would they respond even when it's building works, not road works, causing the issue?
I've found the roadworks.control@dublincity.ie team at DCC to be fairly responsive at dealing with cases like this.
Even without the hoarding, it's ridiculous that there's advertising boards blocking half the pavement. How long would it be allowed if, for every one blocking half a pavement, there's one blocking half a road lane?
question is do the builders have permission to place their hoarding that far out onto the footpath, and if not what will DCC do about it?
I think it is real, though the hoardings are temporary.
Somebody please tell me this isn’t real. 🤯
There should be a 500% tax on multistoreys in the city centre
this approach would last about as long as a meringue in a hurricane.
I'm not fussed about street parking. In my view the real problem is the multi storeys. They have single handed shelved every proposed pedestrianisation scheme since henry st. Then we see that the actual council is it's self an operator of one of those car parks. Disaster.
There should be a 500% tax on multistoreys in the city centre so parking as a land use becomes worthless. The planning lawas should be revised to eliminate the requirement for apartments to have underground parking spaces, this would reduce the cost of building new housing also.
Not really, its pretty much a road map for the future of the cities. The intent is to make the cities more inviting to people and less inviting to cars.
That 300% figure is one of many potential options but the one selected by one or two journalists for headline grabbing purposes.
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Interesting study released by the department of transport to dramatically increase parking charges in all cities. I’m sure this report will make for a nice dust collector in the department.
i knew america was an extreme in how they built their cities, but i hadn't realised why, in the way it's cemented into planning laws:
This is encouraging, for Europe anyway, I really can't see the car being restricted much in Ireland with the shenanigans going on during Covid. We are a bit of a lost cause, and traffic just keeps getting worse.
Part of the R113 in Knocklyon has been closed for 1 week to facilitate sewerage upgrade works. Even with the construction noise, its a far more pleasant place to be without the cars flying by or idling in a line of traffic.
TLDR - cars are bloody noisy.
Going back to this, escooters are being legislated for under the Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021, as well as strengthening of laws around scramblers, etc.;
A nimby by definition is an extremely local concern though. Concepts such as safe cycling routes for children are generally popular - just sometimes not locally if it impacts traffic. Campaigning on a ticket of stopping all development everywhere won't get you far. Mannix is a crank who would never get sufficient support city-wide. People want improvements, they just don't want to face the reality of the side-effects. A local politician currently just hops onboard with this and suggests the improvement is done but "elsewhere" - a citywide mayor won't have much truck with that.
A city wide mayor could appeal to nimbies right across the city which would be a fairly sure route to electoral success. The campaigning would probably be a race to the bottom in nimbyism.
Housing shortags in particular disproportionately fall on those not originally from the city (either from elsewhere in Ireland or migrants*), who are less likely to vote in Dublin so it may not be a big issue in mayoral campaigns. Similarly there are plenty in Dublin who drove around the city most of their lives who oppose greater restrictions on private cars. Could you imagine Mannix Flynn becoming mayor!
*not dismissing the fact that the housing shortage also effects many Dubs but these are generally young therefore less likely to vote, while the older settled generation who vote in greater numbers are more likely to want the status quo maintained.
Your irony meter is broken.
'A proper system of oversight'
Are you familiar with this country at all?
I simply don't trust the city council. Their wards are too small and they knee-jerk against any development in it. A city-wide (or indeed county-wide) Mayor with executive power can rely on broadly popular initiatives without worrying about how they impact specific areas.
That is true, but a proper system of oversight and strict limits to what is local and what is national may balance that.
However, corruption and short-termism would be inevitable.
Only problem with that is you end up with loads of corruption (this is why so much power has been stripped from Councillors) and initiatives that live and die on the next election results
The CEO setup is not perfect by any means but its better than leaving it to some of the doses that manage to get elected
Actually, we need elected local government with actual power - not an Chief Executive who can override the elected representatives.
A proper devolved council with actual powers, answerable to the electorate, including an elected Mayor. For Dublin, it should include all four Dublin councils.
We don't have an equivalent position in the first place. We need an elected mayor with actual power first.
We need to find our Anne Hidalgo
Doctors claimed it was shocking that only four patients were wearing a helmet, despite the relatively high speeds used by most riders.
Three-fifth of those involved in collisions with their e-scooters suffered injuries to their upper body.
Shocked that they didn't have helmets to protect themselves from all those upper body injuries?
just to correct a comment i made, it's 13 of the 15 where hi-vis was not relevant, not 14 of 15.
and 60% of the patients had pre-existing conditions? what do they mean by this, i wonder, and how does it compare with the general population?
doctors looking at this situation in the context described are like people looking at a landscape through a very powerful telescope; they are very well positioned to describe what they can see through the telescope, but the problem with high powered telescopes is that they have a very narrow field of view so they can only see a tiny portion of the landscape with it.
Particularly as e-scooters are not legal on Irish roads - and surprise surprise - some of those injured were on their first attempt on an e-scooter and none were wearing either hi-viz or an helmet. There are also talking about a small number of Cork people injured - no attempt made to assess the number of users not injured. Is 15 a high number or a low number?
Riding an e-scooter strikes me as a quite exposed means of transport - not for the faint hearted. I would not ride one without a helmet or hi-viz, while I would ride a bike without one.
It makes a great "oh won't someone please think of the children" article in both the Irish Medical Journal and the Irish Examiner. Paper doesn't refuse ink!
A sample size of 15 cases...
oh ffs
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