S2S Cycleway - northside

This has gone on an awful tangent

They should just put a toll on it, for anyone who wants to use it - with the toll going towards maintenance and repairs.

Residents get a free pass, every other motorist pays.

That would quickly reduce the amount of unnecessary traffic going down onto the Beach.

Great idea. Same on the Causeway please. The Causeway was absolute bliss when the barriers were put across the entrance at the start of the pandemic. Old, young, families, cyclists, joggers, walkers making great use of the traffic free zone.

Yup, I'd agree with all of that.

Summer time is a disaster, given the golfers and the beach goers. All are perfectly entitled to be there, but of more of them even used the causeway, rather than the wooden bridge, it would help a little.

Like you, I know the area well, and can think of plenty of locals who have always driven to the beach, and think they always should. That's the mindset that we need to change, so charging them a couple of quid a go, might be part of the solution.

As for DCC - they are the absolute pits, between trying to sneak though the rezoning of part of St Anne's Park, wanting to build a big tall building down at the Bird Sanctuary on the beach, or Owen Keegan wanting to blow €27m on White Water Rafting - all while the important things like quality bike lanes, better traffic management systems, social housing, more bins etc. all get pushed down the priority list.