So the balls-up has started since last night which makes Fairview from clontarf to Edges corner a single lane with bollards down the centre.
This will be a permanent feature and works will take 21 months.
getting rid of cars would improve living standards for all and we'd be healthier for it. Cars ruin cities.
Nope my point is that there wasn't a big debate before the last election.
In 2020 or 2021 announcements and articles started appearing about getting rid of cars altogether.
DCC's approach generally is to just to tell people "this is the way it is now" and to go ahead restricting cars.
Here is an article from Rte.ie where one interviewee says e-scooters will be substituted for cars in Dublin. That is an obvious decline in living standards and one of the steepest in history.
People in the middle ages could ride in a horse and carriage but the people of the future will ride around on scooters like children?
I don't remember political parties campaigning on dismantling road networks or a big debate before the last election.
The story then (early 2020) was that electric cars would replace petrol cars. Now it seems 'carless' cities and ripping up roads is the 'solution'.
What roads have been dismantled or ripped up?
I don't remember political parties campaigning on dismantling road networks
where is this happening?
Who cares if it was or wasn't seen? It was going to happen regardless. The bollards were mainly put in to protect cycle lanes that were already there. So your gripe is that vulnerable road users aren't as easy to kill anymore, is that it?
Electric cars will replace petrol cars, but car dependency needs to be reduced overall. Making other methods of travel safer is part of that approach. As is making public transport more reliable and available in all areas. The story you are listening to about cars replacing other cars is driven by car manufacturers, who don' t want their sales numbers to drop.
Consultative my hole.
The Government put people in lockdown and then DCC were reducing roads with bollards for cycle lanes put in when no one would see it happening.
The story then (early 2020) was that electric cars would replace petrol cars. Now it seems 'carless' cities and ripping up roads is the 'solution'. So much for electric cars.
I agree however that it is not confined to the Green Party. Not sure why people are so focused on them.
Indeed because its one of the few policies that has complete cross party support and indeed grassroots support according to the consultation and planning processes. Aside from the rural coalition of independent TDs going from 5 seats to a majority over night, they may just get used to it.
Indeed, what's more these policies are only going to be rolled out further and more often in a lot more areas regardless of who is in power
there's also that cognitive dissonance of 'i hate those ineffectual salad eating greens' while also believing that they're running riot with the country and there's nothing FF or FG can do to stop them.
It is quite funny to see. We live in one of the most consultative democracies in the world. You can hardly take a piss without 3 rounds of public consultation and a statutory appeals process and a high court review.
But people who I'm sure are otherwise intelligent, are stone cold convinced that eamon and Owen are supreme dictators and they've developed and designed every minute detail of the pitiful few sustainable transport projects we have. And it's not like we elected a government on a platform of improving public transport and cycling, which was central to the manifesto of FF, FG and Green party. It was also a key deliverable of all opposition parties, so not sure where this idea that they are being dictated to, the vast majority of the electorate voted for it.
Wasn't Keegan still still in the process of destroying Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown before he moved on to destroying Dublin City.
It's mostly the Greens fault though. And just wait until the next election, when the people who never voted green anyway, are going to vote them out!
The thing is I don't think Eamon or Owen were in positions of power when this thing was proposed in the first place
You should know by now that Eamonn and Owen pulled on their Lycra and their hard hats and decided on the traffic management plan after pints one Friday night. After a rowdy evening of cackling at motorists expense, they went home and burned an effigy of Connor Faughnan.
Owen Keegan is it? I thought it was Eamon and The Greens' fault? At least that's what they're all saying on Facebook.
It's not that many additional cars, as the left lane was fairly short anyway. People will learn to adapt. I know I'l be turning off right at Sheriff St. Upper now anyway. I'm sure plenty of other drivers will too.
The junction has been narrowed so why are people still continuing to use it knowing that they will just add to the congestion in and around the road works? Traffic congestion is solely caused by people who make the choice to drive. It isn't caused by pedestrians, cyclists, train or bus users, horseback riders, people on scooters or people in hot air balloons causing it - would you like to prove me wrong like a mature adult or are you happy to throw out childish insults at anyone who challenges your obvious bias?
Oh, and for the record, I'm not anti-car so if you wish for me to take your insults personally, then you'll need to try harder!
Your point is null and void, there is now no left filter lane so the straight through lane has to take the additional cars right until the left turn, but I'm wasting my time explaining to an anti-car twitter cyclist.
I grew up near enough to that area. I went to school in Fairview. Yes, I think it is fair to say I know the area very well.
What has that got to do with anything though? My point still stands - the only thing causing traffic congestion there is the number of drivers who choose to drive there!
Trolling.
Do you even know where I'm talking about. Stop trolling
No members available to do upcoming VIP escorts so that gives you an idea of how short on man power they are.
Is there anything work-wise actually happening on the North Strand at the moment? I see lots of barriers and cones, but no workers.
Yesterday, around lunchtime, I went from Leixlip to Clontarf and back via the works and there was no congestion. There were a number of private cars travelling inbound but not too many. There were no queues of traffic nor were there any other traffic issues.
So, if you managed to see a queue of traffic two weeks into the construction works, then that tells me one simple thing: there are too many people who make the choice to drive through extremely well publicised road works.
Imagine major road works causing traffic congestion! It’s a total shock, I tells ya. Owen should look at all the other cities that performed water mains renewal under main roads and managed it without any traffic problems at all.
No one commenting locally that they missed appointments or that their elderly aunty couldn't get into town. Funny that
Yeah, I got stuck in that last week. But that section was already bad anyway.
Saville pl going outbound is total gridlock due to the removal of the left turn onto amiens st, traffic is backed up across the liffey upto Pearse St, bravo Owen keegan.
Well only after a lot of grumbling for a number of weeks about traffic jams, not being able to get on buses etc.
It is never seamless!
This year will definitely be unlike every other September when the schools went back, everyone adjusted their commuting times accordingly and there was no congestion or additional delays at all. The good old times, we used to call them 😃
Once the kids go back to school and it starts raining, that's when the real chaos begins apparently.
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