Dun Laoghaire Traffic & Commuting Chat

Great news indeed.

I listened to the debate most of it yesterday and was genuinely impressed by the quality of the executive and equally stunned by the mad, bad and demented performance of some of the Councillors. It certainly has coloured my voting intentions for the upcoming local elections.

The modal filter for Tivoli road, is that going to be the entire length? Just wondering about access to parking in the IMC Cinema car park which I use quite often, I suppose we go via York Road now instead? (coming from Loughlinstown direction).

Also a pensioner on Mulgrave St is a family friend and I occasionally bring her firewood as she cannot get it delivered there. The traffic is all one way along that road so usually I'd go down via Tivoli Road, Cross avenue seems to be one way too, so how will people get to Mulgrave Street once Tivoli is off limit to cars? Unless walking/Cycling?

I suppose politicians need to have a way of linking an online account to the human. I'd say that was well played by your contacts alright.

"Motions to remove the filter from the scheme were defeated by 24 votes to 14."

Have there been any maps published of the changes to come? None of the news articles covering it seem to have bothered to include one.

Everything should be in the above.

Please stop propagating myths Maisie.

From

"The DfT report, which covers only schemes installed from 2020 onwards, noted that where there had been problems, for example with emergency services, this tended to be when schemes had been rushed through or were new, and the issues tended to ease over time.

While the Met police and one ambulance service reported initial problems, overall “LTNs do not adversely affect response times for emergency vehicles”, the report said."

Here's what ACTUALLY delays emergency vehicles - private cars.

And here's what reduces the needs for ambulance calls - having people who exercise regularly, especially through walking or cycling - less heart attacks, less cancers, less strokes.

I listened to a lot of it as well. What surprised me a bit was the lack of basic knowledge of the scheme amongst some councillors. For example there was a suggested amendment to ban escooters and ebikes from the pedestrian area. This was debated until someone pointed out that as it is pedestrianised and not shared space then this was irrelevant. But it took up some time and went off on tangents about wattage of ebikes ect.

I thought for a while that the amendment to increase parking by 10 spaces in Clarinda Park and do away with some of the public realm might succeed. It was a very tight vote. 20 to 18 I think and one councillor changed her mind to vote against the amendment at the last minute so very close to the Clarinda Park proposals not getting passed at all..

Looking forward to seeing how it all finishes up but I think it is a good plan and like some of the other posters I will be reconsidering who I vote for...

Did anyone get the full story on the HSE issue?

To my mind, that's where a lot of the time was wasted, with the confusion caused.

I have no idea.

I can see both sides of this, good for the locals I suppose, but not so great for the rest of us. Sallynoggin roundabout is pretty much at peak capacity as it is, can only imagine this is going to push more cars coming and going to/from Dalkey and parts of Killiney through it so thats going to be interesting.