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    geotrig
    Registered Users Posts: 1,760 ✭✭✭geotrig


    zulutango wrote: »
    Not sure if they would. The whole thrust of the guidelines is to give priority to pedestrians, bikes and public transport. It's the reason that the Council is in such a bind with any road upgrade that it does. It can't legally look after the needs of car users ahead of the other modes, even though it probably wants to.

    Whether we like it or not, this is the way things are going unless we vote for political parties that change the regulations back the other way, and none of them appear to want that. Not even sure if a total change in political leadership would result in such a revision anyway, because this is very much driven by European standards. We could follow the Brits out of Europe but they're not even considering ditching the EU standards and we're unlikely to if we left Europe.

    So, the choice is do nothing, and get left behind by other cities, or embrace the changes and get on with things, although that will undoubtedly upset many people.
    I'm still struggling to see what the above has to do withe the 2 crossing that may as well be side by side and what Europe, politicians , public transport ,walking ,biking, etc had an impact on the decision that they couldn't put a crossing across Catherine street and 1 crossing roches street? I really don't think it benefits anyone, cyclists ,pedestrians or public transport ,traffic lights would give safer priority to pedestrians at that junction.It s not like the council haven't made daft decision before, just look at the dangerous cycle lane they put on the children road that now is been changed around to way nearly all sane people would have planned it!


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