{"id":452770,"date":"2026-02-04T06:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/452770\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T06:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:46:07","slug":"cycling-awareness-lessons-should-be-mandatory-to-gain-a-driving-licence-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/452770\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycling awareness lessons should be mandatory to gain a driving licence \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Sir \u2013 One thing the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/government\/\">Government<\/a> could do to improve the lives of all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/road-safety\/\">road<\/a>-using citizens in 2026 and beyond would be to oblige all those who wish to gain a driver\u2019s licence to undertake a mandatory 50 hours of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cycling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cycling\/\">cycling<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Having a greater awareness of one of the most vulnerable groups of road users would be a good lesson. It would also give a greater understanding of the reasons for the rules of the road. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">All pupils should have this opportunity as part of their Leaving Certificate. Fifty hours of cycling including theory and practical lessons would mean that they would leave school confident and skilful road users. \u2013 Yours, etc,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">ROSEANNE SMITH,<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph paywall \">Baile \u00c1tha Cliath 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir \u2013 One thing the Government could do to improve the lives of all road-using citizens in 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,59205,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-452770","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-leaving-certificate","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=452770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/452770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=452770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=452770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=452770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}