New bus gates on Bachelors Walk and Aston Quay

Compromise between who and who?

Lots of extremely wealthy folks get on buses regularly, you don't know how any particular demographic travels.

This isn't Victorian Britain, we don't have have bend the knee for folks based on their perceived financial status, if they dont want to travel that's up to them.

This poster is clearly just a wind-up merchant if they still don't understand motor tax after all the replies. Best to ignore them as they're derailing the thread.

I suspect many who are giving out about the bus gate never actually drive or use these routes, and thus not actually inconvenienced.

Not that you have to use the route to have an opinion.

So you now admit you were completely wrong? And for some reason it took you multiple posts to do so, despite being given a direct quote from the minister showing you were wrong? And now, even knowing you're wrong, you are continuing to push an absolute fabrication, just because it suits your narrative?

likley record motor tax revenue

Yet another swing and a miss. Motor tax revenue is way down from what it was. You have already been given a link showing that it fell every year between 2015 and 2019. That trend has continued, and in 2023 is now down 36% from what it was in 2015.

Here's an idea: the next time you have a thought, how about you actually go and do some research before posting it?

I went from Heuston as far as Christchurch at 9am. Never seen traffic so light. Turned off well before the bus gate so can't comment on downstream.

maybe but nothing clogs up the city like a bit of baisteach

It will be worse tomorrow. WFH still lightens the traffic on Mondays and Fridays.

The quays were very light (car wise) around 8.45am today, going from Heuston to Rosie Hackett Bridge.

You say public transport needs to improve yet when a measure is introduced to do just that you say that it should be delayed! You can't have streets clogged with cars and expect smooth running bus services.

I'm not sure what you mean about no "underground" being planned. Haven't you heard about Metrolink?

Also, how many people travelling from Navan need to drive along the quays?

The biggest impediment to our public transport system IS private cars;

I travel by public transport most days to (not through) the City Centre so I'm not impacted either positively or negatively by the changes on the quays. However, I do think that some attention needs to be given to public transport elsewhere in the city. Last Tuesday the secondary schools went back and there was an immediate impact on buses and Luas (I take both) to the point that you simply couldn't get on some services at peak times. From experience of previous years, this settles down a little bit over September but when the third level colleges go back it becomes impossible with the upshot being that if you want to get onto a public transport service you need to leave earlier and earlier.

I don't know why so many drive in and out of the city - particularly in the winter months. What I do know is that if a reasonable percentage of drivers decided to get onto public transport instead, there is simply no room for them. I also suspect the fact that so many office workers are not doing five days in the office anymore is also masking a lot of the public transport deficiencies in this regard and I doubt the system could cope if we went back to the pre-COVID ways of working.

There is an inherent inconsistency in your post. On the one hand, you call for Dublin to be more like Paris and London, yet on the other hand you complain about the very things that have made Paris and London centres so easy to get around - major restrictions on cars, priority in the city centre for buses, pedestrians and cyclists, the banning of cars, and the tolls on cars where they are not banned, etc.

Can somone explain what people are driving into the city to buy that requires cars? All the big box shops for TV's, home appliances etc are available in the suburbs. Anything in the shops in the center is typically high value and usually portable enough. If I want to buy something in the city I hop on the train as its faster and cheaper than parking in there.

There IS a huge amount of attention being given to public transport elsewhere. The BusConnects scheme is rebuilding the bus network from scratch, while keeping day to day services running. There are significant investments in the fleet and capacity.

If buses can get through the city faster, that in itself will allow capacity to increased.