"Green" policies are destroying this country

hopefully not soon enough to get a few big changes over the line

Nope, traffic evaporation is the likely result, traffic displacement is mostly imaginary in urban contexts, car drivers only tolerate a certain amount of delay before they cease taking the trip.

Personal anecdote, I lived for many years in Dublin 6, born and raised! I work in aviation and by virtue travel to the airport everyday to earn a living. When I lived in Ranelagh and left at 4am for work I’d be across the city in maybe 20/25 mins, quick easy journey. With this plan I’d have to go across Harold’s Cross and Terenure and onto the M50, or towards Ringsend and the east link and port tunnel (presuming you’ll still be able to cross there?!?) the emissions, cost and time that will add up to over the course of a year or even a career is immeasurable! A huge number of the 2/3 journeys cited in that article I’d bet are of similar nature…. People traveling because they need to! There’ll be some evaporation of course but a vast number of the cars crossing the city are doing so out of necessity. True removal of traffic will only happen once there is solutions to the problems this causes.

And I can’t speak for the rest of Dublin, but that gobsh**e Ryan is far from Popular in his own constituency even…. I’d know, I’m from it!

I will in my swift! If I still lived where I used to it would take me almost as long to walk to the bus stop 😂😂 if it even runs 24hrs🤷🏻‍♂️

From where I currently am, which isn’t far away, I use the M50 and its half hour door to door at 4am, little longer later in the morning. Quick efficient journey all things considered.

I said almost as long Eamon. I’ve actually just googled the A2 bus route tho…. It would take me considerably longer to walk to a stop for that, considering it’s in Athlone…. Was it a typo? I based my time off the Aircoach stop in Donnybrook

Dublin route A2 not Athlone route A2. Dublin A2 hasn't started yet.

In more interesting news, battery storage is already edging out diesel peaker plants in Australia

It's becoming cheaper to store excess renewable energy than to maintain and operate thermal peaker power plants.

This will continue and accelerate the decline of fossil fueled electricity generation

https://www.newstalk.com/news/ban-on-cars-driving-through-dublin-city-centre-by-august-eamon-ryan-1640188

A ban on cars and commercial vehicles travelling through Dublin city centre will be in place by August, Eamon Ryan has said.

The Dublin City Centre Transport Plan will be presented to city councillors tomorrow afternoon and aims to stop motorists driving “through” instead of “to” the capital.

Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan said the change will radically transform the capital and predicted other cities would follow suit. 

“They will see a transformation this August when we take the through traffic out of the city centre,” he said. 

“That’s going to make a huge change in Dublin and we can do the same in each of our cities. 

“Those cities that don’t want to be part of it, they will fall behind. 

“They will stay stuck in this car gridlocked, car dependent system.”

Minister Ryan said the final decision about any ban would rest with local authorities but his Department would be happy to pay if they decided to follow Dublin’s example. 

“We’ll provide the funding, we’ll provide the policy background but really this is a matter for local communities or local authorities,” he said. 

“Do you want to go this cleaner, safer [proposal] or stick with the past?” 

Net zero

Yesterday, the European Union announced it wanted a 90% emissions reduction across the bloc, prior to reaching net zero by 2050. 

It is a target Minister Ryan believes is“doable” but challenging. 

“The only way it would work is if this is not divisive, if this is not politically divisive between rural and urban, rich, poor, young, old,” he said. 

“It has to be everyone, every place matters, every sector.” 

Omg!!! M50 is gonna be goosed from August onwards...

Has one political party/cult done so much damage to its own country.ban this ban that,tax to oblivion and the reduction in speed limits in the name of road safety when really it’s green bs to annoy the motorists even more.

A ban on cars and commercial vehicles travelling through Dublin city centre will be in place by August, Eamon Ryan has said

Someone who clearly has no idea how the Jervis and ILAC shopping centres are stocked.

I think that city centre ban was discussed last September too. I remember a Green councillor on the radio talking about it while I flailed the years growth on the hedges around the place

Lets hope no td or councillor wants a tradesman to come quickly from one side of the city to the other.

M50 is goosed as it is. 3pm onward on Friday is the bane of my life.

I'll try public transport to collect my kid (Raheny -> Rathfarnham and back) on Friday when it's back to school in September (2.30pm pick time). I do suspect however that neither M50 nor public transport will work for me. I've like 2.5 hours max to get over and get back. (Work commitments)

I'll think of something though hopefully.

How can anyone believe they can ban commercial vehicles???

That’s basically the whole city centre shut down.

How will the food get you the supermarkets for example??

Sounds like an April fools joke people have swallowed.