Cities around the world that are reducing car access

M50 doesn't only serve the city though, it's national infrastructure. The port tunnel is part of the M50 it's a core artery actively removing HGV's from the city, it's needed at least as long as there's a port!

You're bringing up the M50 in a thread about reducing car access in the city, but it's not really on-topic. There's no efforts I know of to remove car access from the M50. It's hard to imagine it being proposed in the long-term. There are no proposed expansions or modifications either. By bringing it up repeatedly you're unfortunately affectively astroturfing the thread.

We have different definitions of the city.

You are talking about car journeys into the city centre & i am talking about car journeys from one point in Dublin to another point in Dublin.

The majority of traffic on the M50 is not going to the port.

A lot of the movement is cars driving from their homes on the northside to their office on the southside and vice versa.

Some of this traffic may traditionally have driven through the city centre but is now diverted via the M50.

It has not dissapeared. it's been diverted.

If you dont consider all Dublin car journeys you can't comment on all Dublin traffic volumes.

I will leave it there.

Depends on the day of the week in fairness, the tunnel isn't bad on Friday evenings or Saturdays, which is when I am mostly in Cork and since the Dunkettle interchange upgrade it's vastly improved. My usual route is going from Limerick-Mitchelstown-Blackash so I avoid the carparks at Charleville and Buttevant, not sure if it is faster but it certainly feels much faster

A rail P&R at that location, just off a railway line and where there is already a lot of green space, would make a lot of sense, as fast as the current bus option is, it can sometimes get caught in traffic.

Would be nice if things moved a bit faster on the infrastructure point as well. Something like that should have been part of the planning application for the interchange upgrade

How many trains/hour though and when's the last one?

I must add that the rail service from Little Island is also very punctual by Irish public transport standards. It's always been on time, anytime I've used it. You won't always get this with the bus. It's also only 9 mins from Little Island to Cork Kent.

Pondering what to do with the gridlock in Dublin. In 1970. Including a suggestion to try prohibiting cars from the centre for a week to see what happens. And saying planning for 10 years down the line might not be seen as good enough because people want solutions now. That’s not changed much!

While I'm all for reducing car access in the city and better Public transport. The reality is hospitals will always need a lot of car parking.

So hospitals are not good examples in this conversation. And Irish hospitals are poorly planned and located for expansion and parking.

Just seen the latest ad from the RSA chastising e scooter users about their 20kmh limit and carrying things. While the stand over 190 people killed by cars this year. It really is a joke of an organisation.