Cities around the world that are reducing car access

I guess they think its easier than ya know, improving road safety.

We still dont know if and when to expect the proposed improvements to: Lincoln place, Pearse and Tara St, Hereford place or custom house quay. No word on putting in the 24hr bus gate on the north quays as far as Jervis.

It sounds like these interventions are going to directly facilitate the changes needed at either Beresford Place or CHQ, although I really think they would pick CHQ over Beresford Place. CHQ is closed quite a bit as is and it would be easy to divert the traffic. Beresford Place not as much, and it eliminates an important bus terminus for BÉ.

With Lincoln Place I am wondering if they are waiting for the B-Spine because of the need for a left turn onto a two-way Merriod Street Lower. I am not sure if DCC want to have any left turn there, as it might significantly reduce the amount of pedestrian space, and there are currently a lot of buses that would make that turn. After the B-Spine it would only be the 44, 2-3 outer commuters, and some commerical services that need to be rerouted.

The Pearse and Tara St changes can't happen soon enough. I am really hoping some plans are announced soon.

I don’t have a licence. 😉

Road policing personnel dropped by 41% over 15 years. Serious injuries are way up on 2014 levels (80% higher) and have been increasing since 2014. Gardai are possibly catching more offenders because there are so many more for them to catch.

Also here's the indecon RSA report (which heavily focuses on management and funding rather than road safety outcomes). It's a good read. In simple terms the RSA is not making enough money and are prioritising revenue-generating activities rather than road safety, education, and coordination which are non-fee earning activities.

https://assets.gov.ie/static/documents/indecon-review-of-the-road-safety-authority.pdf

Generally speaking, RSA has 445 full time employees. 250 ish are involved in driver testing and training. 31 ish are involved in vehicle testing and vehicle standards. 52 are involved in enforcement, 11 are involved in research, 8 are involved in communications and content management.

6 are involved in road safety education.

According to the report, they're not able well able to fund research-based evaluation of promotional compaigns. It's 2.4% of their personnel, reviewing the work of ~1.8% of their personnel. In that context, their current public focus/prioritisation of scooters seems….interesting… I say this as someone who's never even used a scooter. The phrase "smoke and mirrors" comes to mind. The Father Ted "another prayer" theme also comes to mind.

So frustrating, same sort of problem in Cork City. They could easily build a greenway from Inniscarra all the way down to Crosshaven, most of the greenway is there already, they just need to connect the bits, missing pieces and as you said connect to junctions. It wouldn't take that long to connect up all the missing bits and hey presto you have a 40-50km long greenway, that would connect a massive population 200k. But no, that would take ambition and vision from the council.

A positive bit of news this morning on cycling, Gardener St, Dodder Greenway, NCR and 2 BusConnects schemes to get underway. Separately something will also be done to extend the clontarf scheme to the quays. All told there may be 3 or 4kms of quality cycle route delivered this year, still progressing at a glacial pace but welcome none the less.

Cycle lanes, a new harbour and College Green goes bus-free – the big changes happening in Dublin this year | Irish Independent

WWe'll Have to wait for ringsend scheme as part of busconnects to fill in the gap i think.

And seperately theres the proposed Port Access bridge just *east* of Tom Clarke Bridge that will have pedestrian & cycle (and potentially luas provisions) as well! This will link back into the new junction of the Tom Clarke Bridge and Dodder PT Bridge (and the pedestrian bridge you mentioned).

Are the propsed bridges from blood stoney road or forbes street still stuck in dispute?