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

This can’t be introduced unless they can show us there is function bus service. By then it would probably become un necessary.

London has charge but it also has much better public transport than Dublin.

Back in the 90’s I lived in Rathmines worked in Dun Laoghaire. The 46A was my best option, except in September when UDC came back I ended up sharing taxies to work because the bus would shoot by.  – I bought a car.

I can now get a bus easily to work but because I get of just at the edge of the city I can’t reliability  get one home. They’ll be full and shoot past.

If we all started using the bus/dart/lusa the system simply wouldn’t cope it can’t carry that many people all at the one time.  We also have the problem of Ghost busses, that never show up.

If they ever fix the bus service then you’ll find younger people postpone getting a card, and car owners will start to use the bus more. The notion of a stick to beat car owners with isn’t going to achieve anything. They’ll still dive just park at the edge of the congestion zone and block up the streets. 

Another way of phrasing it but not an accurate one. The 1mln EV Target was contained in the 2021 Climate Action Plan which was published in November 2021. Eamonn Ryan was the relevant Minister then and he had been for almost 18 months having been appointed to the role in June 2020. If he inherited the target or didn't like it, he had plenty of time to get rid of it. He didn't.

So many people are saying that the busses disappear from the app or the street signs see comments on this article https://www.thejournal.ie/dublin-bus-apology-service-disruption-5944442-Dec2022/

When I go to get the bus home, cars aren't making them drive past my stop its because the bus is full.

Right now it's not cars that are making busses sh1t it's Bus Companies.

No I'd think we will all stop using cars but in my case I bought a car earlier that I would have because the bus kept letting me down. If you public transport better younger people will put of getting a car for few more years. Mostly until they have kids. And families might do with one car instead of two. All helps. Using charges as tool isn't going to help when there are no alternatives.

What your not getting is the vast majority of people driving into Dublin from outside of Dublin have no other alternatives. To drive these days costs an awful lot of money just look at petrol prices going up 4 fold did we see less cars going into Dublin?? Ans = No we didn't so adding another charge will not make a blind bit of difference. So its just going to be an additional tax on people having to work from outside Dublin. Like I also said until the 5 big CO2 emitting countries enter the conversation about cutting back then we can really have a conversation about CO2 up until that all of our drivers could get out and walk for ever more and we will be just fart of progress in the hurricane of emissions. So the crisis your on about we will have absolutely zero impact. But this charge will punish those working who are already at the pin of the collar with regards to high costs. So why are we penalizing workers who cannot afford to pay the rent or to buy in Dublin or those who would live in Dublin but for the fact that there is an absolute vacuum of houses to buy and rent for them to live in or workers who have no valid public transports alternatives but to drive. While I have my own specific circumstances I am sure every single person in the country has had to deal with inflation, an increase in energy prices, an increase in house prices, an increase in petrol/deisel, a deficit of housing for rent and to buy and a sh1tshow of a public transport network but don't let any of that change your green tinted narrative.

You're right.. even if Ireland moved back to a full lockdown level of motor vehicle usage it's still not enough to hit the targets...

All these extra carbon taxes some people on here are salivating over, the only people they will affect are the "working poor" those who get up each morning to get themselves to work and their families to schools etc. from housing estates built outside the city that may or may not have access to expensive and inefficient public transport..

It's interesting to see that while our old folks are getting €1000 energy bills and food inflation is 16.3% due to the costs of growing and transporting food, you still have calls for more taxes, and from what I see on here it's from the more able-bodied well off middle class types..

What do the people who can't walk or who don't have a bicycle do to get around?

Well if they're an elderly person for instance they will have their son/daughter drive them around...

Loads of people are also using cars to travel from dublin around the country, and to travel from the country to dublin.

Open your eyes and look at all the major arteries into dublin M1, N2, M3, M4 M7,M11 all chock a block at peak times.

Are these people supposed to cycle?

Great post- and this is what the green acolytes fail to see.

No one in their right mind (or anyone with a bit of common sense I suppose) will get themselves into massive debt to save a few Bob on their heating or transport bills -it doesn’t make financial sense.