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.
"perfect" public transport? Maybe just remotely fit for purpose would be a good start.
So lets starting taking cars off some roads so our public transport gets fit for purpose?
Get a taxi
Dublin bus carried 145m people last year
Luas 48m
Go Ahead 16m in Dublin area
If you looked at this thread you would think nobody is using public transport
I always get the impression that these comments come from people who basically never use the public transport we have in the first place.
if they really want to reduce cars in the city centre during rush hour, they should incentivise working from home for any jobs that can actually be done from home.
How is that going to help the trains and Luases that are crush loaded for hours every day? Or the buses and luases that have to negotiate with each other to get through the College St. bottleneck?
so now public transport is overloaded? So wouldn’t more public transport and less cars be better?
Perhaps more people can use buses, that arrive on time because there are less cars on the road to block them?
How is public transport not remotely fit for purpose when many Dubliners commute to work on it for their entire working lives? Both my parents did, I always have when I'm not on the bike. If you work somewhere in the city centre, from my experience nearly everyone is coming in on public transport. I can think of 2 people who drive in to our Baggot St office now, coming from Artane and Kilmainham, places you could walk from really.
Taxis are the main cause of congestion at College Street.
Not only do certain contributors on here never use Public transport, but they don't even live in Dublin or ever drive through the college green or Liffey quays areas…
It clearly works well because so many people using public transport it is "crush loaded" every day 😂
Well on crush-loaded DARTs and commuter trains (also the Luas Green Line from Sandyford) less people driving cars would probably mean MORE crush loading on heavy rail and the luas. Of course most people in Dublin aren't 'lucky' enough to even have crush loaded trains/trams, and rely on buses that keep getting slower and slower even though there are more bus lanes and bus gates.
Anyone who is telling you the public transport in Dublin is any way fit for purpose either A) has never been to Dublin or B) is gaslighting you.
god you're annoying. have you used the dart lately? even at rush hour in the morning it's fine, it was way worse 20 years ago.
Well I use the trains and the Luas every week and I am not "crush loading"
Maybe you can share your personal experience of these?
The only people saying you can't use public transport
A) they don't use it
B? is gaslighting you 😂
As I posted above millions use it in Dublin yearly.
or C) they are one of the hundreds of thousands of people actually using the public transport network in Dublin.
I've an uncle who does nothing but complain about how bad public transport is in Dublin. He hasn't been on a Dublin Bus in over 20 years and has never been on a Luas in his life.
Some people just like complaining for the sake of it.
yeah if they're not complaining about how crowded they are they go on about how dangerous it is or that someone with BO issues will sit beside them. agoraphobic weirdos.
There is a substantial group of motorists who only have themselves to blame for the implementation of active travel.
They forever lie about how they "would use public transport if" or "cycle but" and then cry when the government act to alleviate their ifs and buts.
If they were just honest enough to admit they have a snobbery towards public transport and bikes then the government might not be trying as hard to do the things they keep asking for.
There is a fair section of the Irish population who are too embarrassed to cycle or get a bus or they think people who do use them are just "losers who can't afford a car". They should just be honest about it.
it’s not an outright ban. It just on the quays , where single occupancy cars seriously impede the flow of much more efficient public transport transport
Do you use public transport in Dublin?
it’s already 2 minutes faster not to go on the quays if it’s an emergency, ring an ambulance
I was assaulted on thr Dart thirty years ago and I still feel afraid on the Dart, it was a drunk older slob and I was left in tears.
I tell my own daughters to get the bus instead as you have a driver to assist you.
Dublin city is not safe, daughter had her phone grabbed from her hand while waiting for a bus at Trinity College, other daughter cycled my bike in and that was stolen too.
Frienfs son went into town on first night out with college pals, punched for no reason,ends up seriously ill in hospital wth brain bleed.
Another pals son calls a taxi, someone tries to get in ahead of him, griends son says thats my taxi, another punch, jaw broken and teeth lost.
Friend of youngest girl has bag stolen, replaces everything, thrown to the ground at 4pm in Temple Bar, everything stolen again.
I have no skin in this hame, never go into the city but if cars are removed then less people around at night, less buses and taxis too so you will have large public realms with neither the security of passing traffic or gardai to police it.
Its all men on bikes pushing this stuff, Eamon Ryan down, the City Council staff, the public reps,literally everyone posting here is a man, is anyone looking at this from the frmale point of view.
How do you know its limited, you have no clue and as you havent been impacted its not a problem.( in your opinion)
Train and bus drivers are saying public transport isnt safe, Im inclined to listen to those at the coalface.
Getting more people onto public transport will make it safer (but I would not make the claim that it is not safe!) but if there are any problems then it is a legal failure not a bus lane failure.
Getting a dedicated Transport Garda division is whats needed.
Seeing as there are so few Gardai available to maintain a feeling of safety in the city centre we wont be getting protection on public transport anytime soon.
Possibly but the subject of transport police has little to do with the the bullsh1t sense of victimhood some on here have because the council are facilitating movement of numbers of people over some peoples sense of entitlement
Do these changes mean the Strand Road going one way is now dropped.
Im wondering if access to Pearse Street is to be limited where will cars cross if access to the East link goes if Strand Road is closed one way, is there any update on the Strand Road plan.
I drive South to North a lot, down Merrion Square, westland Row, turn left onto Pearse Street. I will continue to drive, which route will I be directed to, will this plan not divert traffic onto nearby roads, whats the point in the plans for Pearse St, what am I missing.
Nothing to do with Strand Road (or any other road) but Irish Rail will probably be the biggest factor deciding it.
This project is about reducing the through-traffic from the quays but if you read the articles on it, you'd know that.
