“On-street parking will be retained along Ballyhooly Rd and Summerhill, with bus priority being achieved through the use of bus gates operating at morning and evening rush hour, in combination with turning restrictions and traffic signals”
Who is it proposed will enforce the bus gates.
We know that in Ireland peoplw simply can’t be trusted to follow rules and signs on the road. So unless there is a camera or a garda there the whole time, or it’s a physical barrier, then it won’t be real.
Dissapointing to see that a lot of the cutbacks are on the north side. It badly needs improved public transport, and while I personally think a lot of that should come with the rail upgrades (if Blackpool were in Dublin it would’ve had a station long ago), much of it will still need buses.
I’d hope that if the STCs can’t be delivered due to public opposition alternatives can be found, perhaps advancing the northern distributer sooner.
Bit of a shame especially to maintain on street parking.
Same fucking saga as always. Decent plans are made so that people can get around walking, cycling and using public transport. The response from NIMBYs is “WhErE wIlL I pArK?”. Nowhere, you spanner. You live in a city, the tradeoff for living close to everything is that you can’t expect public space to be earmarked for storing your private property.
Transport plans that rely purely on buses are redundant by design. Such a lazy option as well. For such a small country, a bit of imagination could have us connected by rail to every nook and cranny. There’d be no housing crisis then.
I saw elsewhere plans had to be revised because the terrain is ‘hilly’. If that doesn’t tell you what you need to know about the degree of due diligence that was applied to the original planning, then nothing will.
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“On-street parking will be retained along Ballyhooly Rd and Summerhill, with bus priority being achieved through the use of bus gates operating at morning and evening rush hour, in combination with turning restrictions and traffic signals”
Who is it proposed will enforce the bus gates.
We know that in Ireland peoplw simply can’t be trusted to follow rules and signs on the road. So unless there is a camera or a garda there the whole time, or it’s a physical barrier, then it won’t be real.
Dissapointing to see that a lot of the cutbacks are on the north side. It badly needs improved public transport, and while I personally think a lot of that should come with the rail upgrades (if Blackpool were in Dublin it would’ve had a station long ago), much of it will still need buses.
I’d hope that if the STCs can’t be delivered due to public opposition alternatives can be found, perhaps advancing the northern distributer sooner.
Bit of a shame especially to maintain on street parking.
“Public pressure”, aka NIMBYs 
Same fucking saga as always. Decent plans are made so that people can get around walking, cycling and using public transport. The response from NIMBYs is “WhErE wIlL I pArK?”. Nowhere, you spanner. You live in a city, the tradeoff for living close to everything is that you can’t expect public space to be earmarked for storing your private property.
Transport plans that rely purely on buses are redundant by design. Such a lazy option as well. For such a small country, a bit of imagination could have us connected by rail to every nook and cranny. There’d be no housing crisis then.
I saw elsewhere plans had to be revised because the terrain is ‘hilly’. If that doesn’t tell you what you need to know about the degree of due diligence that was applied to the original planning, then nothing will.