Potential for €10 congestion charge, parking increases of 400% and a 20kmh reduction in speed limits

No I like a lot of other workers pay more than enough in taxes as it is and when you look at what you get in return a p1ss poor service in a lot of areas there should be no more money going into the government black hole which is the annual government spend, the government need to spend it more carefully (this have been an issue for the guts of the last 2 decades) and its getting to a point if you fart in this country you get taxed. We have had record levels of tax take in the country last year and they are blowing it on things like Junkets to Hong Kong for a Minister Ryan to do exactly what, prove that he is the exception to the carbon emission rule?? Sure they are fecking up the road network in a lot of areas for the cycle lanes so what is the difference. If anything the disruption may force people out of their cars as traffic will get worse (is that not the green agenda??) So your not giving a valid argument give people the Tube equivalent then work away with congestion charges.

Then how else am I supposed to get to work in Dublin city center from Meath without being penalized over someone who can get in using other means than a car? The answer is I cant and if a charge comes in I will just have to pay it so it will change absolutely zero for me and zero for congestion. No public transport for me to get in there either.

I thought this was the Congestion charge/parking increase charge thread no?

why did you choose to live in meath if it meant you had to drive all that way to work every day? surely you're saving a fortune not paying dublin prices anyway?

Great then give us the alternative, its not rocket science.

Bollocks. I'm sure you could have afforded somewhere in Coolock or Finglas or another cheap area if you wanted, many of us moved to these areas and didn't get to buy in the parts of Dublin we grew up in. Instead you lot decide to live in the middle of nowhere and then moan when Dubliners don't want their city choked with people driving in and parking from all over because they wanted a big one off house away from the affordable areas of Dublin.

Similar enough to public transport then.

As a nation we got away with poor public transport because of low population growth/density and a **** economy for decades, off the back of a decent starting point. Cities were small enough that the car trip was always manageable when disruption and a fiver less in the pocket was part of the political calculation. There have never been decent votes for public infrastructure investment in Ireland.

People need to drive because the public transport isn't good enough, but disrupting commuters to deliver public transport isn't acceptable. Rinse and repeat. Climate action plan has thrown a spanner in the works, we might actually have to make some harder decisions as a society; paralysis seems the most likely outcome.

I can see the benefit of reducing the number of cars commuting into Dublin but I'm not sure that a congestion charge is the answer due to the lack of suitable alternative public transport..

Some of the arguments in favour of such a charge cite the examples of London and Paris.

The London Underground opened in 1863 and has 272 stations.

The Paris Metro opened in 1900 and has 308 stations.

How is that any of your business? Even if you do find a house within the range, is he/she not entitled to their own opinion on where they want to live?

A lot of people don’t have a choice but to drive into city particularly when under time pressure. Trying to get into city on time from some towns even relatively near is very frustrating and at times not even possible as delays with bus or them not showing up.

That isn’t even the hard part - trying to get home on time during rush hour at times is difficult as some routes don’t have capacity and buses pass by.

Can we not just send Eamon Ryan to Australia as the Irish representative for Saint Patrick’s day and tell him that he can lead by example and needs to take the a slow boat there and back