The environmental charity is starting a campaign through its 'Green-Schools' initiative, to try to encourage schoolgirls in particular to cycle.An Taisce said teenage girls face a range of social barriers that need to be addressed if they are to feel secure and confident on bikes. These barriers are on top of the safety concerns that prevent many people from cycling.
Green-Schools said that for Ireland to move towards becoming a carbon neutral economy, and to develop sustainable transport, cycling needs to become a viable option for everyday journeys for everyone.By 2002, that proportion had fallen to just one in ten and that imbalance has not changed since then, An Taisce said.
However, they also outlined one other physical barrier unique to them - school skirts and said wearing a skirt restricts their movement and also makes them feel self-conscious. "A lot of people, particularly men drivers, tend to yell at us and they are just really unkind and they yell horrible things," Kate said. "It's horrible," she adds. "We really take it to heart.""It just makes me feel really uncomfortable and really inferior." Another girl spoke about a group of boys who shout at her when they see her on her bicycle. "It’s so embarrassing," she said. "I am already red from cycling and I just get redder.
And yet the report said that this all girls school in Donnybrook had a higher than average percentage of students cycling.
The absolute state of Dublin that girls don't feel safe cycling to school. For shame.
Who would ride a bike in a skirt
Its easier for my daughter when she cycles wearing trousers
Well as you can see from photo what would firstly help is getting rid of unpractical mandatory woolen skirts.
dublincycling ADublinBusLane DublinCommuters riccipower1 poflanagan Shane_RossTD CiaranCuffe I can’t help but read the line “so called risk taking males” as a veiled insult. Is the more worrying aspect of this not that people feel like cycling puts their life at risk?
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