Cities around the world that are reducing car access

via a limited number of fabricated possible responses of his or her choosing and none beyond them. Yeah, they have a place waiting for them in the diplomatic corp.

I'll never get you to publicly admit on thread that you want massive amounts of the arterial routes in Dublin closed to private traffic making ownership of a car basically pointless. You are clever enough not to say that. It is what you want but you will never say it on thread. You'll use more convuluted approaches in pursuit of your goal.

and there is the side order of passive aggressiveness.

Frustrating that this sub-forum is full of people who think they know how to solve urban Ireland's transportation woes without having experienced successful implementation of traffic management abroad.

I suspect chinese ebikes like the Himo C20, Fiido and Ado A20 might be the unexpected path to congestion free urban transport because the councils certainly won't achieve it along with the increasing cost of motoring will lead people to re-evaluate the second car on their driveways. shared bikes are not where you want when you want them. scooters are deathtraps.

restrictions below euro4 emmission standards in Urban areas seems reasonable place to start. at this stage it does not hurt the poorest percentiles too much and they can trade their polluting cars for compliant cars with motorists out in the Boonies.

They can not work miracles at those price points and just because they look a bike like a BMX doesn#t make them as rugged as a BMX.

But would his dislike for them have something to do with the sales model which cuts out the dealer? Just sayin'.

Of all them the Fiido based on what research I can do over the internet is my least favoured. I am hesitating on buying one particlar alternative which I see advertised at the moment because I am unsure of the seller.

BTW Fiidos and Himos wonät actually be legal in Ireland if the motors can be increased to 350w in cheat mode. I want to try to stay legal if I can.

Unless you happen to live directly at a bus shelter it doesn't improve efficiency in that bus doesn't deliver directly from source to destination. Bikes, scooters, cars, mopeds all trump a bus in this respect.

If you do happen to live at a bus shelter I implore you to please engage with the outreach programs of the Homeless Charities and move as the passengers would like to sit down while waiting for the next bus.

This might cause a few folks to choose an alternative mode of transport

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Apart from filling up Hire Cars I haven't pumped diesel or petrol in years.