Meanwhile on the Roads...

I suppose where it all comes back to is the general malaise/ lack of interest in tackling driver behaviour. It permeates all the way down from the legislature, to the judiciary, to the Garda Commissioner, to Superintendents, to the underpaid, under-resourced and understaffed Gardai on the streets and roads. And ultimately we end up with a media (I turned the radio on the other morning and literally within 5 seconds Pat Kenny was talking about an incident with a cyclist) a public, and a driver population who just don't care about changing things.

Only 45 mins ago on Aungier St I saw a taxi driver flash his lights, blow his horn and drive 12 inches from the rear bumper of the granny in front of him. Her crime? Driving too slow. You only need to step outside for a couple of minutes and you'd rack up a handful of FCPN cases. Do we have the gardai available to make any impact? No. A culture has crept in of "ah shur it's grand, we probably all do that… leave him off".

I'll also need to phrase this carefully, but in agreeing with your post my main concern would not be the amount of prison time she gets but how we can be reassured we'll never come across her on the roads behind the wheel of a car in the future.

Jesus, I wasn't aware of that feature. FFS like, it reinforces the point I repeatedly make about not blaming the rank and file Gardai for shrugging their shoulders at road behaviour when this is the attitude of society, wholly enabled by our politicians.

You get who you vote for. Absolute shambles.

Will be interesting to see how they manage it. The Bus Eireann service to Dublin uses it, for example. In a similarly strange development, in morning rush hour people now use Newtownmountkennedy to bypass the dual carriageway, which was built to bypass Newtownmountkennedy.

For a county so close to Dublin and all its transport infrastructure; dart, luas, dublin bus, Wicklow is woefully served by public transport considering the amount of urban sprawl from Dublin. Its only going to get worse before it gets better, and a lot of damage will have been done by then. How it's taking so long to do the obvious thing and upgrade the existing railway line to allow for frequent shuttles to Greystones and the dart is beyond me. Yes, there are complicating factors, but christ, is that not why experts are experts? It's patently obvious that the delay is lack of interest. A concerted effort could see Arklow and Wicklow and their various hinterlands reinvigorated. Business and Commercial centres would spread down there, local business would grow, commuters would have a real alternative to the car and there would be justification for building new housing developments in the areas, which have massive potential to ease the burden.