Also, the state of this signage, bollards. What a nightmare.
Note – this article says “private cars” so expect Taxis to still be ripping around doing mad shite. And probably Lads in White Vans (the worst road user) driving to centra for breakfast rolls.
If they didn’t charge to cross the river at either end of the city – M50 and East link – people would have other fucking options 🤔
I drive across the city regularly and would happily avoid it via the port tunnel / East link but €12 is extortion.
I used public transport today and it was train/luas. It’s just so slow it’s infuriating.
Yay!
They should put the Luas/Dart underground though, and just make the whole place a pedestrian-only plaza. Hopefully only another 30 years. It’ll be nice to walk around it in my old age, telling The Young People about how this was once all cars and buses when I was a lad.
But there isn’t an open attack on cars.
Country is a shambles
Any plan as to where the cars that currently use it will now go?
Or is it just ah sure look
I don’t mind the cars but by god the cyclists are absolute weapons they literally never respect red lights I’ve been almost hit so many times going to college
just turn it into another bus terminal like O’Connell St.
It’s hard not to be cynical about this. It will just create worse bottle necks elsewhere. Dublin is fucked and the city council are fuckin it up worse and worse by the day. Time to move out
It’s great news. But buses, which are aesthetically awful and taxis will still be all over the place. So will the Luas. ..
So this is a classic case of much Ado about nothing
As a biker, I find it really confusing that motorbikes are allowed. You turn right from Dame Street and then it’s not really clear whether you’re allowed to keep going.
they really do like banning more and more
Echo the sentiments of many others. Sounds good but the real pains in the arse at College Green are buses, taxis and cyclists – none of which will change with this.
Global warming is done for.
When will we learn? Banning things doesn’t work. This will just drive the cars underground, into tunnels. What the government should do is legalise cars and tax them. But no, they’re too stupid to ever think of that.
Brilliant, that is all.
I haven’t lived in Dublin or been round that way for about 10 years. Pull up google maps in your browser and look at he difference between the 2009 and 2022 shots!!!!!!!!
I know which one I’d rather be on my bike in. Clue, it’s not the 2022 shot!!!!! And in terms of aesthetics fuck me that place is not improved by what they added there.
Joke of a council city centre especially the quays is horrible especially if you have to travel in for a work job
Ooh ooh I hope they ban cars and then do absolutely fuck all urban development like they did with Capel street! Yaaaay!!. /s
Seriously get the FUCK on with it. The city is a dirty, car-clogged, kip with cracked broken paths and no public space that isn’t a park. Have a bit of vision for the love of Christ! Take some inspiration from our European neighbours (for ANYTHING). So depressing to see such laziness or just not giving a toss about urban development. I despise the amount of back slapping the DCC cunts give themselves for doing literally the bare fucking minimum to maintain this city. Makes my blood boil. Rant over.
So they’re bringing in laws forcing companies to allow WFH where possible? No? They’re building a basic public transport system like every other European capital? No? Car charging infrastructure? High rise apartment complexes in the city centre?
Hmm.
Hopefully they’ll ban cyclists, Spanish students,northsiders and Guardian readers next
It seems to me that this just creates a further big divide between the north side and southside because either side of grand canal is Trinity College and Temple Bar.
What did Lightning and Mater do to deserve this punishment?
If only we invested in a underground.
Good idea I just hope Dublin Bus account for it, having those bus stops all close together there helps when if a 49 inevitably fails to show you can rely on a 65b or 77a, whenever they trialled the pedestrianization they had the stops 10 min walks away from each other so it was a guessing game for which bus would actually show.
Yay, back-to-back buses! That’ll improve the street scape. Just pedestrianise and be done with it. Then it will be a nice urban area. Stopping cars but not buses and taxis is going to do nothing about improving the experience of the area
And maybe sort out the bike lane that’s goes against the traffic and sends you into groups of pedestrians
This is 20 years overdue.
Just get on with it for gods sake
There are hardly any private cars driving through college green, it’s all taxis, busses and small delivery vans, so this won’t make much difference.
There is a big difference between private cars and using a taxi
Most people who use taxis do so because they need to use numerous buses to get where they need to go which is time consuming or they don’t own a car, most people who own a private car never use public transport or taxis. Most people who get pissed off at taxis using bus lanes do so from the privilege of sitting in their private car clogging up traffic annoyed that taxis get to jump in front of them from the bus lane when merging in with the private car clogged roads.
Most people who have private cars and don’t use taxis have no idea of the costs of them currently therfore this notion that taxi which provide a service at an already premium rate should charge more by sitting in the private car clogged roads is nonsense
Do you actually hear what your saying, it’s nonsense. We need a transport system that works for everyone and is affordable.
Most people using taxis not work related or tourism are using them because they haven’t got a private car and numerous buses isn’t always an option, most people who don’t own private cars don’t own them because they can’t afford them so if they use taxis they’re not doing so every day and adding an additional hidden poor tax to them by making them sit in private car clogged roads because the likes of you think it’s not okay for taxis to use bus lanes is nonsense and elitist and from a place of privilege so cop yourself on and look past the end of your nose
I don’t think it’s going to make a bit of difference, most of the traffic in the area is busses anyway.
Would be nice if they added a green area too 🌳🌳
I hope they are going to build the metro first…🤷♂️
Fine. It’s a nightmare to drive there unless it’s 3am anyway.
Fucking finally
Including Taxis ? Cos doesn’t make sense banning only private cars, rush out you can find hundreds taxi around there
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Very good, high time. Just get on with it.
