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Cities around the world that are reducing car access

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  • #1292
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 44,330 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Another powerful visualization...
    "How 5 people take the place of 120"

    https://twitter.com/LCyclable/status/1394354396985692163

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  • #1293
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 44,330 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    https://twitter.com/CorkCommuter/status/1394315253509394432

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  • #1294
    Pinch Flat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,779 ✭✭✭Pinch Flat


    My bike camera is controlled by George soros. Don't tell Gemma.


  • #1295
    Sam Russell
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 20,558 Mod ✭✭✭✭Sam Russell


    Pinch Flat wrote: »
    My bike camera is controlled by George soros. Don't tell Gemma.

    I do not think the Gov are very good at spying on anyone. CJH did not have much success with spying but that was before cycle lanes were invented.


  • #1296
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,122 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/what-happened-to-the-public-bench-outside-dublin-s-powerscourt-centre-1.3570069

    Just when you thought Mannix couldn't get any lower


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  • #1297
    buffalo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,207 ✭✭✭buffalo


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/what-happened-to-the-public-bench-outside-dublin-s-powerscourt-centre-1.3570069

    Just when you thought Mannix couldn't get any lower

    Are you suggesting that 2018 was his low point, and he's gone higher since?


  • #1298
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 44,330 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    Forward thinking...

    https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1395614516516249601

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  • #1299
    cgcsb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,319 ✭✭✭✭cgcsb


    These things must make Germany nervous. Their auto industry should start making smaller electric vehicles from bikes to small cars and everything in between. Electric mopeds are standard in China.


  • #1300
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,298 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    this is, at first glance, a handy app. you can tag potholes/badly designed infrastructure etc.

    https://twitter.com/DubCityCouncil/status/1395316030789009408


  • #1301
    namloc1980
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,668 ✭✭✭✭namloc1980


    Seth Brundle wrote: »
    Forward thinking...

    https://twitter.com/BrentToderian/status/1395614516516249601

    No chance we get anything like that here.


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  • #1302
    AlmightyCushion
    Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,271 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    this is, at first glance, a handy app. you can tag potholes/badly designed infrastructure etc.

    https://twitter.com/DubCityCouncil/status/1395316030789009408

    Are DCC monitoring things that are tagged so they can fix and improve them or is it just a heads up to other cyclists?


  • #1303
    magicbastarder
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Sports Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 54,298 CMod ✭✭✭✭magicbastarder


    i don't know if they're being monitored, i suspect the main use is knowledge sharing among cyclists.


  • #1304
    p_haugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭p_haugh


    Some good news on the Capel Street front - while the proposal will be going ahead as planned, DCC have agreed to trial full pedestrianisation over a number of weekends during the summer. Hopefully this leads to it being done permanently!

    https://twitter.com/newschambers/status/1395738484527276035?s=19


  • #1305
    Seth Brundle
    Moderators, Politics Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 44,330 Mod ✭✭✭✭Seth Brundle


    That's awful - where will the shop owners park now?
    ;)

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  • #1306
    bb1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    It's mad that after those trials in Capel Street happen, and everyone has a wonderful time enjoying the street as a non-car sewer, and business booms, and traffic chaos calamity doesn't ensue in the surrounding streets, and the elderly and disabled do just fine with it all, we will still hear those exact same arguments from the exact same suspects all over again when the conversation about permanent pedestrianisation begins. There's no winning with them unless you just don't listen to them.


  • #1307
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,122 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    Man I love reading the moaners on Twitter when these things are announced


  • #1308
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,122 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    59% of businesses in favour, great to see

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  • #1309
    p_haugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭p_haugh


    Meanwhile on the other side of the Liffey :D

    https://twitter.com/dlrcc/status/1395771564348608516?s=20


  • #1310
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,363 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    Man I love reading the moaners on Twitter when these things are announced

    Most major cities around the world are looking at implementing it, but as soon as Dublin city centre was mentioned, I heard moaners on LiveLive last week coming out with the rarest situations they could think of as an excuse as to why it shouldn't be done.

