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Pic: Sean Dwyer Green Party leader Eamon Ryan has vowed to allocate 20 per cent of the transport budget to cycling and walking infrastructure if elected.

Arriving up to an interview in EVOKE.ie with his helmet in hand, the father-of-four appears to practice the eco-friendly ethos that is at the core of his partys policies.

An avid cyclist, Eamon ran both Irish Cycling Safaris and Belfield Bike Shop before his career in politics, during which he became the founding chairman of the Dublin Cycling Campaign.

The politician outlined his plan to make the roads safer and less chaotic for Irish road users ahead of the General Election on February 8th.

Asked what his plans were for the cyclists of Ireland he said: Changing the whole world Why not be ambitious.

Dublin, Cork, Waterford and Limerick should be like Copenhagen and Amsterdam.

I can get from here to any point on the M50 in less than 40 minutes but its not safe.

Even cities that are famous for the car, theyre pulling up highways and putting up metros.

Paris has completely changed in terms of how they do transport so lets go like Paris, he explained.

Eamonn Ryan meets Sybil Mulcahy Editor EVOKE.ie.

Pic: Sean Dwyer Discussing plans to improve treacherous conditions for both cyclists and pedestrians he said: It has to happen.

Its part of this whole climate story, transport is one of our biggest areas of emissions and its about giving space and creating a safe space and a consistent safe space so its all the way along.

As well as the quays in Dublin, Eamon wants functioning cycle routes along the canals, the Tolka, the Dodder, and between Sandycove to Sutton which he believes will be spectacular.

Eamon Ryan leader of The Green Party visited the offices of DMG Media Ltd today with John Lee, Political Editor for Mail on Sunday.

Pic: Sean Dwyer Theyre kind of leisure routes and if you then have the Bus Connects going in on the arterial roads, you have a network and you can get anywhere relatively safely and I think that means we have to spend about 10 of the transport budget on cycling, 10 on walking, we often forget about walking but its equally important, he said of his intentions to finance the improvements.

Unless you resource it, unless you prioritise it, it wont happen and I think that s one of the questions of this election.

People have a choice of seeing if we want to keep going putting all of our money into motorways or do we want to start providing, walking, cycling and public transport solutions which is what we stand for.

Eamonn Ryan meets EVOKE Entertainment Reporter Fionnuala Moran.

Pic: Sean Dwyer Anytime weve done it like if you look at that route along the Grand Canal, you see the number of cyclists there.

That increased 50 immediately as soon as it was made safer and I think in Dublin, the Bus Connects project is a chance to do that.

Discussing the initially controversial Bus Connects project Eamon said: I think they got it wrong at first.

It was all about four lanes everywhere, taking all of the trees out and people rightly said, No, we want to live in a community not a corridor.

Eamonn Ryan meets EVOKE Deputy Editor Jessica OSullivan and EVOKE Entertainment Reporter Fionnuala Moran.

Pic: Sean Dwyer He believe the revised plans are better and continued: I think one of the real benefits is that its going to make cycling safer and it will take three or four years to do it but I think its going to change Dublin and I think we need to do the same in Cork, Galway, Waterford and Limerick as well, and in every town.

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