Cities around the world that are reducing car access

Motor tax should be a function of tail pipe emissions and weight.

And taxing the arse out of second hand cars (with relatively dirtier power trains) in favour of new builds (increasing demand for carbon intensive manufacturing elsewhere and sending our €€€ abroad) needs to be reviewed as a policy by the Greens. It plays to their well to do base who can afford a new build electric car, but that's not an option for the average motorist.

I stopped behind a Ford Anglia at the lights the other day, which was behind a 212 reg X5. Families have gotten smaller and yet family cars have exploded in size. Yes, safety improved. But principally safer from other enormous cars crashing into you. There would be plenty of space for bicycle lanes if cars weren't so bloody wide.

Safety for car occupants has improved. Not so much for the pedestrians and cyclists.

Unfortunately, those laws do nothing to prevent larger and larger vehicles, with higher bumpers and built up fronts, guaranteed to smash the pelvis and cause serious damage to the body core of a pedestrian, instead of rolling them over the bonnet as would have happened with standard saloon or hatchback cars. These 'modern designs' frequently include touch screens in recent years, so the driver has to take their eyes of the road to operate volume or ventilation or similar, instead of good old fashioned knobs and buttons that didn't require eye contact.

It maybe a chicken before the egg scenario. Slowly deincentify cars...by having a conjestion charge, inner city ban, high parking rates/fines, compleat city ban on ices followed by eventually a citywide conjestion charge so high that it is effectively a ban. You may insert a functional or perpetually improving public +taxi+hackney +car sharing/renting between any or all of the above disincentives.

DCC Executives have recommended the full pedestrianisation of Chapel Street from May!

How will businesses on Capel Street survive if a customer can’t store their vehicle directly outside their shop??????

I wish I could see Mannix's face now

Need to do South William Street next. It was so much more pleasant during the time it was pedestrianised than it is now

Great news, it was great being able to sit out and eat on Parliament Street last summer, great vista towards City Hall.

The real question is how will the businesses survive if the staff can’t store their personal vehicles outside the shop?????

Newstalk giving the jeweller airtime to spout nonsense about cycle lanes. The media agenda against active travel is bizarre.

There's no grounds for legal challenge. There's been ample consultation and the public even voted for it and those opposed to it had all their concerns addressed in great detail by the latest report.

Has the city erupted into riots, burned out shells of buildings and other end of day type scenarios yet?

The elderly and disabled have been thrown into the grinder to produce solent green by all accounts. Mind you the elderly and disabled probably preferred being able to make their way around without 4 SUVS blocking the pedestrian crossing a d mounting the pavement but we'll never know now.