    "What if someone who is blind or has bad vision has an appt in X street, and has to get dropped 300 metres away at X, they have to walk that far from the taxi".

    That was an actual example I heard.

    If you want to find reasons NOT to do things, you will always find a endless list of eventualities.


  • #1311
    BonnieSituation
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,088 ✭✭✭✭BonnieSituation


    bb1234567 wrote: »
    It's mad that after those trials in Capel Street happen, and everyone has a wonderful time enjoying the street as a non-car sewer, and business booms, and traffic chaos calamity doesn't ensue in the surrounding streets, and the elderly and disabled do just fine with it all, we will still hear those exact same arguments from the exact same suspects all over again when the conversation about permanent pedestrianisation begins. There's no winning with them unless you just don't listen to them.

    As it was ever thus.

    This is why we can't have nice things.


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  • #1312
    cgcsb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,319 ✭✭✭✭cgcsb


    NIMAN wrote: »
    Most major cities around the world are looking at implementing it, but as soon as Dublin city centre was mentioned, I heard moaners on LiveLive last week coming out with the rarest situations they could think of as an excuse as to why it shouldn't be done.

    "What if someone who is blind or has bad vision has an appt in X street, and has to get dropped 300 metres away at X, they have to walk that far from the taxi".

    That was an actual example I heard.

    If you want to find reasons NOT to do things, you will always find a endless list of eventualities.
    Logically more pedestrianisation is empowering the blind to be able to walk around more free of danger. Maybe the blind person would love the independence and sense of freedom offered by that 300m walk.


  • #1313
    Ben D Bus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,208 ✭✭✭Ben D Bus


    magicbastarder wrote: »
    this is, at first glance, a handy app. you can tag potholes/badly designed infrastructure etc.

    https://twitter.com/DubCityCouncil/status/1395316030789009408

    I've been using it for months. Didn't realise it was only in Beta. It's interesting seeing all my trips mapped out. Hopefully it helps identify popular routes and assists with prioritising infrastructure developments. I've logged plenty of potholes, dodgy protected cycle lanes and kissing gates. Hope somebody benefits!


  • #1314
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,122 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    This is gas given the uproar against any car reduction measures, good enough for them in Galway

    https://twitter.com/CloHiggins/status/1396457263599075336


  • #1315
    CatInABox
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 11,086 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatInABox


    Lower Liffey Street pedestrianisation to go ahead this summer

    https://twitter.com/DublinCommuters/status/1396760090875731969

    About damn time


  • #1316
    p_haugh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,693 ✭✭✭p_haugh


    Some snaps of the newly pedestrianised streets.

    https://twitter.com/weareDublinTown/status/1396778718090211332?s=19


  • #1317
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,122 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    I was just on Merrion Row, it's very underwhelming


  • #1318
    bb1234567
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,513 ✭✭✭bb1234567


    Thelonious Monk wrote: »
    I was just on Merrion Row, it's very underwhelming

    How so


  • #1319
    Thelonious Monk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,122 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    2 or 3 bits of extended footpath, but nothing done on the corners of Ely and Merrion Street which is a nightmare at lunchtime where there's not enough room for people to stand and cars and vans take the corners dangerously


  • #1320
    cgcsb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,319 ✭✭✭✭cgcsb


    Underwhelming on all fronts to be honest but it's incremental progress and that is to be welcomed.

    I note Capel street got a very loud response regarding the scheme's lack of ambition and they'll be trialing a more ambitious version in June so hoping that leads to something better.

    In my view the College Green and dame Street pedestrianisation is the silver bullet that'll really change things here. They should also be widening footpaths on dame St all the way from Geore's St to Christchurch with a bus gate at City Hall


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  • #1321
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,418 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    cgcsb wrote: »
    I note Capel street got a very loud response regarding the scheme's lack of ambition and they'll be trialing a more ambitious version in June so hoping that leads to something better.

    Only slightly more ambitious. Looks like it'll be evenings only on Fridays and Saturdays from June 11th. Hopefully that will change.


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