Swords main street pedestrianization

What do people with disabilities do ? there are healthcare businesses including a doctor and physiotherapist in the area potentially ‘zoned’ for pedestrianisation.

what do couriers do, attempting to make deliveries to the various businesses ? ask a courier delivering to anywhere on Grafton St what a gigantic nightmare it is and how unsafe it is for themselves and pedestrians with them attempting to negotiate crowds with a pallet truck, and boxes or a pallet… or hand trolley..

what would the Gardai do if they have to send a car to an emergency ? A detour and extra time to get to the incident.

The surrounding arterial routes are busy enough trying to serve access to the street… castle, county council and the hundreds of shops, with little to no safe opportunities to allow people be dropped to make their own way… push more cars onto those streets ? It’s unavoidable with pedestrianisation…

public transport…. Buses and taxis… there are in excess of 9 bus routes which use main st… where do they go ? ohhh year, let’s have them clog up smaller more arterial roads….

Right, so FedEx, UPS, DHL, fast way and a host of other delivery companies will just start making deliveries at night ( they don’t deliver at night ) and all those businesses receiving goods and their staff will be cool with that ?

emergency vehicles won’t retain access or certainly safe access. Getting to an emergency while creating another one, jeeez.

just go around ? Erm you haven’t thought this out.

go around ? No.

Deliveries to businesses on Main Street can be made from the rear, I'd say that is the case for most already. That won't stop some from using it as an excuse, always looks better to pretend to be concerned about somebody else when you are really only concerned about yourself.

The only reasonable impediment to pedestrianisation is bus routes. Bus access should be retained, prioritising buses will also allow for the removal of cars as people will have a genuine alternative. The first step should be removal of all parking spaces on Main Street and having bus only access. Full pedestrianisation may be possible later but going for it straight away would likely result in nothing happening.

so delivery agents / couriers should be forced to change to have their flights arrive earlier to suit the pedestrianisation of Swords ? Staff arrive earlier to sort, unload, drive ? Irish customs staff come in early to arrange inspections ?

madness is to think an emergency vehicle proceeding at a required efficiency.. would be recommend by you to mix with pedestrianised routes :)

We probably have.. planning is and has been a disaster for decades..

they wouldn’t have a particular difficulty but some people might have difficulty getting out of their way… a risk assessment would be interesting viewing.

So do you think no areas should be pedestrianised because some people are disabled?

I’ve outlined as clear as day the problems with pedestrianisation of the street… i never articulated that what you are saying…that is just disingenuous of you…I think a main street that doesn’t require pedestrianisation and isn’t suited to it and that as said has healthcare facilities and various other essential services as well as multiple bus routes that are not suitable to be rerouted …so no it shouldn’t be pedestrianised

Have you any experience of the side roads and understand their non ability to accommodate the 11 or 12 bus routes that go through Swords ? Plus …Numerous taxis, private cars… all of which several hundred in not over a thousand an hour pass in each direction…church road, brackenstown road … look them up on google maps and tell me if you believe they can… either way, they cannot… it would be dangerous, ineffective, inefficient and a waste of time…

people require cars to transport themselves, shopping, families, it’s not like that’s a new concept.