Cities around the world that are reducing car access

What are the car park's "insurmountable structural difficulties that cannot be overcome"? You just turn right and right again?

How depressing is this

50€ a year to store your personal property in a public space?

Or have I read that wrong?

We should go for the Japanese solution - you can't buy a car unless you prove you have private off-road storage space for it.

My partner is disabled and needs to be dropped by car at the door if we go to events, meals or on errands. Anywhere that goes "pedestrianised" such as Capel Street where there's no taxi or car drop off therefore becomes a no go zone for him. I also remember when I was almost knocked down by a speeding cyclist in Smithfield tearing down the down ramp near Bel Cibo, anyone who wasn't fast on their feet would be a goner. The nutty Green Party don't give a damn about the disabled or mobility impaired. Voting with my feet and just won't be spending any money in these areas.

How does your partner manage in large shopping centres, where the disabled parking could well be a km or two away from the shops?

But putting in more parking doesn't solve those problems... It still doesn't make rent or housing cheaper...

It's a lazy and cheap fix by council to cars abandoned willy nilly in an estate, because they don't need to tackle questions like 'should we enforce parking bye laws' or 'why does every 4bed semi D have 1 on property space... But feel the need to have provision made for 5 cars as close as possible to their house', 'why can't we improve the local bus / cycle /train alternatives' etc etc

Great to see businesses copping on to what’s bad for them.

https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2022/07/23/bt-says-it-banned-car-park-from-using-its-name-due-to-pedestrianisation-dispute/

I've not read them, but I read this for the first time over a decade ago and has been dipped into ever since for use in a plethora of college and university assignments over the years.

You'll love it.

Car free areas /= banning cars from the city centre.

I was recently forced onto public transport for a week and coming from the outer reaches into Dublin is absolutely no fun and very costly. On average it was twice as expensive, even at these fuel rates and took twice as long so it's really not a realistic option for many.

If you drew a line through Blackrock, out to Palmerston and around to Raheny that is about the extent of good public transport and even there there are large pockets that are poorly served. I see no great issues with the intentions on North Strand but it creates absolutely massive problems for the morning rush hour and some slightly better thinking might have worked better.

It's a bit more nuanced than that. In a lot of cases it's people not being able to afford the type of house they want in an area they want, so they choose to live out in the sticks. I have friends who bought in places like Duleek and Ashbourne, and drive to work now in the city. They could have bought houses where I bought mine in Dublin, but a lot of people would turn their noses up at the area.

So why should people who live in the city have to suffer all the traffic because of this?

A lot of people made their own bed.

Pre Leap, pre €2 fares and with cheaper fuel "it's dearer than driving" came up a lot here.

People who notionally always had their spouse and 17 year old twins to go with them so it was four adult cash fares being compared to a few litres of 1.29 petrol and the cheapest crash-era surface carpark thats now an apartment block.