Dublin. 3rd slowest city to drive through.

Would you like cities to be places you can drive through at great speed?

False dilemma there.

There's a big difference between sitting in traffic, and speeding.

Reasons are numerous, but the lack of a metro, poor cycling infrastructure, horrendous urban sprawl, building large apartment blocks well over 10km from the city center, all feed into this.

Considering its TomTom GPS data and it's a TomTom study I don't think they would have studied eg. European cities that have (rightfully) banned cars in the city center etc.

Had to drive from the south city centre to the airport a few weeks ago and Christ yes i couldn’t believe how slow it was. A painful crawl through Drumcondra and Whitehall. Took me the bones of an hour, in fairness it was evening rush hour. Several of the traffic light sequences seemed to be all wrong and not favouring the heaviest traffic approach

How is it deluded?

Someone got it.

There's a global reduction of cars in cities. They don't want people driving through them, they're making it more difficult for cars to get through the cities.

I'd hardly lay all the blame on them (as you say they are not the big 2 parties that have held power over history of the state) but they're not really doing great at all imo (as regards Dublin, which is what I am interested in).

The timeframes on the very expensive stuff we have been waiting on for 2 decades at least already that will really change transport in Dublin seem insane to me. The way there is little noise about it is telling, I think noone really believes the big projects will happen any more, "jam tomorrow" has been said too many times now and it's greeted with a shrug.

Even the "Busconnects" (better bus lanes, road changes, and changing of routes - woop, hardly f-cking rocket science) is a bit of a joke as regards how long it is taking.

I think it is maybe 2025-30 for the Busconnects, 2035 for the Metro and beyond 2040 if lucky for the DART/rail interconnector!

The big rail projects are all so slow and so far away from starting construction let alone completion it is all but certain there will be another economic slowdown in Ireland in the meantime. A cynic like me might predict the rural electorate and their TDs will treat them as extravagant expenditure on fancy geegaws for "city folk who just get too much anyway" + scream for them all to be cancelled yet again.

I may be pushing daisies before anything except the high tech bus lanes gets done.

A bit disingenuous to blame it on planning and red tape. The planning application for metro was only submitted in September last year. The reality is that the political will wasn't there before to support the project despite all three parties of the current government being in office at various times over the last 15 years.

It’s a blessing in one way.

Even terrorists ploughing into crowds drive slowly.

Add the school run, traffic noticably lighter during breaks and holidays. I see parents dropping kids of to my one's school in cars, some living less than 1k away. It's ridiculous, and contributes to the obesity issue.