More Houses less car parking spaces

It's good that they're doing this, since cheap or free parking is a big driver of traffic congestion and we really need all the housing we can get.

However they'll need to get on with some actions to offset the loss of parking - mainly the development of park-and-ride sites and improvement to the bus services (they're pretty good now, but as a W5 user, I can tell you that a bus lane on Parnell St northbound (i.e. towards the Mall) is badly needed.

I take it that apartments will be built. Hopefully they will be properly designed (in terms of space, light, places to store bikes, etc.)

Japan has 120 million people mostly in cities and the rest is mountains.

This has more to do with 15 min cities and living in pods. you wont need public transport because you wont be going anywhere.

You can still travel but its encouraging public transport.

Most new apartment complexes in Dublin dont have many car park spaces. It is the norm now.

That raelity is in Vienna.

Most old apartments in Dublin have no parking too.

...the reality is, most working folks also cant afford housing now, the whole financialised approach to housing has catastrophically failed, and nobody truly knows what to do next about it, theres also no need to attempt to single out lower income/welfare recipients either, failing to meet all peoples needs, significantly increases the likelihood of dysfunctional outcomes including long term mental health issues, addiction problems, and in some cases an increase in criminal outcomes, and this goes for all classes, but those most vulnerable to such outcomes would be lower on the socioeconomic scale....

its a fair point, but again, our whole housing policy has completely collapsed, and the fact, if this approach was implemented, working people 'might' have more resources than non workers, meaning very few, if any welfare recipients would get access at all, we re in desperate need of all types of housing, from social and beyond, we re simply never gonna be able to provide it all, in an acceptable timeframe, its simply not possible, we ultimately need to be building double the amount we have been, we ve needed this for many years now, it never happened. we re destined to have an extremely serious housing crisis well into next decade....

Another reason to avoid new houses

And a rapid rise in cases where people play the mental health card when they stand before the judge when in reality there is nothing at all wrong with them. Its a big problem when they spin a sob story about depression or anxiety or traumatic childhood to avoid personal responsibility.

Nobody murders anyone these days..its all manslaughter. You can even kill your own kid and apparently its not murder. This country ignores victims and their families, its just disgusting.

I didnt mention any local cases. There are hundreds of criminal cases where kids, mothers, fathers, strangers are brutally murdered but they walk away scot free because they are charged with a lesser crime and mental health is used as a factor in sentencing.

You always excuse crime. Its the same old tripe from you every single time a crime is commited..."terrible society, drink and drugs led them to it...they need to be helped not harmed". Do you even know what personal responsibility means? Is that an alien concept to you?

Put it this way, if someone who has 250 previous convictions pulled a knife on you and started laying into you, would your last thoughts be "poor soul..he doesnt mean to kill me im sure, it was his upbringing"?

That isnt nonsense. Show evidence that car spaces are installed at the expense of living space? New houses in estates have less car spaces but they also are not bigger. One offs. There is nothing with wrong cars. They allow far greater mobility. That extends human life. That is a social good.