If you were minister for transport.

Alan_007_

mikeecho wrote: »

Stick to the bar stool.. , and don't eat the peanuts

What about an aul packeta crips?

Or Maureen's fry?

soups05

installation of spike strips at every traffic light which instantly rise from the ground on the red light
make it totally legal to damage the car of anyone parked in a disabled spot without a badge
if you hit a person crossing the street within say 10 feet of a crossing/traffic lights then they pay you for the damage.
all cars to have mandatory dash cams, (with interesting footage posted in this forum of course)
if someone brake checks you,you would be allowed to smash them off the road.
tax and insurance added to cost of fuel, so everyone has to pay not just some of us idiots. (see garda twitter thread for details).
scrp nct and replace with mandatory car service twice a year. garage fined if dangerous car allowed on road, driver fined,jailed and banned for not servicing. (some type of immobiliser fitted that kills car after 6 months and one week)
cameras, cameras everywhere, any messing on roads and the cctv/dash cam footage is used to impose penalties without the need for garda intervention.

basically i would make life hell for anyone not fit to drive ( and pretty uncomfortable for the rest of us too i guess)

Leonard Hofstadter

1) Build the sodding motorway from Cork to Limerick, no ifs or buts
2) Increase speed limits on motorways to 140 km/h
3) Increase speed limits on dual carriageways to between 120 and 140 km/h (120 for older style ones like the Limerick-Shannon road, 140 for the ones that are 'motorway standard', such as the N1 from Dundalk to the NI border)
4) Variable speed limits for the busiest motorways, such as the M50 (they actually make journey times quicker, as anyone who is familiar with queueing theory knows)
5) No speed cameras unless the road is a proven accident black spot - so none on motorways or dual carriageways for example, and obviously there should be speed cameras outside schools, I've never had an issue with a sensible attitude to speed enforcement not the dogmatic 'you're a murderer on wheels attitude we have at present'
6) 3 points and a €100 fine for middle lane hoggers, lots and lots of cameras to enforce this
7) Build a rail link to Dublin Airport, a disgrace in this day and age that Dublin Airport is so poorly served by public transport
8) Construct park and ride sites just of the main approach roads to all the main cities, they do this right across the UK and I can't understand why we don't do the same thing here - there is no fun to be had bringing a car right into city centre traffic for a start and it would make cities easier to get into and out of. Going into Cork there should be one near the Dunkettle interchange and the Blackpool bypass for starters (we already have Black Ash to cover people heading into the city from Kerry, the airport etc).
9) If 8) has been achieved, more bus lanes, I've no issue with encouraging more sustainable transport for commuting into the main cities once it's easy and convenient for car owners to make a switch
10) Privatise Bus Eireann and all of CIE, the recent disgraceful actions by BÉ drivers show it's high time we got the CIE noose off our necks, then we might actually have half decent public transport

Chuchote

I don't think I'd be out with the whip as much as some posters would like; as the traditional grandmotherly saying has it, you'll catch more flies with honey than vinegar.

I'd put tax, basic insurance and first test NCT on the price of fuel, so that those who drive most would pay most, and there would be no dodging, and you could get rid of the giant civil service infrastructure used to produce certs, check them etc and send those people to do other, more vital work.

I'd build and redesign roads so that it's safe for kids to ride their bikes on them. We're a community; we should be minding each other.

DeadHand

Fiskar wrote: »

7. One car per house

So, if two people want to settle down/marry/cohabit one needs to surrender their car?

It's like the civil service ban.

There are enough obstacles for working people who want to start families without heaping this penal law on them.

Elemonator

Simona1986 wrote: »

Restructure Dublin bus ticketing to a flat rate, payable only by leap card, passengers alight at the front door and get off at the back.

This is actually already happening, at least on my route. Whether I want to go all the way to Dublin (at least 100 minutes), or to the next town 8km away, its still €3.30 for an adult single. I can pay a flat fare of €2.40 on the Leap Card or pay more on the card if I ask the driver to charge me the fare to my destination.

quadrifoglio verde wrote: »

Change the penalty point structure for speeding.
No penalty points if less than 10km/h or under the speed limit. 10-20 km/h is 2, 20-40 is 4, 40-60 is 6 and so on.

I believe you already get a 10% leeway if you are over the limit. 12kph if travelling at 120kph etc. Been a while since I looked at those laws though.



My one would be to (re?)introduce Nitelinks on a Thursday in Dublin. There is no way Dublin Bus can claim there is no demand on Thursdays. I go out in Dublin on Thursday and the place is packed, especially with students. The idea of having public transport every 2 hours on a Sunday is not great but I accept it, it would probably be a huge loss maker. Economics supposedly says that public transport is barely viable here as it is.

Chuchote

Zaph wrote: »

So where do you propose someone who lives in a terraced house should park? What about two car families where one car takes up the whole driveway? Or people visiting? This is the most ridiculous suggestion on the whole thread so far.

People would live as they do in Japan, where very few people have private cars, and people basically cycle everywhere or if it's further take public transport. (The public transport is good because the roads aren't clogged with cars.)

Take a look at Google Maps on Japanese cities: no lines of cars taking up both sides of the roads. Roads are for driving.

CiniO wrote: »

You might built cycle lanes absolutely everywhere, but most people still won't cycle due to sh1te weather.
BTW - what's wrong with weed and hookers that you don't want them?

If you think it's bad weather it's because you're in a car most of the time. Copenhagen has double the rail levels Dublin has. I cycle all the time and rarely have to use rain gear. When it's wet, well, I use rain gear!

tcawley29 wrote: »

We have 3 vehicles in my house.

Three of us work in different towns.
(snip)
The joys of rural ireland

Rural Ireland. In relation to cars taking up the roadways, we're discussing the cities, which are clogged with parked cars.