Great news. I seem to spend half my life standing at crossings waiting for cars to pass and the light to go green.
I hope M50 is not going to be even more packed tho
Fast turnaround from the public consultation, great to see!
Fair play to Greens. It’s a shame they kinda sold their souls by going in with FF and FG, and are going to suffer terribly come the next election, but at least got some pretty decent small things like this that will actually benefit the majority.
Can’t talk of all the restrictions, but the Westland Row one will be easy to avoid. Already, when there is heavy traffic on Westland Row, people drive down the next parallel street, Cumberland Street. They ignore the [no entry signs](https://maps.app.goo.gl/jG3LqGwhuTz6BhGZ6) that are just ahead of a school entrance. This already leads to loads of close calls with kids every year, and it will just become worse.
So stupid. They just need to build more lanes.
Let’s face it, there will be zero enforcement and nothing will change. Just look at the bus corridor on the corner of dame street. Still tons of private cars going through it because there is zero enforcement or Gardai concerned with traffic violations
Great. I’ll just use the Metro instead. Oh, wait..
This is absolutely brilliant and fair play to the Greens for pushing something like through. Other cities around the world are being transformed by similar projects.
Expect the very vocal car folk to be up in arms but most people in Dulin don’t own a car so it benefits a hell of a lot more people than them.
Ah, sure who wants Northside south of the Liffey anyway,…
Ironic to get those two threads right one by the other
One of the few times I’m glad the greens only give a fuck about inside the M50. I’m sure it’ll all go smoothly.
Delighted we had the foresight to build all that amazing public transport.
Oh wait.
Fantastic news. The current arrangement is unfair. tens of thousands of daily bus users with the city as their final destination get stuck on the quays for substantial amounts of time, just to facilitate a relative handful of drivers to pass thru it. The removal of private cars is the only short-term solution to improve our current modes of public transport
This seems like good thinking, much better for people actually in the city.
Seems better than a ban on say, diesel cars in the city center, although I can still see that happening in the next decade.
Seems like a great idea tbh. Its mad that people are driving through the city centre.
Great stuff. Well done Eamonn and the Greens. I’ll will be voting Green next election too because y’know **we need to decarbonise our entire economy as rapidly as possible**. Also less cars make a city more pleasant to be in.
I don’t think this will end up happening. Or maybe a much more watered down version.
A lot of people from beyond the M50 travel up to the IFSC/Docklands for work. How will they be able to get into those areas? It’s not like there’s a viable alternative. The Luas takes hours to get in from the Red Cow, the trains from half the country terminate at Heuston. Give people better alternatives, and they will use them. Otherwise the cars will shift to using existing side roads, completely overload the M50 and increase the delays in the port tunnel.
while a good idea , i can see this causing issues
Nice my 30 minute 18km drive to work is now being replaced by 1.5 hour bus journey to the office
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Great news
Great news. I seem to spend half my life standing at crossings waiting for cars to pass and the light to go green.
I hope M50 is not going to be even more packed tho
Fast turnaround from the public consultation, great to see!
Fair play to Greens. It’s a shame they kinda sold their souls by going in with FF and FG, and are going to suffer terribly come the next election, but at least got some pretty decent small things like this that will actually benefit the majority.
Can’t talk of all the restrictions, but the Westland Row one will be easy to avoid. Already, when there is heavy traffic on Westland Row, people drive down the next parallel street, Cumberland Street. They ignore the [no entry signs](https://maps.app.goo.gl/jG3LqGwhuTz6BhGZ6) that are just ahead of a school entrance. This already leads to loads of close calls with kids every year, and it will just become worse.
So stupid. They just need to build more lanes.
Let’s face it, there will be zero enforcement and nothing will change. Just look at the bus corridor on the corner of dame street. Still tons of private cars going through it because there is zero enforcement or Gardai concerned with traffic violations
Great. I’ll just use the Metro instead. Oh, wait..
This is absolutely brilliant and fair play to the Greens for pushing something like through. Other cities around the world are being transformed by similar projects.
Expect the very vocal car folk to be up in arms but most people in Dulin don’t own a car so it benefits a hell of a lot more people than them.
Ah, sure who wants Northside south of the Liffey anyway,…
https://preview.redd.it/vrvzzwp4e6hc1.png?width=607&format=png&auto=webp&s=19d01cdb2488a2ad13e01fc479b9d1879a5516f1
Ironic to get those two threads right one by the other
One of the few times I’m glad the greens only give a fuck about inside the M50. I’m sure it’ll all go smoothly.
Delighted we had the foresight to build all that amazing public transport.
Oh wait.
Fantastic news. The current arrangement is unfair. tens of thousands of daily bus users with the city as their final destination get stuck on the quays for substantial amounts of time, just to facilitate a relative handful of drivers to pass thru it. The removal of private cars is the only short-term solution to improve our current modes of public transport
This seems like good thinking, much better for people actually in the city.
Seems better than a ban on say, diesel cars in the city center, although I can still see that happening in the next decade.
Seems like a great idea tbh. Its mad that people are driving through the city centre.
Great stuff. Well done Eamonn and the Greens. I’ll will be voting Green next election too because y’know **we need to decarbonise our entire economy as rapidly as possible**. Also less cars make a city more pleasant to be in.
I don’t think this will end up happening. Or maybe a much more watered down version.
A lot of people from beyond the M50 travel up to the IFSC/Docklands for work. How will they be able to get into those areas? It’s not like there’s a viable alternative. The Luas takes hours to get in from the Red Cow, the trains from half the country terminate at Heuston. Give people better alternatives, and they will use them. Otherwise the cars will shift to using existing side roads, completely overload the M50 and increase the delays in the port tunnel.
while a good idea , i can see this causing issues
Nice my 30 minute 18km drive to work is now being replaced by 1.5 hour bus journey to the office