Mantis Toboggan wrote: » What's public transport got to do with it?
Tomrota wrote: » If you’re taking away all the parking spaces, maybe it should be easier to get to the town from Monread, from Jigginstown, from Ballycane, from Johnstown, from Kill, from Sallins, from Carragh etc. Currently this infrastructure doesn’t exist so people have to drive into the town or to shop in Monread.
Mantis Toboggan wrote: » I never said get rid of car parks, just said stop cars parking on main street.
Duke of Url wrote: » Why do we need a main road up the main street at this stage besides dunnes?
Valhallapt wrote: » Unfortunately it’s still the quickest route for much through traffic. There is no reason why tractors and hgv vehicles go through Main Street today, yet the still do. Naas would be a much nicer place to shop / eat if Main Street wasn’t so busy and noisy.
Anatom wrote: » Pedestrianising the main street would do nothing substantial to help the town. Creating more space like they're doing with Poplar Square will be great, but I want to be able to drive from the Sallins Road to the hospital thanks, without having to trail all the way around the ring road. There is also the point that there's absolutely nothing to do with all of the space you'd create by shutting out traffic completely. We absolutely don't need any more coffee shops, and if you suggested putting in another restaurant, the ones that are there already would laugh at you. There simply isn't enough business coming through the town. We need the sort of retail that used to bring visitors into the town - fashion etc. They left or closed up for a variety of reasons, and the price and availability of parking was one of them. The town centre being redeveloped and the car park it will bring will certainly help this, but taking traffic out and taking parking off the street won't help the businesses in the town. You need to make it easier for people to stop and give you their money, not harder. By the way, if you think the traffic is bad now, you should have seen it years ago before the by-pass went around. Yes, I do agree that, at peak times, it can be quite slow, but that's the same everywhere you have commuters and schools. You'll also always have idiots breaking the lights and there should be cameras there to catch and prosecute them (I often think people need to be sent back to driving school with some of the behaviour you see on the roads!). The odd tractor and truck (usually only coming down the town because they actually have business there or because there's no other option) is something I think we can deal with.
McBluffin wrote: » Wexford town is another great example of where they pedestrianised the main street. It makes for a lovely shopping experience particularly around the Christmas period.
eusap wrote: » For me the steps needed for naas are 1. ban HGV traffic from shortcutting through the town 2. create wider footpaths and public spaces 3. Eventually stop traffic from Dunnes to newbridge road junction.
Not in Kansas wrote: » I suggested the same ban for Sallins Village once on a FB post about the Sallins Bypass and you would not believe the abuse I got (a little on the thread, but mostly via PM) from lorry drivers. I was called every name under the sun. I was absolutely stunned at the viciousness of it. I'm a woman - not that it should matter - and I was called names I've never been called in my life by people not much older than my own son. So be careful where you throw that opinion...it's very contentious it seems!
2lazytogetup wrote: » If I was town planer if you were coming from sallins I'd force traffic to ball, down Dublin Road, left tesco metro and that way to hospital. Keep cars off mainstreet, esp ones commuting through it. I'd eat out and go into centre if more pedestrianised and thus they would need more restaurants and cafes. Just because it was worse before doesn't mean we can't make it better.
Lex Luthor wrote: » I'm still flabbergasted as to where all this money is coming from, people out of work businesses closing by the day and they're throwing money on a footpath that imo could wait and spend the money for better causes Its worse when you see a local TD splashing it up all over their FB page saying they campaigned for it blah blah blah Put the money to proper use and give it where its needed and help with the homeless the sooner I'm out of this country the better, its a complete joke
Lex Luthor wrote: » ....................... Put the money to proper use and give it where its needed and help with the homeless .........
pad199207 wrote: » Reading news ther the Shopping Mall has been sold with an anchor tenant.
beertons wrote: » Who is left to be an anchor tenant?
2lazytogetup wrote: » last time i heard the canal come up in conversation was a couple of years ago when two women got attacked not far from sallins on the canal.
paddylonglegs wrote: » Iv been walking the canal for over 10 years and have never been attacked.
2lazytogetup wrote: » ive walked streets of new york city at night and never been attacked. therefore there is zero crime in new york.
vincenzolorenzo wrote: » Ah come on. Have you been anywhere near the canal since March. Its probably the best amenity Naas has, lovely place to go for a walk, and its popularity has increased massively since Covid. Ok so two women were attacked there, and that's a terrible thing to happen but using that logic a pedestrian was hit by a car last week so we shouldn't invest in roads anymore I think this is a great development and hopefully it gets built soon
Anatom wrote: » That was great news about the greenway. It will bring much-needed traffic into the village - supporting, and indeed creating jobs!
