Episode 4 – Monday June 27th
Simon gets up close and personal to some of Ireland’s biggest vehicles and takes an honest look at the EV car with Geraldine Herbert. He travels to Bilbao to look at a city, that seems to have got it right when it comes to climate action and safe travel and visits a neighbourhood in Barcelona trying to solve their mobility issues by banning cars. He also looks at the major issues facing the vulnerable road users all across Ireland.
Series Overview
How we travel in Ireland is going to fundamentally change over the next few years. Ireland’s new Road Safety Strategy aims to half road deaths and serious injuries by 2030 and bring that number down to zero by 2050 through measures that will, in turn, impact climate action issues such as congestion, emissions and noise pollution.
Over this four-part series, Simon Delaney looks at the big issues facing Ireland when it comes to road safety, shared mobility, and climate action. He finds out how we might make travel in Ireland safer, greener, and simply more pleasant, not just for the road users but also for the people living in the areas we move through.
To do this, Simon visits some of our European neighbours to look at what they are doing to reduce road collisions whilst keeping their traffic moving in a safer, greener, and more effective way. He then spends time with the teams tasked with keeping our roads and road users safe as well as the people behind the positive changes happening across Ireland.
He will be joined by Journalist Geraldine Herbert and Conor Pope to look at both the current state and the future of cars and our road networks as well why our capital city ranks among the most congested in Europe and the ongoing challenges of getting people out of cars and onto public transport, bikes, or walking.