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

That is a nonsense statistic, completely meaningless.

It needs to be corrected for two factors, the overall death rate and the proportion of young people among the population.

Looking at this, and your electrification comment it seems you think of it as either/or.

It doesn't have to be, and I would think it cannot be, a one size fits all solution.

I think we should be moving towards predominantly PT for urban, predominantly electrification for rural.

That's not replacing all conventional engines with electric, I'd guesstimate reducing overall numbers to 30ish% electric.

I would doubt other countries are looking at intensive PT for dispersed rural areas.

Interesting to note Citroen bringing back the Berlingo MPV in both petrol and diesel guises after being discontinued in 2020. They are citing increased demand as the reason. Clearly shows that a lot of families still require reliable, trustworthy transportation.....

One would hope things would have improved in the 20+ years since I lived in Dublin, but it appears not much.

Back then I was two stops from the start of a bus route. On a fine day it worked but if it rained I could have had three or four full busses pass before one had room and stopped to pick up passengers. If more than one bus passed full my bus, walk, dart, bus commute fell apart and I could be an hour late for work.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la meme chose.

On an individual level, unless you live and work close to direct public transport route, it is just too time ineficient to be fit for purpose.

My current commute is 30 to 35 minutes by car or more than three times that by public transport, including the 15 minute drive and walk to get to public transport in the first place.

I'd be half way to work by the time I'd only be starting into an hour and twenty minutes of a public transport journey. The marginal cost of using my car is also less than the cost of public transport.

Not really an SUV, more like a pumped up Primera.

At about €80k the price is a barrier in itself.

Even those are small fry compared to the big six wheel pick ups in the US.

The good old boys would laugh at the idea of a 1.4 litre Nissan being called an SUV.

Plenty of people driving them around as commercials... Crazy when you'd fit more items into a normal Van like a transit:

https://twitter.com/JohnLegge1984/status/1652709409288515590

And the modern versions of the three models you mention are all a lot bigger than the original versions.

The thing is that SUV as a description has lost all meaning.

Partly the fault of the car makers marketing.

Yes if shifting cargo is your thing a Transit is a better bet.

However the driving experience is completely different to a pick up.

Stalker alert - get a life MAGA fanboy

Dublin Bus, Luas, and Go-Ahead have received fines of around €5 million for delays and no-shows.

This friends is public transport in Dublin. For anyone not living here, or not relying on it, it’s shît. The majority of credible travel journalists, writers and commentators absolutely slate the public transport system in Dublin… yet some green minded individuals want us to rely on it almost exclusively and certainly excessively….

unreliable, un-integrated, uncomfortable, inefficient and downright slow and expensive.

population is savagely exploding, will continue to 🫣 and tens of thousands more people per year will rely on a public transport system not in place for the needs and size of the city/county and it’s population, both in terms of population and land size / footprint which is for the county something like 922 km squared. Many of whom will need to access the city for work and other reasons….

a 10 euro charge won’t deter anyone. Just piss them off and hit their quality of life and that of their families. Pathetic from the greens, so out of touch with the realities of life in Dublin… they give not two fûcks though.