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Last Updated: 2 Apr 2018 - 8:45:17 PM |
How do we get more people to cycle to work and school in Dublin ?
Anybody who has cycled more than five kilometers everyday to work in Dublin for the last twenty years or more is a hero.
Why - Because they have saved the state thousands of euro.
So how do we get thousands of people to cycle to work and school in Dublin?
We reward them.
CHIPS are the answer. YES - micro chips.
Every runner in the Dublin City Marathon carries a micro chip for recording their finishing time, cars have them for easy pass on our motorways, my wheely bin has one, the neighbours dog has one. Getting a chip on your bike should be voluntary but when you do get a chip, you should get a special number.
Around the city there would be “stations” where your chip could be recorded as you cycle by, say you live in Finglas village and work in the Mater Hospital, perhaps you would be recorded crossing the Tolka River and again crossing Cross Guns Bridge on the canal.
Now for the reward, all recorded chips in one week would be in for a lottery or raffle for that week, and continuing every week. Cycling longer trips would give you more chances in the lottery, our friend from Finglas having two hits going to work and two hits going home for five days would have twenty chances. Dublin should aim for 50,000 people cycling to and from work and when that target is reached a prize of ONE MILLION EURO should be offered.
After all you’re worth it.
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