There’s a bit too much trying to please everyone (in most things in this country). At some point you’ve gotta tell someone to suck it up and do something.
It’s why Dublin needs a directly elected mayor
How can one gobshite of a junior minister delay this plan?? Tell her to fuck off and get on with it.
If you vote for parties which have no explicit commitment to a Dublin Mayor directly elected, you really don’t get to whinge about the outcomes.
Fine Gael voters, take a bow.
Can’t wait to see everyone struggling to drive through Lucan because they’ve no other means to get from North/South Dublin.
This is about the 100th time I have seen similar statemenr made on this topic in the last 20 years; and absolutely nothing significant has come of it. Metro is still a pipe dream, electrification is slower than a snail and so are reforms to existing networks not to mention the massive dilution down of it when it is applied (as you cam see.now with this issue and bus connects). Unfortunately, I have zero hope that anything major will change in the next 20, either.
There was an extensive consultation process for the Dublin City Transport Plan over the winter months, so it was astonishing to hear that Minister Emer Higgins and the Dublin Retail Forum, (neither of whom submitted anything to the consultation) want a postponement.
To add to an increasingly farcical situation, the chief executive Richard Shakespeare now wants to wait upon a report, commissioned by the self same Dublin Retail Forum. No prizes for guessing how this “unbiased “ report will turn out, commissioned by a group that includes multi storey car park owners.
Interestingly, the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, a much wider grouping, is actually supportive of the plan.
Dublin desperately needs a transport plan that can add a better quality of life to our city.
Vested interests have fought tooth and nail against civilised improvements to our cities, like pedestrianisation and cycle lanes. Ironically when these developments sometimes happen, everyone loves it…. I’m old enough to remember the battles over Grafton street?
This is a shockingly anti democratic move so soon after local elections and underlines why we need a directly elected mayor for Dublin, with proper executive powers.
This article is mystified as to why there are delays. The author has no idea what or who is causing these delays and why.
I left Ireland a few years ago, and I fully expect that I could come back in another 10 years and not a single goddamn thing will have changed in that time.
In some respects Ireland is so fucking far behind other developed countries it’s ridiculous.
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There’s a bit too much trying to please everyone (in most things in this country). At some point you’ve gotta tell someone to suck it up and do something.
It’s why Dublin needs a directly elected mayor
How can one gobshite of a junior minister delay this plan?? Tell her to fuck off and get on with it.
If you vote for parties which have no explicit commitment to a Dublin Mayor directly elected, you really don’t get to whinge about the outcomes.
Fine Gael voters, take a bow.
Can’t wait to see everyone struggling to drive through Lucan because they’ve no other means to get from North/South Dublin.
This is about the 100th time I have seen similar statemenr made on this topic in the last 20 years; and absolutely nothing significant has come of it. Metro is still a pipe dream, electrification is slower than a snail and so are reforms to existing networks not to mention the massive dilution down of it when it is applied (as you cam see.now with this issue and bus connects). Unfortunately, I have zero hope that anything major will change in the next 20, either.
There was an extensive consultation process for the Dublin City Transport Plan over the winter months, so it was astonishing to hear that Minister Emer Higgins and the Dublin Retail Forum, (neither of whom submitted anything to the consultation) want a postponement.
To add to an increasingly farcical situation, the chief executive Richard Shakespeare now wants to wait upon a report, commissioned by the self same Dublin Retail Forum. No prizes for guessing how this “unbiased “ report will turn out, commissioned by a group that includes multi storey car park owners.
Interestingly, the Dublin Chamber of Commerce, a much wider grouping, is actually supportive of the plan.
Dublin desperately needs a transport plan that can add a better quality of life to our city.
Vested interests have fought tooth and nail against civilised improvements to our cities, like pedestrianisation and cycle lanes. Ironically when these developments sometimes happen, everyone loves it…. I’m old enough to remember the battles over Grafton street?
This is a shockingly anti democratic move so soon after local elections and underlines why we need a directly elected mayor for Dublin, with proper executive powers.
This article is mystified as to why there are delays. The author has no idea what or who is causing these delays and why.
I left Ireland a few years ago, and I fully expect that I could come back in another 10 years and not a single goddamn thing will have changed in that time.
In some respects Ireland is so fucking far behind other developed countries it’s ridiculous.