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we should have been building greenways from scratch, and reopening all the rail lines!

I think its the Tramore Road proposal from the city out that's intended?

The Tramore road now is probably busier than the N25. It’s still classed as a regional R road. It’s funding comes from the council not Transport Infrastructure Ireland TII so that explains all the cheap chipping and poor resurfacing works. The road also doesn’t have road marking lighting for night travel. It should be upgraded to a National route and come under the funding of the TII. This route should also be made a Dual Carriageway to future proof the route and safety issues.

From the green road rail bridge to Pickardstown the line is extant except for one entrance that could easily be dugout and bridged. If there is no under passing you essentially are going to have a stop go system on a very busy 80 km road! A recipe for accidents.

yup, this is where we should be looking for our future transport needs, but we wont, the future is the private fossil fueled car!

A nice idea, but anywhere I saw underpasses in England or Europe, they were extremely daunting, especially in winter, in the dark or when lights were out. Not a woman friendly piece of infrastructure.

To throw some maths at it, Summerville roundabout to the ring road is 6.5km, at 80km/h this is about 4:50 (minutes) at 50km/h it's about 7:50. 3 minutes isn't the end of the world and I've very rarely had to do 50. Construction costs for a dual carriageway are upwards of €20m/km (based on a UK figure of £13.5m - you can bet it's higher here) so €120-130m conservatively. The tailbacks are caused by large volumes of traffic arriving at the roundabouts - this was very evident at 6 o'clock last night where there were roadworks at the Tramore end and a tailback to the top of Robin's Hill. A dual carriageway would do nothing to this. And all this is ignoring induced demand.

There are cheaper, faster, and more sustainable ways to do this. The bus service has improved but needs to get better: more frequency, the "next bus" times actually meaning something, needs to be cheaper - even free - and accept contactless payment as we're in the 21st century. More frequent services to the Cork Road via Whitfield (360A), and Ardkeen, have that rubbish TFI "Journey planner" actually function. If people have an easy option that gets them where they need to go cheaply and on time, then they'll use that.

But instead Waterford has Cllr's and a Mayor who waste time talking about a silly bus on a pedestrian bridge that is not cost effective to run and will only benefit a small number of people.

It gets better. Some eejit of a councillor, who's obviously never been in the damn thing, was seriously suggesting the Winterval train on the bridge!

https://www.waterford-news.ie/news/waterford-councillor-calls-for-use-of-winterval-train-as-shuttle-bus-alternative-for-the-north-quays_arid-89229.html

Would disagree on ICE, sales stats are growing with more and more EV's being sold.

While EVs are great, there are a couple of problems. Firstly they'll do nothing about congestion as they take up the same space an ICE vehicle does made worse by the fact everybody still seems to want to drive huge vehicles which in an urban context is somewhat missing the point. Secondly, there's a major barrier to entry for anybody without their own driveway. I live in a terraced house and would have to use public chargers which are much more expensive, which means using solar isn't an option.The same applies to apartment owners. Neither of these are intractable particularly the second, but it would require taking on vested interests

The council should put a central median barrier on certain parts of the Tramore Road. This would put a halt to all the dangerous overtaking