Dublin ranked as second worst city in the world for traveling by car

Has there ever been a feasibility study completed on connecting Brides Glen Luas station to Shankill Dart Station?

Its only 1.8km directly, but would mean people accessing the coast from the Green Line wouldnt need to drive and vice versa.

An underground opportunity perhaps?

There's plans to extend the Green Luas line to Bray but can't be done at the moment as the Green Luas is at capacity.

If it was upgraded to Metro, they could do it.

Actual enforcement of the bus lanes and yellow boxes would go some considerable way towards improving the flow.

Cars entering bus lanes illegally when they’re turning left when they’re actually supposed to stay in the main traffic lane until the end of the bus lane are a scourge on the bus service.

The wands installed along Harold’s Cross Road and Rathmines Road towards the canal, and on the Swords Road inbound at Whitehall Church have significantly improved the flow of buses’ movement.

But just look at Conyngham Road inbound approaching Parkgate Street - it’s ridiculous. A massive line of cars all blocking the bus lane.

The 90 minute €2 fare has been very popular I think.

Touch pay by phone or card would be great.

Vienna has an annual ticket of €365 for all public transport eg Metro, Bus, Tram, Commuter rail.

I think that would be a good idea once Busconnects is close to completion as a promotion.

It's about €1000 a year here for just one mode and €1550 for all modes eg Dart, Bus and Luas. €365 for that would be very popular I think.

But availing of the taxsaver scheme, that single mode ticket can come down to EUR 552.

Population of Dublin County is increasing about 18,000 a year (Greater Dublin Area is increasing also) and we can't make the roads any wider, so the only solution in the medium term is walking, cycling and buses.

If they start planning and design of another Metro line once the first one starts construction, then we could in a best case scenario have two Metro lines in 15 years. That's definitely possible. This would take a huge amount of cars and buses off the roads.

I think the O Orbital route will be very handy once it starts. The southside orbital routes have just launched recently. I'd like to see the data on them.

The tap to pay should have been done years ago. It's simple technology.

Would be interesting to see the loading on the Green Line now.

It is obviously jammed at peak hours but outside of that, it is normally busy but ok.

Hopefully they will start running the Luas late on weekends soon, that would be a huge boost for the night time economy, given the lack of taxis in the city centre.

Is there a lack of taxis these days? Family members have gotten taxis on Freenow within a few minutes, including over the busy Xmas period.

Peak times it must be over capacity as people cant get on it.

But yes, outside of those hours there is certainly space. Lots of new homes going live along the route this year though.

I see the usual suspects are out with their usual anti-motorist tirades. For the benefit of those who have never been to Dublin, or who act as though they have no idea what's going on there, I was at the coalface of what passes for public transport in Dublin for the best part of a decade.

Even in the best case scenario, e.g. where you live close to a Luas, DART or Commuter railway station, PT in Dublin is overcrowded like hell at peak times (to basically sardine can levels) and not all that fast. And that's in the best case scenario.

The fact is that just crapping on people for driving instead of using public transport makes no sense given how poor the latter is - even when totally or largely separate from the roads like the railways are.

At an absolute minimum, Dublin now needs everything that is currently planned plus a full metro from Donabate to Bray via Swords, the Airport and the City Centre. Also needed would be the DART Underground and an extensive expansion of the Luas *within* the M50. Also maybe a few hundred thousand new apartment units at sane rent costs.

Then - and only then - would it make sense to start blaming motorists for causing congestion etc. Any claim to the contrary really requires the suspension of disbelief.

dublin is a shot hole end of.

I'm over 90% certain it'll happen.

It's on schedule and budgeted for.

Dublin's got a lot of positives, but certainly it has problems it needs to solve.

One big positive to Dublin is that it has a great, youthful energy. Many cities don't have that.

Door to door, driving beats public transport in Dublin for almost every journey.

Cycling is fastest though.

So if you had to go from Blanch to Stillorgan at peak rush hour, you'd be faster by bus? Door to door.

You could be a 5 or 10 minute walk from the bus stop. Then wait 5 minutes for the bus if you're lucky.

Then get off the bus in Stillorgan. Walk another 5 to 10 minutes to your actual destination.

I got it the night of the riots and it was jam packed, but that may have been cos of the riots.

Well.

That's a good thing so.

The fewer car journeys and more bus journeys, the better.