{"id":698898,"date":"2026-05-28T07:51:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/698898\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T07:51:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T07:51:09","slug":"why-aggressive-drivers-are-deterring-irish-women-from-cycling-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/698898\/","title":{"rendered":"Why aggressive drivers are deterring Irish women from cycling \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Aggressive driver behaviour, speeding, poor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cycling\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/cycling\/\" target=\"_blank\">cycling<\/a> infrastructure and the increased size of vehicles are deterring women from getting on their bikes, research by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/transport-infrastructure-ireland\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/tags\/transport-infrastructure-ireland\/\" target=\"_blank\">Transport Infrastructure Ireland<\/a> (TII) has found.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Most women in Ireland can cycle and have access to a bike, but are only half as likely as men to choose cycling as a mode of travel, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/websitecms.tii.ie\/media\/cladiorn\/empowering-women-to-cycle-insights-beyond-numbers.pdf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/websitecms.tii.ie\/media\/cladiorn\/empowering-women-to-cycle-insights-beyond-numbers.pdf\">Empowering Women to Cycle<\/a> report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">And all those jibes about women being worried about \u201chelmet hair\u201d? They don\u2019t hold up in the research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Half of those surveyed said unsafe roads were a barrier to cycling. And then there was the fear of being on the receiving end of verbal abuse from drivers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">So what has to change to encourage women to cycle?<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Irish Times Dublin editor and daily cyclist Olivia Kelly explains.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Presented by Bernice Harrison. Produced by Andrew McNair with additional research by Ellen Clusker. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aggressive driver behaviour, speeding, poor cycling infrastructure and the increased size of vehicles are deterring women from getting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698899,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[49,48,635,82,246491],"class_list":["post-698898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-transport-infrastructure-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698898","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=698898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}