Dun Laoghaire Traffic & Commuting Chat

Amazing how you can do 4 hours walking around DTC. But the last 20 kill you.

simple solution is to spend 3 hr 40 mins in future in DTC

Could you not have got a taxi??

It's funny how 'we don't all have apps' but you've no bother managing to post on Boards! Let's be honest here, you didn't bother your arse checking out details of the new bus route, and now it is EVERYBODY ELSE's fault that you had to 'traipse around'. All the route information is freely available on several sites, or you could just have asked the bus driver when you were getting off. But it's all someone else's fault, apparently.

Please stop lying about these bus stops being 'too far from the centre'. I showed you yesterday that the L25 bus stops directly outside the shopping centre, just a few metres from the pedestrian exit from the 2M car park. And there's other stops further down the bypass, if you want to get out that way.

'Main St' is just a name. The bus goes where suits most people. Do you research beforehand next time.

If you want to add a leg to your journey, you can go northbound before you go southbound. Or you could take one of the pedestrian exits onto the bypass, and pick up your southbound bus there, to save yourself some traipsing time, but it's your choice really.

It's bizarre how you came from DTC to get your bus, and you expect bus routes to be moved to Main St, because you didn't know about the route running along the bypass, adjacent to DTC.

Running red lights is a major issue now. I see it often, even at pedestrian crossings.

So the more fines and cameras they get out there, the better!

Why should there always be stop across the road just because you say so? The existence of bus stops on one way streets has been around for some time, the one way section of Nassau St has 4 bus stops that serve at least 12 different routes for at least the last 20 years and everyone seems to get on fine with it.

The village is still being used as a rat-run ... 70% of cars are not stopping.

The developer owns one side of the street..empty shop.. any tenants are on short leases, landlord will not spend a penny on maintenance to the buildings.

The council did a traffic survey, over a few days, and this was the finding.

No, the Ballinteer road junction is preserved.

I have missed your little stories 🤣🤣

Hate to reach back into the annals of time, but as far as I can work out the light sequence at the top of Newtown Park (Whites Cross at the N11) have been modified to extend the sequence when traversing to Leopardstown Rd. I cant say whether the same apples to the junction in the opposite direction.

Are you going to keep on lying?

There ARE several bus stops located nearby to the shopping centre, directly outside in, in fact.

There IS a bus stop on the Main St, the L25 terminus is on the Main St.

There is MORE parking on the Main St now than there was with the two way traffic, two more spaces to be precise.

Your claims don't stand up.

Change the tone please. You need to be more accepting of the views and difficulties and challenges of others. What may seem like a hop-skip-and-jump to spritely old-you may be a considerable task for someone less well able.

For the fourth time, the L25 terminus is ON the Main St.

Funny how you change the subject every time your lies are exposed.

Unlike most of Europe, there are virtually no seaside cafes in Dun Laoghaire - if you're in French towns by the sea, they're thronged with excellent seafood cafes.

I think you need your own thread so that we can focus on what's not on your mind.

Agreed.

All the villages that have been made one way to traffic are much more pleasant to visit and sit out in.

The street furniture is a great thing and its more enjoyable to use when cars arent constantly whizzing up and down in front of you.

Oh no, it's a

Probably more dangerous. Young kids, old people, hard of hearing etc running out of Penney’s. Not expecting traffic getting hit by a bus.

also greatly takes away of the benefits of a pedestrian’ area. No buakers, stalls on the street etv

it’d be like that market in Asia with the train going through it

in summary. It would be half arsed and no good

Yes, it would.

You would be removing public transport service from one of the busiest bus stops in the heart of the town, that serves the Bloomfields centre and St Michael's Hospital, which itself provides acute inpatient and outpatients services for diseases most prevalent in the geriatric cohort, and add a walk of between 300 and 500 metres for those service users to access the public transport that they currently do.

Some of you, above, are trying to make a case for hazards that would be no different to what has existed on that street for the last 23 years, and for which the streetscape was specifically designed and independently safety audited.

In point of fact, reducing traffic to public transport and deliveries only, will reduce the frequency of passing vehicles considerably.

And if its buskers and stalls you want, you have a sun-drenched, brand new, multi-million Euro square there for the purpose.

If I may draw your attention to the County Council's own bumf on the project, its so glowing that they're practically talking themselves out of their own Living Streets expansion!

But it boils down to this, if the push to take the buses off George's Street persists, there is no project to save. Its gone, undone by a vote of the Council members which will be approximately 3:1 against.

No Ted, I did not.

Correct me if I'm wrong but access to St Michaels, for the aged and infirm is constantly brought up as a reason not to pedestrianise Lr. Georges st? The additional distance of 300m from the nearest bus stop seems to be the deal breaker for many on this thread and the reason why the initiative should be scrapped?

It's my understanding that the street outside the hospital is not to be pedestrianised and if the additional distance proves to be too much for the aged, infirm and disabled, could St Michaels simply do away with parking in front of the hospital and allow buses to turn there? Problem solved??

Simples?????