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

Here you go. Take a read and I'm sure you'll find all the answers you're looking for.

Firstly the ban on selling petrol and diesel cars starts in 2030, and we are no where near the targets on new car EV sales. Electric cars are often charged overnight from wind and are a good option. Electric busses are far better, carry more people without the parking need.

Firstly I would encourage everyone to try base you life around not commuting, as in make job and home choices around not commuting such as working from home or living close to work. Not easily done, but if buying a house consider do you want to spend 2 hours a day for 40 years commuting with possible increased taxes.

Work from home is a big part of the solution. One stick is to make going to office by car expensive.

Public transport and taxis really are not working today, I don't get bus regularly and when I do there is no shows, busses full, busses late, no bus option to where I want to go. There is a massive shortage of bus drivers and taxi drivers. People don't want to work shift in stressful jobs and are leaving the industry.

Congestion charges will come eventually, very expensive parking in city centres is already a reality and I will try get the bus when I can, or car share etc.

However there needs to be a place for a car, unless we flood the cities with taxis. Things like weekly food shop, bringing babies to creche, bringing kids to school where you then go on to work by car etc. Lots of jobs are in areas with no busses such as many industrial estates.

I moved closer to work to avoid tolls, fuel costs, car maintenance and time wasted commuting. Not possible for everyone but my quality of life has improved and my costs have reduced.

FFS did you not read what I gave you? 🙄 Try again.

So you're basically getting outraged about a series of proposals in a document but you refuse to read the document it relates to while remaining outraged about said document. Clearly you're not a serious poster. Keep up the good work. 🤣

Do you want me to put up my finances. The fact is I could not afford the prices at the time when I was buying. The fact is life moves on you have kids who get settled the fact is finding a school place where your kids will be accepted and can walk to the school is now a near lottery or maybe you would be happy if I drove them to school every morning which doesn't fit in the greeny agenda. The fact is that prices in Dublin as apposed to where I am now has a higher differential between the 2 areas from when I bought. If people work in Dublin they have the right to drive there if there is no valid alternatives. So please don't tell me what I could or could not afford. Dublin is a very expensive city to buy or rent in and the number of properties available is at a shockingly low level. Maybe my family and I could move into a 1 bed apartment with another family ye know for the good of the planet. <Snip>

Is there any chance you could stop the strawmen? Making things up with "so are you now saying...." is very dishonest posting. 🙄

I think you'll find most of the population lives outside Dublin. You need to climb out of that hole you're in and wake the fk up. If any of these lunatic proposals they keep coming up with came to light the country would come to a standstill in the morning.

"If I cycle in a bus lane, it is because I am legally allowed to do so".

That you cannot see the shocking double standard displayed by your own behaviour when you accuse others of "entitlement" beggars belief - perhaps the clapping seals in the Cycling forum might hoot in support, but everyone else reads the sentence above and knows exactly what you are - and "entitled" is certainly one of the descriptors. I am referring to multiple videos showing that you choose to delay hundreds of people using public transport rather than use the cycle facilities provided at no doubt considerable expense alongside - simply because you are "legally allowed to do so".

Remember folks, read the various fora here and these same few guys (and they are all angry middle aged men) are the majority cheerleaders for what are claimed to be improvements in public transport and active travel. They have no interest in public transport - in fact they detest the people that use it ("Can't afford to live a short cycle from work? LOL, fock you guys!") and go out of their way to delay public transport users because they're entitled to do so because - or so they claim - the facilities that they've been provided with are "not good enough". Funny, they never seem to be good enough. One particularly obnoxious cycling Youtuber here in Cork who seems to get into altercations daily has even said he doesn't use cycle lanes because rabbits might run out of the ditch - those damn rabbits eh? It's why the BusConnects plan (in Cork at least) literally features more cycle lanes than bus lanes, despite the name. It's also why some of the new 'active travel' developments here in Cork corral pedestrians (who comprise about ten times the modal share of cyclists) into a fraction of the space reserved for cyclists at the same location (who, of course, rarely use it anyway). I've even seen a diagram of road user hierarchy produced which, through some extreme perversion of logic, positions cyclists as the 'top of the food chain' of road users, even more so than pedestrians.

Anyone who is not one of the tiny number for whom private transport by bicycle is a viable option should beware most of these 'improvements' - because they are ultimately not designed to improve your experience.

You said it rains 70% of the time in Ireland. That alone means you're not serious.

You do realise that the Greens are a minority party in Government. You may throw an equal or more blame at FF and FG. They must be delighted that the Greens are being blamed for everything.