engineers cannot be assumed to have an understanding of the literature, or practice of road design, around avoiding conflicts between motor vehicles and cyclists”. Based on my experience with Irish active transport infrastructure, I would agree with this statement.
- "While some parts of Dublin were turned into a cyclist’s dream under the last government, the capital still has a long way to go to meet Amsterdam or Paris in cutting car pollution." "A cyclist's dream" ⁉️ What a mad statement. There's nowhere in Dublin that's anywhere close to a 'cyclist's dream'.
- Interesting idea for sure! However, it should ideally connect seamlessly to a LUAS line and it doesn't look like we'll have any new or extended LUAS lines anytime soon...
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- It is grossly negligent for a national broadcaster to report on Ryanair’s profit margins without once mentioning emissions, given it is one of Europe’s biggest CO₂ emitters. This is not journalism. It is head in the sand reporting with a generous helping of free corporate PR.
- It is not cycling that is dangerous but driving.
- When was the last time you asked nature how it is? It’s beyond time we got the conversation between us, humans, and nature going again.
- Beg buttons relegate pedestrians to second-class citizens, forcing them to apply just to cross the road safely. It’s time to get rid of them and prioritise people, not cars. #ReimagineDublin
- Reposted by Ola Løkken Nordrum30 times more money is spent destroying nature than protecting it www.unep.org/news-and-sto...
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- A to-do list for the Government from the Irish Times and friends… Zero mention of climate change, emissions, biodiversity or nature. The planet is on fire, but apparently that didn’t make the cut.
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- Of all the complaints in this article, this one stands out: “When will motorists get something? I’ve yet to see any plans to improve infrastructure for those that drive.” A reminder to the submitter: cars already own Ireland. Our towns, cities, and transport policy have long been built around them.
- I'm all for innovation, but if we are to fix Dublin's broken transport system, we need a coherent, expert-led strategy, not a collection of small, piecemeal ideas from Mary and John, tinkering at the edges of a systemic problem. My letter in the Irish Times this morning!
- Fixing a broken transport system should not fall on the public. However, a fully integrated transport app would be a practical and visible first step, allowing people to plan complete door-to-door journeys, pay seamlessly, and track all transport modes in real time.
- My most recent Substack explores the missed potential of Ireland’s sauna revival. If we let them, saunas can become powerful community creators. They can bring people together, reconnect us with our surroundings, and turn underused or derelict areas into spaces of health and wellbeing.
- More deflection and distraction from the real problem: cars and drivers. I'd support mandatory bike lights at night, but forcing people to wear a separate cycling outfit isn’t evidence-based, shows a poor understanding of the issue, and will deter many from cycling.
- A damning account.
- I wrote this piece on how saunas could help clean Ireland’s waterways and make us healthier about a year ago. It is as relevant today! #BlueHealth 🌊
- Wholly inadequate. If you multiplied this by four or five and borrowed a few hundred Dutch and Danish planners for a few years we might get somewhere, but alas.
- Time to put policy into action. PS. not surprised that Irish voices were looking for a derogation...
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- Who really benefits from the current farming system? Certainly not the farmers, locked into rising input costs and shrinking margins. Certainly not the insects. Definitely not the ecosystems that sustain us.
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- One of the saddest, weirdest dystopian takes I've read in a while. Ireland excels at airport security. Great 🙄
- Very relevant to Ireland and our relationship (or lack) with the natural world.
- Excellent piece on ultra-processed foods. We have the solutions. The questions is, will our politicians act?
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- Loving the inflammatory, hostile headline... 🙄
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- Just to be clear: Dublin does not, in any shape or form, resemble Amsterdam. Meaningful progress requires honesty: incremental additions of cycle infrastructure, however welcome, are routinely presented as transformative. They are not. The overall network remains deeply inadequate.
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- In other words, the ideal car for Dublin.
- There is something very wrong with how Ireland is managed. Given our lack of nature in Ireland, restricting access to such a treasured amenity for years, has real, negative consequences for public health.
- In Ireland, people drive to the shop 1km away to buy a pint of milk. That is not the fault of the individual, but the result of decades upon decades of car centric policies. Anyways, well done to the Finns 🇫🇮
- You'd love to see some ambition in Ireland. The Danish plan is far from perfect, but it does show what is possible with a smidge of political leadership and maybe a few (Danish) beers! A much needed piece from the forever brilliant @whittledaway.bsky.social!
- One of the best pieces I've read in The Irish Times in years! Spot on @jenniecstephens.bsky.social!
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- Our climate is spiralling out of control.
- What on earth are DCC playing at with this “infrastructure”? As far removed from world-class active travel infrastructure as it gets: confusing, unattractive, narrow, and suddenly cyclists are switched from the left side of the road to the right. And while you’re at it, get off X!
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- Judges are expected to approach cases with impartiality, deciding on the evidence and the law rather than personal views. Judicial remarks carry real weight, and framing a case this way distracts from the underlying issue: chronic failures in infrastructure that put all road users at risk.
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- If Ireland wants to protect our farmers, strengthening our internal markets, supporting domestic supply chains and valuing food security over cheapness would be a far more credible response than outrage alone. Very insightful read from @aislinnn.bsky.social this morning!
