https://www.independent.ie/regionals/dublin/dublin-news/cars-to-be-banned-from-areas-of-dublins-quays-as-part-of-city-transport-plan/a745050370.html#:~:text=Dublin%20GAA-,Cars%20to%20be%20banned%20from%20areas%20of%20Dublin's,part%20of%20city%20transport%20plan&text=The%20first%20measures%20to%20reduce,Bachelor's%20Walk%20and%20Aston%20Quay.
Can't say I'm in favor of where we're going with this. Whatever about a congestion charge like london, an outright ban seems too… cabbage ryan… for my liking.
I think you need to have a look at trains and buses. Then you have the Luas of course as well
https://dublinmap360.com/dublin-bus-map
I know you're just taking the P*ss here, but long before "the climate" was front of stage the same problems existed in Dublin city so your argument holds as much water as a laundry basket..
OK. So why do we not have the cameras that I listed. No matter which way you vote, surely a no brainer for road safety
If you pick a random address around Balgriffin (say) and want to go to the National Rehabilitation Hospital then it does not offer any route less than 1:30 hours and most are 1:45. If you want to go to a residential address somewhere around Sallynoggin then it would take 10 minutes more. Start off around Ongar and it is 10 minutes more. Now you could cycle in less time, at least for the first journey, and this may be what Ryan wants but perhaps if you have business in the National Rehabilitation Hospital that is not a possibility. You could drive from Ongar to Fermanagh in less time.
I like cars, manual petrol ones that wreck the environment, lol, but still you've got to understand the special type of idiocy car decency is.
As always the needs of the many outway the needs of the individual. Proper public transport is the best bang for your buck, we once had trams and narrow gauge railways but due to ineptitude and atrocious, corrupt, planning we've ended up with a car centric rural suburbia model. A model that is proven to be economically and socially unsustainable.
The Green thread is hilarious, you will find months of complaining the Green party shut down the ESB power plants when it was done in the previous government
You had one person going on now for 3-4 years about how terrible wind is, when question he was going to vote Sinn Fein to put a stop to it. Yet when I pointed out Sinn Fein only policies say they will speed up the deployment of wind it was still seemingly the Green Parties fault.
The majority of people complaining about the Green party have no idea about their policies or the policies of the party they think are great
The trials started already with the camera and the company on the proof of concept failed, this is now been renewed to use a more appropriate solution. Plenty of info around
The original POC was put in place by DCC and before Green Party came into government, maybe starting around the same time
Balgriffin to the NRH, should we assume you are going there to receive treatment so are also unfit to drive a motor vehicle? If so then it's 30 mins by Taxi along the M50.
Im sure you can spend all days picking random address's that next to nobody will ever travel to get long public transport times.
The minor issue here is public transport is about moving large groups of people from one location to another. The routes picked are based on the amount of people wanting to move from A to B.
If you want to create a bus service that cater for every single person in Dublin and the odd whim trip they might have to make, it won't work
Cyclists are too. My neighbour is a Garda. He told me there’s no law to compel cyclists to use cycle lanes. Almost every time I’m driving up the Quays north side, I’ve seen busses & coaches crawling because they cannot get past a cyclist in the bus lane, when there is a designated cycle lane running alongside the Liffey.
The point is that people will provide their own transport, but every effort is being made to prevent them doing this.
Was it on this section of the Liffey that you saw the cyclists not using the cycle lane?
I don’t know what You are implying-there isn’t even a cycle lane in your photo. I don’t know the quay names but it was the quay either side of Capel Street Bridge I was referring to.
be under no illusion , the Green Party would love all private cars…GONE…. (Apart from their own of course ). But any reasonable person must realise that in the absence of private cars people need effective, functional public transportation that goes where you need to go and times you want to go at. That’s a fail in lreland. We are light years behind
You are making up random one way trips, that is never going to be replaced with public transport. It's about mass movement of people.
When has the Green Party said they want all private cars "GONE"?
To be fair to Ryan, his determination, persistence and non stop personal dedication to drive the myriad of public transport projects to fruition give him the space within which to pursue these initiatives. He's earned it.
Was just wondering where the location of your complaint was..
Further down the cycle path is on the outside of the road so if someone on a bike wants to turn down to Jervis street then they'd be on the left in the bus lane..
Not at all. This is largely driven by the climate clowns. Disguised under the veil of improving public transport usage. It'll make no difference for many who are miles away from any bus or train. Even those who are fortunate to live on a commuter line wont benefit a lot.
Dublin doesnt have the public transport infrastructure to justify this mad stuff. London does. Paris does. Amsterdam does etc.
Which is my point, in this respect minorities are simply ignored by public policy. In other aspects of society this is not acceptable, indeed in many cases you could not even advocate it on boards without censored.
You have "randomly" picked routes that are inconvenient as possible for public transport, but also not remotely affected by the proposed changes.
I can find plenty of trips that take over an hour by public transport in London but take 30 mins by car when there is no traffic. Are we going to say that London is insufficiently covered by public transport also?
Oh….you don’t recall then when mr Ryan stated the people in towns and villages use communal cars they could use? That people shouldn’t own their own cars
No they are not, the fact is public transport will make it a lot easier and cheaper for people to travel around.
Not investing in public transport in case one day one person might want to go in one direction which might take longer than usual is very very short sighted.
Talking about building a society based on everyone having a car is just making sure you keep people down and they can never get any further in life, if they can't afford to buy a car and keep it on the road then they should just get lost.
Even if a person has to take two buses instead of one they can still get to the location, if they have no car what do they do?
I expect you have a car so you don't really care about anyone who doesn't have one. The roads should be left clear for you to drive around.
I have the benefit of a car but I also use public transport.
I would wager an average cyclist is going about 5kph below the speed limit on the quays. It is hardly going to make a colossal difference.
While annoying, it is sometimes unavoidable if cyclists wish to turn left off the road. Equating it to being forced to be stationery due to traffic is completely asinine.
I think you should do a little bit of research on what he said, better to read comments than what you seen on twitter.
l have researched it. I also know he drove a diesel guzzling vw while he was advocating this.
The same arguments about restricting cars was made in Dublin back in the 1960's, so you can't blame the "Climate clowns" back then eh?
Amsterdam didn't get it's fantastic public transport because they wanted to drive their private cars all over Amsterdam as free as a bird now did they?
exhibit A…..
It was a proposal to share/pool cars so that people who only needed a car occasionally could avoid the expense of buying one.
It was never suggested that car ownership would be banned.
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/green-party-leader-calls-for-car-pooling-scheme-for-rural-ireland-1.4046585
Now I know you are using twitter
The van was because he had 4 children, it was also converted to biodiesel. It was used before to transport the former party members around to canvass. He bought it in 2007 and was only scrapped a few years back as biodiesel was no longer avaiable
He made an interview about it in 2020, when he said the best thing for people was to run cars into the ground and not buy new electric ones. But if they are buying new cars to go with electric or the most environmentally friendly they could afford
Next time, I suggest you look into the other nonsense you posted as well
Read the article, not the headline 😂
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