"Green" policies are destroying this country

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Note the date lads we only have 6 days left.

Why do a Cost Benefit Analysis when there's only massive cost, questionable benefit and no brain power to do analysis. Easier to just spew nonsense at the indoctrinated masses and let them do the hard work. It might as well be Putins bot farms.

I'll get shot for this, and while I don't know your specific examples, I think there is a big problem in this country with how cycle lanes are designed and constructed. They are often not fit for purpose and definitely not designed by cyclists, their design can lead to lack of progress and can put you in more dangerous situations, particularly with pedestrians, so much so that it is often easier and safer to cycle on the road. I think that they are only constructed to satisfy some feel good, environmental box ticking exercise for council officials.

One thing I’ve noticed about the new wide cycle lanes going in near me is the cycle lane tarmac is the same colour as the road and the kerb is higher than the road but a hard to spot (at night time) grey. Couple that with no plastic bollards and there are now loads of car tyre marks up along the kerb due to drivers not being able to see the kerb/ cycle lane at night.

It’s strange they didn’t design them with cats eyes along the kerb at 25m intervals- maybe you can’t use cats eyes in built up areas or something?

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I have a problem with courtesy/enforcement regarding these ‘Sean Kelly wannabes’ they think they own the road.

Drive down the North Quays. These ‘cyclists’ ( not all mind) got their own lane yet they still use the left side of the road causing a bus/coach unable to pass them

Drive up from Terenure Village towards Bushy Park. There is a gap in the wall specially ( afaik ) so cyclists can exit the narrow road, yet they ignore ( again not all ) the sign telling them to exit the road.

I could go on but in fairness this thread is about the bombastic gp, not bicycle lanes-so apologies.

Yeah, it really was so considerate of them going to the bother of typing up a letter saying they had deflated the tyres. I`m sure that made all the difference to those that found their cars unable to be driven to bring them to work or even hospital appointments. I can see it really making all the difference to someone who would have needed their car for an emergency. It`s no more than a mealy mouthed attempt at excusing vandalism.

What next, somebody robs your home or your person and the excuse is "It wasn`t so bad. They didn`t burn the house down and he/she only needed a few stiches, and after all they did go to the bother of typing up a letter saying it wasn`t personal" ?

People jumping through hoops attempting to leesen the degree of criminality based on them leaving a note, or that the tyres were deflated rather than slashed, (as one poster here is doing, who himself would happily inform on neighbours and be happy to see them jailed for not following the letter of the law on turf burning as he sees it), is nothing more than attempting to defend these gurriers.

It does not make it ok. It makes it vandalism.

These fools have no clue what households might have medical appointments or commutes to school or work a distance away. They have no right to interfere with people's property of lives.

And they are absolute cowards too, because they go to quiet affluent suburbs and not to inner city or deprived areas (where there are also SUVs driven) where the chances of them getting their heads kicked in for interfering with a car are significantly greater.

I don't drive an SUV but I did and they came onto my property to mess with it, I'd smack them over the back of the head with a tyre iron and let justice take its course.

But funnily enough, I do have a 40 year old BMW 6-cylinder as a limited mileage classic, which would be far more polluting than a modern diesel SUV like a Skoda Kodiaq, a model I notice they particularly tampered with in Churchtown.

Which also proves they are ignorant dopes and w@nkers.

Any word from the green movement on the Iceland issue ? Green ideology is to reduce indigenous food production making us more reliant on the likes of Iceland to supply our needs with imported rubbish .

Who funds these people who come up with type of nonsense.

Iceland has just 53% self sufficiency in feeding its own population.

There was something else on them becoming suppliers of biomass as far as I recall, that farcilal bookkeeping carbon neutral energy source. If they are looking for willow plants, there are Irish farmers who would be more than happy for the Icelanders to come here and dig up those that have cost Irish farmers millions that they want shot off that were being peddled by greens as a fortune to be made from

You sure You are not a green in the real world? I asked You a direct question & you answer in a roundabout way. Do you condone or condemn these actions? Yes or no?

Also what is the ‘serious social issue’ with regard to the motor taxation? In 2008/9 the then government brought in reduced motor taxes for anyone driving a diesel vehicle. Today an ev has a €120 tax rate which is much lower than a petrol or diesel vehicle. Is that also a ‘serious social issue’?