The government are currently investigating increased parking, congestion charges and speed limit reductions in order to help the country meet its climate goals. Looks like a split in the coalition is emerging over the proposals, which are likely to be deeply unpopular. Do you see anything of the proposed that could be considered politically palatable?
Why pick on public sector employees? Are you saying that the bus is good enough for working class public sector employees but the lords and ladies of the private sector living in their genteel rural getaways should have free run into town?
Apologies and post corrected, not yet introduced.
So you complain that 'nothing is happening' and when it is pointed out that you're obviously completely wrong, you complain that 'no one is using them', and throw in an unsubstantiated 'Denis' claim for good measure.
Maybe you just like complaining?
Again, the working class aren't the ones able to move out of Dublin to the sunny uplands of Leinster.
The question was asked as to what the Greens are doing for the working class. By definition, the working class aren't landowners.
I have said for years on here that rural living is unsustainable, and that one-off housing is a huge problem. Those chickens are coming home to roost with petrol and diesel only going one way.
That B.S.
Large scale public transport infrastructure projects are at the heart of the economic idealogy of the centrist parties. Luas was conceived and delivered before there was ever a Green in Government.
They do, however have a massive issue with national scale project management and strategic policy development. Project 2040 is good but needs more ambition.
In a nutshell, if you want more carrot, vote for FF, FG, Labour and SF. If you want more stick, then the Greens are your man.
No public projects can be delivered without a green (small G) hue these days and thats fair enough, but its clear the Green Party ideology is to hang the economic consequences and bulldoze on with punitive and unnecessary policies.
And thats what you get if you vote for them, a risk to jobs and prosperity. They've outlived their usefulness and should be chased off.
That hasn't happened. Instead these punitive taxes have been introduced.
Which "punitive taxes" have been interoduced (in relation to the thread) because the thread is discussing some proposals being examined by the government?
Oh they built some of them alright, I'm sure at great cost to the taxpayer.
It was another of their private partnerships, I could be wrong but I believe Denis O'Brien was involved.
Anyway the average cost is about e30 a day. I don't know who, if anyone, is using them. I've only known state agencies to use them as training facilities.
I work for a fully remote company and I've never heard of anyone using them. They were supposed to be part of a transformative move to remote working, in FFGs own words.
That hasn't happened. Instead these punitive taxes will most likely be introduced.
Nothing happening on remote working hubs, eh?
Just an aside on WFH.
May friend runs wedding planning company, key part of role is working Sat and Bank holidays.Lady just back from ML, which had her off for 9 months and 2 weeks in 2022, has demanded a 3 day week, excluding Saturday and Bank holidays: "let the rest of the team cover that"
The coming recession will give the power back to employers, once ECB rates hit 4.25 later this year and mortgage defaults spiral
Do you know the cost of buying an A rated home, or retrofitting to one?
That's a cost that's coming for individual workers too, and here in part already, along with these commuting taxes.
In terms of climate change we're the ones carrying the bulk of the cost.
Probably because we pay less tax than the employers.. 🙄
Yes I know it was only a right to request.
And it probably would piss off some employers. They might have to learn to deal with it? Adapt?
Why is the hit always on the individual worker?
Here's some more reading on the effectiveness of work from home in reducing c02 and car usage.
https://growremote.ie/remote-working-as-a-powerful-force-for-change-going-remote-can-help-your-company-meet-climate-targets/
My own feeling is that the potential for c02 saving would be even higher in Ireland where we have a lot of long-distance car commuting, especially if delivered with remote-hubs.
Except none of that is happening. We're getting taxed instead.
That’s because if they gave blanket WFH it would piss off employers. Just to correct you slightly, workers have a right to request WFH but they do not have an absolute right to it.
According to the governments own research WFH could save 164,407 tons of c02. The same study also suggested this figure was likely an underestimate.
I also think this study didn't allow for a switch to hub-working, where people would work in shared office thus avoiding inefficient home systems.
This transformative move to remote working and hub-working was all over the programme for government and part of plans to reduce c02.
It wasn't delivered, (anyone surprised?), instead we got the right to request wfh and some public servants working 20% from home.
Oh and now their going to tax the hell out of many hard-pressed commuters instead.
Oh lovely so we’re still blaming individuals for the government’s failure to provide essential infrastructure and services?
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do not post here for 24 hours. 2pm tomorrow.
I made myself clear barely half an hour ago. No personal attacks/uncivil posting. From now on anyone who does that is being threadbanned.
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How do you know they moved. They could be living where they were born & lived all their lives.
Ah personal attacks. That's all you can resort to. Absolutely pathetic. Take a good look at yourself. Embarrassing.
You also have to be lucky enough to live and work in an area serviced by public transport. And lets be honest, there's only a fraction of the country (mostly cities) that are serviced by public transport that's useful for getting to work on time or getting home at a reasonable hour.
I live within a 20 minute walk of the station and I work a 20 minute walk from the next station. If I lived any further away or didnt have flexitime I would be driving to work, my own personal luck regarding where my house and place of employment are does not negate the experience of people in rural Ireland having to commute by car. Where I work a place to live is prohibitively expensive for the vast majority of workers. So must people have to live outside the town and are very poorly served by public transport that will get you to and from work.
People are coping with rain, they moved to commuter areas and bought themselves a car. Those people are now being painted as idiots/selfish/whatever by the likes of yourself. I hope 1980 is not the year of your birth because you should certainly have more cop on at over 40 years of age.
Threadbanned until 1:30pm tomorrow.
Well why not put their time, focus and energy and devise a plan for more housing and better infrastructure to get in. Then when we have access as a nation to either/both commuting into our capital for work or to have the financial ability to rent or buy a place in the capital. Then a genuine discussion on congestion charges can be had. This is a kin to a couple having their divorce plans made years before they get married.
And yer hybrid too, YOU brought it into the discussion, so you should know EXACTLY how much CO2 you have saved with it?
well no one said any carts were being put before the horse any time soon, it's just a model to work towards
Not a chance, not while they are putting the cart before the horse they are the only ones looking for charges now instead of fixing the issues that will actually make it easier for people to leave the car at home. I also hate the fact that they don't show any leadership. How about starting with banning all car parking spots for all public sector employees. I also hate the hypocrisy of Eamo heading to Hong Kong for paddies day no doubt using a car to get to the airport , a plane to fly there and then a car over the other side. These meetings could be done via zoom and his physical presence is not needed in Hong Kong.
"when i travel between 30-40km/h, it is simply not safe to do this speed on a poorly designed cycle track that is shared with pedestrians, joggers"
I do agree with you on the quality of cycle tracks/lanes, but this is a remarkably similar argument to that from motorists who complain about cyclists on the road.
We can all see traffic conditions around us. BTW, how did you work out that I'm not a car driver?
Why don't YOU tell us EXACTLY HOW MUCH CO2 YOU HAVE SAVED doing the right thing with your solar and your hybrid first?
There wont be charges any time soon I'd imagine but if you're keen to see public transport improvements just make sure you vote Green in the next election, the other parties aren't interested.
In fact I would put electric bikes and mopeds at an equal level to cycling because the former offer options to those who are mobility challenged.
Pedelecs do have the same priority as cycling already, they're legally equivalent, and you wouldn't be able to separate the two anyway.
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