Cities around the world that are reducing car access

"No consultation about clogging Dublin with cars in the first place."

Cars have had a ruinous effect on our public transport for decades.

Cars prevent improvements to public transport.

Cars have killed and maimed many users of the city centre.

Cars and congestion deter untold numbers from coming into the city in the first place.

Cars and congestion create pollution suffered by all users of the city.

Cars and congestion are worsening the climate crisis for which we'll all pay dearly and in many ways.

A big "HELLO, WAKE UP" to Mr Shakespeare, Fine Gael and the Car Park People who are trapped in the 1950s !!!! There's a climate emergency in progress and you're making it worse.

It's great to see improved civic engagement with respect to the centre of the city. Surely a reflection of the rapidly changing demographics of the core.

Traditionally the actual inhabitants of the core of the city were largely "just poor people" or "transients" - those with political and bureaucratic power resided in the leafy suburbs.

Reading some of the history of the 1960s and 70s road-widening schemes in Dublin, what's surprising was that it isn't just a modern phenomena to reject these sort of schemes. These schemes were almost universally unpopular with the inhabitants of the city. Yet despite mass protests and some sympathetic media, the council (corporation back then) just ignored it and with incredible arrogance charged ahead with mass CPOing terraces around the city, kicking out the businesses and residents and then allowing the buildings to rot as the council only had a budget for the demolition but not the construction of their dreamed dual-carraigeways criss crossing the centre of the city. Want to demolish homes, businesses and historic building stock for road-widening schemes to improve commuting by car times? Do in the centre of the city. Want a massive drug treatment centre to serve addicts from a wide metropolitan area? Put it in the centre. Want to build concentrated areas of "flats"/social housing - again use the centre (or completely outside the city).

While even suggesting disruption to a suburban tram service in order to provide the first proper metro line in the city and the well resourced and powerfully connected citizens Ranelagh will come at you and win.

While the demographics have changed (I believe the population within the canals has doubled in the last 25 years - including presumably lots of relatively high earners), the ingrained snobbery and arrogance of DCC towards the people and the city they are supposed to be representing has not.

It's frustrating but a good start I guess all things considered. A good few Saturday sit-ins on that left turning lane on Bachelor's walk could get it over the line, will need some good weather in September.

Yes, and you wouldn't expect passenger numbers to react that quickly for what were preexisting services. The reduction in journey times is certainly welcome, particularly as it comes at a time when journey times usually increase.

survey here on College Green public realm

https://engage.dublincity.ie/en-IE/projects/college-green-dame-street-public-realm-project

I'd there a point in doing this now? We're 3 years away from the bus connects network revision finishing. Can buses be diverted before that?

For Capel Street, you're quicker walking from Parnell/Westmoreland than switching to a Luas at Abbey Street and going one stop to Jervis, which is still another 300metres from the middle of Capel Street.

The 'problem' or point I'm making, is that an 800-1000m walk from Parnell/Westmoreland to Capel Street is a very poor connection. The same is going to apply to George's Street as soon as College Green is closed.

Both districts are quite well served by public transport, just not joined so directly. I can't remember them ever having much that resembled a direct connection. The 83 maybe?

If walking 800m is genuinely a problem it's about 400m from Dominick to Capel Street.

Or from Westmoreland jump on the first bus going down the quays and go 1 or 2 stops (the 90 minute transfer means it's probably not going to cost anything extra)

Dublin is bigger than it used to be. Not everything that happens in the city is going to happen with a couple of minutes walk of a single point on a map. The city is going to be multicentric and transport is going to be multimodal.