2024 - Dublin STILL ranked as second worst city in the Europe for traveling by car

Agree. But its amazing that these 204 other cities were able to do it. Dublin must be unique for some reason.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_metro_systems

A lot of these cities especially in western Europe had their Metro systems built following the destruction of their cities in WW2, I mean London started in the 19th century! Whereas in Dublin during the time of WW2 the Tram lines were ripped up and building demolished to make way for wider roads, all to accommodate the private car… Now Dublin is too densely built up to allow the ground to be ripped up to build an underground system.

Most of your examples are either part of existing underground systems or installed in relatively new cities in comparison to Dublin, which was first established in Viking times..

I've citied two examples, Glasnevin and Stephens green where the proposed metro was vehemently objected to by residents, businesses and politicians.. Here's another for the Charlemont street and south metro station:

NTA Charlemont Proposal
• Adds the additional cost of a longer tunnel and the full build out of
an additional station (hundreds of million euro)
• Adds construction complexity in a very constrained site including“Dartmouth Road closed to traffic for 2.5 to up to 5 years

We all want World Class public transport in the city, however there's no magical solution without compromise, which doesn't appear to be happening.

Oh agree. Gave up decades ago myself. Never going to happen.

One cheap thing they could do to improve and encourage public transport is to fine anyone using speakers on public transport.

One small step.

Hmmm, I encounter it regularly. But maybe I'm more easily annoyed 🙄. It's not just the lack of headphones, it's people loudly talking their private business on public transport .. for long periods of time.

I'm sure you know very well why putting the cycle lanes on the grass verge isn't such the easy option as you're trying to make out here..

Putting it off road will mean extra construction due to the fact that the route isn't continuous and also covers areas of Dublin bay protected by EU law, so studies would have to be done on how to route the cycle lanes around those areas.. experts put 15 years as the figure needed to make the route off-road… meaning the S2C cycle route will enter it's 40 year of planning and implementation..

Tenzor has already said the important bit, but just to add that approach also fails to deal with the constrained section at the bottom of Strand Road at the Merrion Gates.

It's been shown before recently during the Irish Water works that Strand Road can be made one way, without the world completely collapsing in on itself. Mysteriously a lot of people seem to have forgotten that already.

Majority clearly votes not at all

It is being done in a way that treats thousands of citizens with contempt so that they can avoid the hassle of doing it right.

How would a bus route on the M50 be supposed to work exactly?

You can't have bus stops on the motorway.

So at every junction the bus has to pull off the motorway, drive to where a stop can be placed, stop, find a place where it can turn around, and rejoin the motorway. This is going to take ages

Even so the stops will not be within walking distance of where most passengers want to go. So local bus - wait - M50 bus - wait - local bus at the other end. So where's the advantage?

Thats why people drive.

An underground network could moce a lot of those people to their destination quicker than the car. Buses cant even enter the race, as you rightly say.

Bus ramps should have been engineered when the road was upgraded. These should have led to interchange points with radial routes. So that anyone in Mulhaddart could take any bus toward town, and quickly change to a bus to Sandyford. It was doable when the M50 was upgraded, it would have cost something but it would have provided effective PT for some of those who use the M50 and if traffic was reduced by 10% then it would work better for those who needed it.

I would build and upgrade short routes parallel to the M50 for local journeys, then toll all trips on the M50, so that the €2 on the bus would be less than the toll. You could even vary the toll to charge more at peak times. I would further have built park and rides connected to these bus services, so that people are parked there rather than at their employer on the other side of the city.