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?
this is a typical scene for most Dublin bus lanes at rush hour. Will we ever have bus lane enforcement in Ireland? In London cameras get you and send a fine immediately.
So thats no not likely. So rural towns is a nonsense argument.
If you can afford the treatments at the Blackrock clinic then a congestion charge isn't a worry in the slightest! :-D
Are taxes a new thing only introduced with the greens?
I'm not a fan of the shambles thats the green party but I think your giving them a bit too much credit.
If they tried to fine all the drivers you would end up with more revenue than a congestion charge to be honest.
Bus lanes are never adhered to and evem if they hired more Gardai they would not be able to enforce
it is mad that people think all their woes and taxes are due to the green party, it's a great situation for other parties tbf
Fuel taxes, import and vrt excise taxes, they were all there before. But they are adding carbon taxes and standing charges to pay for the high rates guaranteed approveded at auctions for wind and solar for next ten years. It means your electric bill wont come down much even if a surplus of renewables. Also Ryan was the one that approved big biz getting subsidised on the back of consumers electricity bills back in 2009 or so. Then he claimed it was an oversight!
They will be increasing the carbon taxes stradily and now adding these congestion charges and what not.
The government including.the greens went soft on the worst polluters, the farmers , and consumers are going to pick up the carbon reduction tab.
It's an official cycle lane and the one at the Blackrock bypass is a high standard!
No, the reason is that sick people and their relatives don't want to be squashed onto public transport during a stresful enough time and shouldn't be punished for it either with extra taxes..
Bus lane cameras are being held up by the Dept of Justice (like many other progressive methods of enforcement).
In terms of gardai enforcing bus lane laws, we have been paying AGS to enforce laws that were being broken simply because they hadn't been enforcing them...
This is why I think Bus Connects is an almost pointless exercise. If they build these new bus lanes and there's no enforcement it's a lost cause.
Maybe the answer is not a congestion charge but proper policing of the bus lanes and if someone goes into one then it is an automatic fine
In terms of cameras, normally these are held up because you have a group of people complaining that their rights are been take away because you can record them. These are normally the people sitting blocking the bus lane.
If someone breaks the bus lane and automatically gets a 100 euro fine. That revenue if pushed back into public transport could work. Along with getting cars out of bus lanes.
I do agree, bus corridors will not work at the moment because it will be just full of gobshites in cars who are late for work
Carbon tax increases got made by all the parties and the recent ones planned before the Greens got into government.
The change in 2009 was made to attract business when the World was crippled and Ireland was a basket case. Was it a right move then? yes. Should it have been stopped? yes...but sometime around 2014-2018 do you not think?
Even the magically opposition have no plans to remove carbon tax and for all the bluster recently they only wanted to delay increases, not stop them.
In regards to farmers, do you want food on the table? do you realise how much money Ireland makes from exporting food? plus as far as I am aware farmers are been massively pushed to reduce CO2
Well as it currently stands, neither policing or congestion charges are in place.
However, even with proper enforcement, there still would be an issue with too many vehicles being driven into our cities and this has been shown to be affecting the air quality for residents amongst other issues. As we know, many of these vehicles are being brought in purely because of convenience and this does cause delays to those that do need to drive into the cities.
I think the GDPR issue about traffic cameras may have been overcome.
They have been operating on the N7 between Nenagh and Limerick for some time.
Well theres that too :)
I think, could be wrong, issues in Dublin is because it is so built up
Its a fake argument. The majority of patients are not travelling daily to the hospital for extended period of time. Parking fees will be more of an issue. There is a case to be made for exemptions, like a temporary pass for tolls, and parking for people getting regular treatment, or travelling with them. Like a wheel chair pass.
That you'd choose to focus on a congestion charge in a hospital unlikely to be in the zone, and ignore the issues with parking and higher cost, speaks volumes.
Might be but they would be set to record number plates.
If so there shouldn't be an issue for passers by. Unlikely anyone would be crossing the road at such locations.
Cyclists would be unidentifiable on cameras focussed at number plate level.
And when you say 'accidents', you mean crashes or collisions. Drivers don't accidentally press the accelerator, or pick up their phone, or drink that pint before driving.
We do ban trucks from city centres, but we don't enforce it. We even have an app for checking if the truck has a permit, and if it doesn't, we do nothing about it.
It may be official, but it's still just an official bit of white paint, utterly useless for cyclists, in fact, worse than useless, in that it actually creates danger for cyclists. The one on the bypass is decent, and the coastal mobility route is very good.
Let's not kid ourselves that the majority of patients entering Blackrock Clinic are sick to the point of being unable to use public transport. Many of them are pregnant, many of them are going for eye surgery or hair transplants or other cosmetic procedures. There are indeed some people who would be unable to use public transport, but these wouldn't constitute the majority.
Disabled drivers are exempt from tolls already.
The point being it could be done for congestion charge exactly the same.
We don't have any lack of food. Most of the emissions are from dairy farming, a very polluting industry that is now big business. They could switch to tillage or chickens which produce less emissions.
The govt went soft on the farming sector which means they are going to have to make their overall carbon reduction from transport and energy up to 2030, ratcheting up the pain on consumers even more.
Why would I need to when you have the answer?
Quite often posters are bluffing.
There's only so much carbon you can take out of farming before food supplies get affected though.
Like shooting fish in a barrel it's easier to reduce emissions on our roads by making it easier for people to take public transport
Farming and the food industry is a Global industry. We export food all over the world, only to import similar food from elsewhere into Ireland.
As a result its got nothing to do with food supplies here.
most of our land is used for beef and dairy and we export 90% of it, so even if we made massive carbon reductions in farming it wouldn't affect our own food supply, we import most of what we eat anyway.
Where did I say that I have the answer?
Pls remember, no tax will ever save the climate, if that is the intention or the "sales position" of this tax / congestion charge or parking fees hike.
Nobody said it was. The purpose of using a stick is because many people refuse to look at the carrot. The idea behind the tax (if it were to be approved) is not for revenue but to discourage people driving (mostly single occupancy cars) into a congested city centre. It is that behavioural switch that will help reduce our transport emissions.
