Mountain biking in Ticknock wood

Here is a link to map of my cycle in Ticknock today. Great spin. Fair play to Coillte on setting this up. A great resource so close to the city. Managed not to injure myself. Already looking forward to the next trip.

Responses from the councillors

Even though yesterday was a public holiday I got email responses from 2 of the members of the Celbridge Committee last night. They have their meeting today (happens every couple of months roughly) so the timing is perfect.
Responders were:
1. Frank O'Rourke(FF). They are getting a lot of flack at the moment, but he has impressed me so far. Now if the paths really do get swept... Here is a link to Frank O'Rourke's details on the KCC site.
2. Senan Griffin (FG). He gave me his mobile number and told me he would raise the issue at today's meeting. And here are Senan Griffin's details.

I have never contacted a councillor before, so maybe I should not be surprised, but this is a hell of a lot better than just moaning about a problem (and fixing the punctures).

Members of Kildare County Council

As part of being more useful, I have decided that I am going to get more politically involved. Writing to representatives, finding out who they are. That sort of thing. To that end here is a list of the members of the Celbridge Area Committee of Kildare County Council:

I have written to each of them to see if I can get the cycle paths in Celbridge swept - lots of glass on them at the moment. Not exactly life changing stuff, but I will be interested to see how they respond.

Here is a link to the Celbridge Area meeting agendas for this year. They post minutes too, but only last years are available so far.

Mountain biking and Coillte

I heard that there is a new mountain biking trail in the Dublin mountains. I looked at the Coillte website and could not find any reference to it. I sent them an email at about half ten on a Tuesday. They answered ten minutes later. Impressive service. Going to give the track a try this Saturday:
Here's the details.

Celbridge Cycle paths

Our local cycle paths have a lot of glass on them. I am not sure where it comes from, but it does not go anywhere except into my tyres :-)
I have written to the council - last week, the transport section directly - 2 days ago and just now a member of the council. Lots of silence coming back so far. Only response was one section telling me that they had forwarded this to another section.
More punctures on the way I think.