Potential for €10 congestion charge, parking increases of 400% and a 20kmh reduction in speed limits

You're describing a pretty normal public transport journey there for any city though. Like I live about a 15 min cycle from Liverpool St Station but it would take about 45 mins to walk and get a bus there and sit in traffic. Like what do people expect ffs.

That example is not a case of poor infrastructure. It deciding to live away from everything, and expecting the mountain to move to you.

You made it inconvenient. Its a daft argument and nothing to do with congestion charge.

It has everything to do with congestion charges. Its one example, of many, where public transport is a total joke in Dublin, the same Dublin where they want to bring a congestion charge in.

People will not abandon cars until public transport is the stupidly convenient option.

That's true, for me to drive to the office it's 12mins, to get public transport it's 3 x times that... the choice is clear..

The choice is clear that we need to make it harder for people driving when they can take a 36 minute public transport journey

Because punishing people for making the "wrong" choice is so much more satisfying than making the "right" choice more reasonable.

I agree with you on the "mansion in the middle of nowhere" - one off-housing is an almost insurmountable barrier when it comes to economical or anyway practical public transport for a huge proportion of our population, but repartitions (in the form of fuel taxes) for decades of awful planning policy is now being foisted on individuals who saw no other choice on where to raise their families.

I live just over 1km from Stephens Green. I have the Aircoach on my doorstep, a bus to the city center every 5 minutes, DublinBikes minutes away, private secure parking for my bikes, ability to charge my car on my doorstep or at a fast-charger 5 mins away. I pay dearly to live in a 1 bedroom apartment in the area, and like you I have very little sympathy for mansion dwellers who complain about no broadband or busses.

But, my job means that I need to work in a town 30 minutes from Galway. It has a population of 9,000, not huge but not tiny. After 10pm, no public transports exists from Galway, or to anywhere else for that matter. People who live in a large regional town, often in modest houses, who have done their level best to limit their car usage within the confines of their income (not being able to afford a house in Galway), are still forced into their car if they work shifts, go out with friends in the city, or dare to travel for any reason whatsoever outside of peak times. I think that's totally unreasonable, and there are plenty of people who fall into that category, who certainly aren't living in mansion.

And I know the retort will be that public transport to such towns isn't viable because so many people are driving, but put in the (loss making) public transport FIRST, and THEN raise taxes on private car usage.

Isn't it interesting about Fairview that people chose the next best option and just ignored the restrictions, which seems to be working fine.