[Deleted User] wrote: » Which GP councillor resigned?
Parkender wrote: » A GP and IND councillor both recently resigned. One of which had an appalling council meeting attendance record.
Larbre34 wrote: » Well known cycling zealot Oisin O'Connor has been proposed by GP to replace NiFhloinn.
ted1 wrote: » What’s a zealot, As opposed to a campaigner? Would you qualify as an anti cycling Zealot?
Larbre34 wrote: » But I'm not going to have an unbalanced influence on policy.
[Deleted User] wrote: » How is their influence 'unbalanced' compared to any other county councillor?
Larbre34 wrote: » A zealous myopia on that person's part. I'll put it to you this way. The Council's Director of Infrastructure is on a mission to implement a whole heap of cycleways, as we know, replacing traffic lanes on primary and regional routes in many places. As an example and only because I know some of them, the Deansgrange businesses are anguished at the prospect of further disruption to their businesses by the proposal for Deansgrange Road, already threatened by the economic calamity of Covid. Just this week, new lining on Kill Lane and Kill Avenue caused massive traffic tailbacks, to cars and buses alike. The new Councillor, Mr O'Connor, has on his own twitter feed, expressed no understanding of the necessity to prioritise keeping economically important roads fully open for the benefit of businesses and local customers as we look forward hopefully to some recovery in the next few months. And so, the collective failure of DLR Council to properly support local commerce in these times, at both management and elected Council level, does not look like being eased by the appointment of an anti-car zealot Councillor to the ruling coalition on the Council.
Larbre34 wrote: » A zealous myopia on that person's part. I'll put it to you this way. The Council's Director of Infrastructure is on a mission to implement a whole heap of cycleways, as we know, replacing traffic lanes on primary and regional routes in many places. .
AndrewJRenko wrote: » So just to be clear, he's a zealot because of what he hasn't said on his Twitter feed, in your opinion. I presume you reckon all the other Councillors who expressed no anti-ISIS understandings on their Twitter feeds are ISIS zealots?
ted1 wrote: » Have you bothered to ask why? Let’s take look at cherrywood, 30,000 extra residents. Shankill 500 units being added to the castle 200 being added by Michael fingelton ,
Larbre34 wrote: » Don't be obtuse. Go and read his Twitter and you'll get the picture.
AndrewJRenko wrote: » Tell us more about Fingleton's role please.
Larbre34 wrote: » A zealous myopia on that person's part.
I'll put it to you this way. The Council's Director of Infrastructure is on a mission to implement a whole heap of cycleways, as we know, replacing traffic lanes on primary and regional routes in many places. As an example and only because I know some of them, the Deansgrange businesses are anguished at the prospect of further disruption to their businesses by the proposal for Deansgrange Road, already threatened by the economic calamity of Covid.
Just this week, new lining on Kill Lane and Kill Avenue caused massive traffic tailbacks, to cars and buses alike.
The new Councillor, Mr O'Connor, has on his own twitter feed, expressed no understanding of the necessity to prioritise keeping economically important roads fully open for the benefit of businesses and local customers as we look forward hopefully to some recovery in the next few months.
And so, the collective failure of DLR Council to properly support local commerce in these times, at both management and elected Council level, does not look like being eased by the appointment of an anti-car zealot Councillor to the ruling coalition on the Council.
Deleted User wrote: » 1) No primary routes are having lanes curtailed
Gareth Keenan wrote: » Incorrect. The N31 Primary Route (DL Harbour to M50) has had a lane curtailed, on the Blackrock to DL section.
Deleted User wrote: » Thanks for the correction. I thought the N31 had been declassified years ago, given it hasn't been an active port in... 5? years!
[Deleted User] wrote: » In your opinion, and solely because you disagree with him. I could as easily argue that other councillors have a zealous myopia on issue X, Y or Z that's particularly important to me. 1) No primary routes are having lanes curtailed 2) Business leaders are inherently biased, and have no more idea of the potential affect of traffic changes than anyone else. Yet you're attributing some sort of expert knowledge on their part. And? Why are you assuming that any road/traffic changes should always be beneficial to vehicles? That's quite zealously myopic of you. In your opinion. I'd also love to see some facts/research/evidence for how 'economically important' those roads being 'fully open' is. In your biased, irrational opinion.
Larbre34 wrote: » I should point out, that just in recent days, dlr Council has shelved plans to make Deansgrange Road one-way to install a full width cycle lane, as a result of overwhelming opposition, not least from businesses. .
Larbre34 wrote: » Thats entirely your case to make. The case I'm making and will continue to make is that nothing should obstruct economic recovery and ease of access to all our domestic businesses, large and small, who are in an existential crisis. Those businesses have no more evidence than the big holes in their trading accounts.
Larbre34 wrote: » Thats entirely your case to make.
The case I'm making and will continue to make is that nothing should obstruct economic recovery and ease of access to all our domestic businesses, large and small, who are in an existential crisis. Those businesses have no more evidence than the big holes in their trading accounts.
As you have already been corrected on, national and regional routes are in fact having lanes removed
I should point out, that just in recent days, dlr Council has shelved plans to make Deansgrange Road one-way to install a full width cycle lane, as a result of overwhelming opposition, not least from businesses.
And using the logic that business leads to employment leads to taxes leads to investment leads to recovery, I'm betting this will be a very pro business Govt in 2021, one that will not see the green tail wag the blue dog.
ted1 wrote: » Is that a legacy route from the days of a ferry terminal?
[Deleted User] wrote: » Can you provide a source for this 'overwhelming opposition'? Cormac Devlin said 600 submissions out of a total of 6,439 submissions opposed the Deansgrange Road one-way system.
Larbre34 wrote: » From Cormac Devlin's email to constituents of 10 December: "The proposed one-way system for Deansgrange Road will not proceed. Alternatives routes will be considered. 600 of 639 submissions were opposed or suggested alternatives" 6,430 referred to the number of submissions made for the whole list of pilot measures in various locations. Also arising out of this consultation, the proposed closure of Avoca Avenue, Blackrock to through-traffic, will not proceed either.
Larbre34 wrote: » but removing traffic lanes from key economic routes wasn't one of them.
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