Also, the state of this signage, bollards. What a nightmare.
Note – this article says “private cars” so expect Taxis to still be ripping around doing mad shite. And probably Lads in White Vans (the worst road user) driving to centra for breakfast rolls.
If they didn’t charge to cross the river at either end of the city – M50 and East link – people would have other fucking options 🤔
I drive across the city regularly and would happily avoid it via the port tunnel / East link but €12 is extortion.
I used public transport today and it was train/luas. It’s just so slow it’s infuriating.
Yay!
They should put the Luas/Dart underground though, and just make the whole place a pedestrian-only plaza. Hopefully only another 30 years. It’ll be nice to walk around it in my old age, telling The Young People about how this was once all cars and buses when I was a lad.
But there isn’t an open attack on cars.
Country is a shambles
Any plan as to where the cars that currently use it will now go?
Or is it just ah sure look
I don’t mind the cars but by god the cyclists are absolute weapons they literally never respect red lights I’ve been almost hit so many times going to college
just turn it into another bus terminal like O’Connell St.
It’s hard not to be cynical about this. It will just create worse bottle necks elsewhere. Dublin is fucked and the city council are fuckin it up worse and worse by the day. Time to move out
It’s great news. But buses, which are aesthetically awful and taxis will still be all over the place. So will the Luas. ..
So this is a classic case of much Ado about nothing
As a biker, I find it really confusing that motorbikes are allowed. You turn right from Dame Street and then it’s not really clear whether you’re allowed to keep going.
they really do like banning more and more
Echo the sentiments of many others. Sounds good but the real pains in the arse at College Green are buses, taxis and cyclists – none of which will change with this.
Global warming is done for.
When will we learn? Banning things doesn’t work. This will just drive the cars underground, into tunnels. What the government should do is legalise cars and tax them. But no, they’re too stupid to ever think of that.
Brilliant, that is all.
I haven’t lived in Dublin or been round that way for about 10 years. Pull up google maps in your browser and look at he difference between the 2009 and 2022 shots!!!!!!!!
I know which one I’d rather be on my bike in. Clue, it’s not the 2022 shot!!!!! And in terms of aesthetics fuck me that place is not improved by what they added there.
Joke of a council city centre especially the quays is horrible especially if you have to travel in for a work job
Ooh ooh I hope they ban cars and then do absolutely fuck all urban development like they did with Capel street! Yaaaay!!. /s
Seriously get the FUCK on with it. The city is a dirty, car-clogged, kip with cracked broken paths and no public space that isn’t a park. Have a bit of vision for the love of Christ! Take some inspiration from our European neighbours (for ANYTHING). So depressing to see such laziness or just not giving a toss about urban development. I despise the amount of back slapping the DCC cunts give themselves for doing literally the bare fucking minimum to maintain this city. Makes my blood boil. Rant over.
So they’re bringing in laws forcing companies to allow WFH where possible? No? They’re building a basic public transport system like every other European capital? No? Car charging infrastructure? High rise apartment complexes in the city centre?
Hmm.
Hopefully they’ll ban cyclists, Spanish students,northsiders and Guardian readers next
It seems to me that this just creates a further big divide between the north side and southside because either side of grand canal is Trinity College and Temple Bar.
What did Lightning and Mater do to deserve this punishment?
If only we invested in a underground.
Good idea I just hope Dublin Bus account for it, having those bus stops all close together there helps when if a 49 inevitably fails to show you can rely on a 65b or 77a, whenever they trialled the pedestrianization they had the stops 10 min walks away from each other so it was a guessing game for which bus would actually show.
Yay, back-to-back buses! That’ll improve the street scape. Just pedestrianise and be done with it. Then it will be a nice urban area. Stopping cars but not buses and taxis is going to do nothing about improving the experience of the area
And maybe sort out the bike lane that’s goes against the traffic and sends you into groups of pedestrians
This is 20 years overdue.
Just get on with it for gods sake
There are hardly any private cars driving through college green, it’s all taxis, busses and small delivery vans, so this won’t make much difference.
There is a big difference between private cars and using a taxi
Most people who use taxis do so because they need to use numerous buses to get where they need to go which is time consuming or they don’t own a car, most people who own a private car never use public transport or taxis. Most people who get pissed off at taxis using bus lanes do so from the privilege of sitting in their private car clogging up traffic annoyed that taxis get to jump in front of them from the bus lane when merging in with the private car clogged roads.
Most people who have private cars and don’t use taxis have no idea of the costs of them currently therfore this notion that taxi which provide a service at an already premium rate should charge more by sitting in the private car clogged roads is nonsense
Do you actually hear what your saying, it’s nonsense. We need a transport system that works for everyone and is affordable.
Most people using taxis not work related or tourism are using them because they haven’t got a private car and numerous buses isn’t always an option, most people who don’t own private cars don’t own them because they can’t afford them so if they use taxis they’re not doing so every day and adding an additional hidden poor tax to them by making them sit in private car clogged roads because the likes of you think it’s not okay for taxis to use bus lanes is nonsense and elitist and from a place of privilege so cop yourself on and look past the end of your nose
I don’t think it’s going to make a bit of difference, most of the traffic in the area is busses anyway.
Would be nice if they added a green area too 🌳🌳
I hope they are going to build the metro first…🤷♂️
Fine. It’s a nightmare to drive there unless it’s 3am anyway.
Fucking finally
Including Taxis ? Cos doesn’t make sense banning only private cars, rush out you can find hundreds taxi around there