New bus gates on Bachelors Walk and Aston Quay

Maybe the plan is to block everything and cause chaos. Thus proving that the original plan was a good one after all.

Or maybe it's purely pandering to certain lobbyists. Or….. oh I just don't know anymore.

I know this is entirely predictable in this backwards country, but it is still so disheartening to see DCC back down so easily to shitey vested interests and a clueless junior minister. All the vested interests and the minister (who's from Clondalkin, one of the areas with awful bus travel times) should be forced to take one of the quays using routes like the C1, G1, 69 etc at peak times and see how long it takes a bus to crawl from OCB to Heuston Station for themselves. If they still claim with a straight face that such journey time is acceptable, I would be very surprised.

Also, how the hell does anyone think a metro will ever be built if we can't even give relatively simple public transport priority measures a fair shake? will be objection after objection to anything/anyone that dares slightly discommode the precious car driver and a useless fudge of a compromise the end result. As has happened time & again with this interminable busconnects craic.

Depressing.

Think Higgins is just front for bigger fg voices looking for car lobby vote. Appears dcc fg cllrs are taking the party line asking for more time. Others incld SF/ SD/ Greens are telling her to take a hike.

I'm a touch less pessimistic after reading about these changes, although they still shouldn't pass — cars can't continue from Bachelors Walk onto Eden Quay, and I think the traffic coming down this way and intentionally turning left onto OCS is really minimal, so this will continue to be an ersatz bus gate.

However the fact that cars can turn right from OC Bridge onto Eden Quay does mean enforcement will be much more difficult, as the temptation to 'sneak' across from Bachelors Walk to Eden Quay will be very high.

Making the restrictions 7am to 7pm is whatever, but as we know it'll just eventually have to be 24/7 again.

You've got this backwards; it is inter city traffic that is being blocked by local Dublin traffic.

In fairness the media and social media seem to be aligning themselves against the car parks on this one.

https://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/07/02/fine-gael-opposition-to-dublins-transport-plan-is-alarming/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR2hfMKxzXkEBf4cey-qCCNSBBlxfuGsbzhD6lOHfFspqV2uINoHMpyvLvk_aem_4J9EJ0Gp7S0ZB68zjywm5A

so like nothing has changed has it? still going ahead with the original plan as far as we know?

That’s exactly what I said! Congestion on the M50 is caused by Dublin traffic. Building another motorway for the small amount of inter-city traffic is a waste (based on volumes) and would need to be built a long way from Dublin to avoid the road just becoming a second M50 for people living in/near Dublin.

Claire Byrne will have some anti bus gate lobby group on now.

Hopefully they'll be seen for what they are and the full plan will be put in place.

The Dublin traders association is a front for the car parks, they aren't actually retail businesses.

**** unbelievable. I give up. But I never thought it could actually happen anyway deep down.

Is it a leak it and see how angry people get situation ?

FG seem to love those.

As I have posted above, the CEO of DCC has yet to make the final decision, which is his to make alone.

The latest (watered down) plans are the result of the conversations with the disability groups who seemingly expressed concerns about access to certain locations.

The CEO has also said that he wants to look at the economic data from the retailer groups before he makes a final decision on the timing, which may not happen for several weeks yet.

So we just have to wait and see.