Cycle infrastructure planned for south Dublin

At least the judge will be keeping dangerous (!) characters off the street…

They should ride first to the Department of Transport and then to the Civic Offices. That's where the blame for this mess lies.

The Judge only made a legal ruling on the crap conduct of the Authorities.

At least the judge considered some of the consequences. That is more than Owen Keegan has done.

I'm glad someone has.

That's totally and utterly the wrong logic.

It was by attempting to side step quite obvious planning thresholds that ended them up in Court in the first place.

I don't know why you think NIMBYs are to blame here ahead of an incompetent City Council. What would your view be if the same Council was attempting to circumvent legislation to railroad a measure through on your doorstep, say a drainage scheme or a housing project?

That's not accurate, Trudee. People always fear the increase in traffic due to a cycle lane but it doesn't happen. Even in Paris, where the entire run of the lower quays along the Seine was made into gardens, cycleways and walkways (the quays have a roadway above and another below beside the river), there was a tiny, tiny increase. When a protected cycleway is built separated from other traffic, people use it, and get out of their cars to use it. So a lot of people who would be driving now cycle.

And seriously, if the people of Sandymount really envisaged trucks rat-running through their suburb, the obvious thing to do would be to go to the council and request strategically placed bollards at one end of streets, so it would be possible to drive in and drive out, but not to drive through. This would make rat-running impossible.

Delighted with that judgement. This should put a halt to other schemes to take away road space.

What I particularly like about the judgement is that the very group that stopped the construction of 1000 homes on the northside of Dublin in the courts in a housing crisis have themselves now been stuffed on technicalities.

What goes around, come around

You can have no complaints at all.

If you're going to stick your ideological oar in and stop housing in one of the most deprived communities in the country than you have zero sympathy. That was a gross miscalculation to do something like that.

Now you see the swing of that. We can all go to court.

Page 14 of above judgement and also attached full traffic analysis from DCC website so you can take it up with NTA/DCC if you find their results 'odd'

Leaving aside accusations of empire building in some of our local authorities, the sooner greater Dublin has a directly elected Mayor with executive powers, the better for the strategic direction of this City.

Some of the responses are so absurd on Twitter talking about the "climate emergency" and how we are all doomed. Crazy stuff.

If you want to lobby for cycle lanes by all means but when people don't want them in their area you need to just accept it and move on or put them somewhere else.

What the larger area really needs in my view is the long delayed M50 Eastern Bypass motorway.

Good day for the residents and local democracy.👍

Quite right, but unlike career public servants who have these 7 year terms without any recourse to public judgement, any elected Mayor will have a party group or coalition of parties on the Council behind him or her and will be up for election every 5 years, so the political impetus will be greater.

It's something new, will be interesting to see how it goes in Limerick first and I've no doubt that's the idea them having it before the capital.