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?
The luas is a total joke. particularly in the city centre
Ah so rather than the metro project currently being planned from Swords to Charlemont (i.e. a single line), you are talking about a whole network like London or Paris.
How much would that cost and how long would it take to plan and build?
You moan about PT being uselessmif you don't want to travel along its route structure and then think the huge investment in a metro is necessary to reduce those issues. Have you thought that logic through fully?
Why no free city parking for state workers only? If it's a good idea, surely it's a good idea for all workers, public and private?
Ban the SUV. Madness Ted
Stalker alert - get a life MAGA fanboy
We have one in work, awful driving experience compared to our Berlingo or Transit. It is really cramped with restricted view. I was really surprised when I got into it. Not sure why anyone would wnat one other than as a "style", it certainly isn't more comfy.
Yes if shifting cargo is your thing a Transit is a better bet.
However the driving experience is completely different to a pick up.
Those rangers are fairly popular alright, usually with a Fox, Dakine or Evoc tail pad attached too 😄
I drive a raptor = tell me you're a mountain biker without saying you're a mountain biker!
And the modern versions of the three models you mention are all a lot bigger than the original versions.
The thing is that SUV as a description has lost all meaning.
Partly the fault of the car makers marketing.
Public transport in this city is pathetic. But I do think there should be no free city centre parking for state workers and id introduce a toll to cross the canal. This would stop some some people being very lazy... reduce the Eastling toll or abolish it, it just funnels more traffic through city centre. Massively increase motor tax on new petrol and diesel car sales...
Plenty of people driving them around as commercials... Crazy when you'd fit more items into a normal Van like a transit:
https://twitter.com/JohnLegge1984/status/1652709409288515590
Not when you compare to an Escalade but yes when you compare to a mini, Corolla, Micra etc
At about €80k the price is a barrier in itself.
Even those are small fry compared to the big six wheel pick ups in the US.
The good old boys would laugh at the idea of a 1.4 litre Nissan being called an SUV.
Thankfully not many American sized SUV's around, I do see a lot of those God awful Ford Raptor "pickup" trucks around, if any vehicle should be slapped with a congestion/pollution charge it's those!
Not really an SUV, more like a pumped up Primera.
Does a Qashqai qualify as an "SUV?"
This is a Nissan compared to a common SUV you find in the U.S.
One would hope things would have improved in the 20+ years since I lived in Dublin, but it appears not much.
Back then I was two stops from the start of a bus route. On a fine day it worked but if it rained I could have had three or four full busses pass before one had room and stopped to pick up passengers. If more than one bus passed full my bus, walk, dart, bus commute fell apart and I could be an hour late for work.
Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose.
On an individual level, unless you live and work close to direct public transport route, it is just too time ineficient to be fit for purpose.
My current commute is 30 to 35 minutes by car or more than three times that by public transport, including the 15 minute drive and walk to get to public transport in the first place.
I'd be half way to work by the time I'd only be starting into an hour and twenty minutes of a public transport journey. The marginal cost of using my car is also less than the cost of public transport.
You drive a Quasqai, an SUV. You gona ban yourself?
Interesting to note Citroen bringing back the Berlingo MPV in both petrol and diesel guises after being discontinued in 2020. They are citing increased demand as the reason. Clearly shows that a lot of families still require reliable, trustworthy transportation.....
Most countries have existing train systems which provide a hub/town which you can go to, even if in a car. Then travel into the major cities for work. I know personally NL have an excellent train system. Quickly looking at other countries they have similar.
Ireland of course can do this but building out a train system now will take a lot of time and money. So looking at what we can implement quickly is buses, a bus will be better if you take the traffic off the road which is blocking it from getting quickly to the location.
People will still need cars in all situation and yes changing to electric for some road users will be better for the environment but our entire plan should not be based on more car users. We should be building a system which means that people dont need to buy a car. If you need a car just rent it, I used go car last week and it was an excellent service and this is quite limited at the moment
No PT system will work in Ireland at present without taking cars off the train, we don't have a train system in place to cater for that after years of no investment.
Looking at this, and your electrification comment it seems you think of it as either/or.
It doesn't have to be, and I would think it cannot be, a one size fits all solution.
I think we should be moving towards predominantly PT for urban, predominantly electrification for rural.
That's not replacing all conventional engines with electric, I'd guesstimate reducing overall numbers to 30ish% electric.
I would doubt other countries are looking at intensive PT for dispersed rural areas.
Our overall statistics provide a clear picture. In both absolute and relative terms. We are consistently near the bottom in both European and Global rankings for fatalities etc. by all the main measures, and they are rare by absolute measures like fatalities per billion vehicle kilometres. The data are irrefutable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_traffic-related_death_rate
That is a nonsense statistic, completely meaningless.
It needs to be corrected for two factors, the overall death rate and the proportion of young people among the population.
So let's blame absolutely everything except driver behaviour, got it.
Apart from having the second highest road deaths per capita for 18-24 year olds, of course.
It's a standard methodology used across Europe by professional researchers, but sure, let's listen to what the boards lads say instead, right?
Diesel was indeed pretty bad, particularly the behaviour of the car companies, like VW who frigged their engine management software to behave differently when on a test bed (no one steering) and when on the road.
Electrification is going to do what?
taking 1 million combustion cars and replacing with 1 million electric cars will cost billions to the public in general and also to the grid and the end result will be everyone standing with billions less in pockets and complaining about no public transport
This is indeed true, the idea behind the carbon tax was that people would use less fuel if the price went up and therefore the emissions would come down...
I can see their thinking but it clearly didn't work if our transport emissions are higher now than they were pre-carbon tax
New idea is a congestion charge which has been proven to work in London for example
That link is the age percentage of the total road deaths. It says nothing about how safe our roads are. We have among the lowest roads deaths per million population in Europe, 31 per million. That we have a higher amount of young people dying on our roads should be contributed to the state of our test and training system, and the condition of roads in general.
how do you think they do it in every other country in the World when they use public transport?
You can cherry pick statistics all you want, the overall trend is clear: Ireland has an objectively good road safety record in BOTH relative AND absolute terms. The data behind that conclusion is irrefutable. The vast, vast, majority of Ireland's 2.8 million motorists are not driving around murdering people as you seem to claim. The number of people driving in this country who will ever be involved in, let alone the cause of, a serious or fatal incident, is tiny.
As to part about Donegal having worse air quality than New Delhi ... I'm confused, is Donegal a permanently gridlocked traffic hellscape with cars idling everywhere all the time?
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