Dublin Metropolitan Area Walking and Cycling Index
Formerly known as Bike Life, this is the UK and Ireland's biggest ever study of walking, wheeling and cycling.
530,000 return active travel trips are made daily in the Metropolitan Area by people that could have used a car. These trips play a vital role in helping to create a more sustainable, more liveable Metropolitan Area and wider region.
Every year, walking and cycling in Dublin Metropolitan Area results in:
4,373
serious long-term health conditions prevented
€2.39 billion
in economic benefit for individuals and the region
120,000 tonnes
of greenhouse gas emissions saved
Up to 530,000
cars taken off the road every day
Deryck Fay, Technology consultant
I walk and use public transport a lot. My husband does drive, but we chose to live near the city because it’s nice to have places that are walkable.
Since Covid, there has been a good extension of bicycle lanes, the barriers are still temporary. When the traffic signals were designed, they were designed to maximise car traffic flow, not pedestrian flow. As a pedestrian, I feel at the bottom of the hierarchy, rather than at the top.
For me, the biggest thing that could change things would be zebra crossings – because they give pedestrians priority. People know what they mean.
We have deliberately been to Blackrock and Dun Laoghaire because there is space to walk, spend time, bring the dog, and so on – the changes they’ve made there have made it somewhere that we want to spend time in.
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See Dublin Metropolitan Area's vision for walking, wheeling and cycling.
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Dublin Metropolitan Area through the years
This is the third time we've collaborated with the National Transport Authority of Ireland to survey active travel in the city. Download our previous reports: