New bus gates on Bachelors Walk and Aston Quay

I suppose the only way to do it right is a total ban from 7 to 7, not a half arsed implementation.

Realistically what business in that zone needs a car, van or truck to have access between those hours?

Goods deliveries can be done from 7pm to 7am, car drivers could use public transport and anything “NEEDING” to access those areas during the 7am -7pm hours should have to apply for and pay through the nose for a permit.

All it needs is a couple of council officials and a guard to pull in any vehicle entering the cordon and hand out on the spot fines.

No, I love all of those big deal projects. I even worked on several of them.

I just wouldn't be rolling the dice on the economic fortunes of this City, before the rest of those chess pieces are in place.

I wouldn't restrict a single further private car, until Luas Finglas, Luas Lucan, Dart+ (Maynooth, Drogheda, Hazelhatch) and Metrolink are ALL in place.

Eamon Ryan is being let away with THE WORST PROJECT MANAGEMENT ON HIGH CAPACITY PUBLIC TRANSPORT PROJECTS IN ALL OF EUROPE, so he can threaten local authorities over a few bob for coloured tarmac.

The fact there isn't a single yard of new rail, light or heavy, under construction in this State this very day, is absolutely scandalous. And there hasn't been since the Luas Green Line extension in what, 2017?

We delivered more f***ing sustainable transport projects when the Country was in f***ing bankruptcy than we achieved since. I mean WT Jesus F?

The Galway-Limerick Commuter Line floods for months on end, and nobody gives a shite. Just shrug and leave it to rot. Just one example of the attitude to REAL change and divestment of private cars in Ireland.

Why I despise these poxy little restrictive traffic schemes, is because they are tokenism. They are lip-service. They are unambitious. They are terrible PR on top of terrible PR. How the f*** was the City Council let destroy the environment of Dublin's grand old Georgian districts, with a million dirty, broken, dangerous plastic wands. Etc.

Its a mindset, its a culture and its despicable. You revel in "tiny victories" when you should be deeply depressed

Can we get serious now?

This will be policed like any other road transport initiative before it. A few Gardai will be placed at the affected junctions for a few days in a virtue-signalling photo opportunity. Then it will be back to the usual limp-wristed as-you-were-lads style of enforcement.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

This is classic: I wouldn't restrict a single further private car, until Luas Finglas,
Luas Lucan, Dart+ (Maynooth, Drogheda, Hazelhatch) and Metrolink are ALL
in place.

It's just like saying "We shouldn't improve public transport until public transport improves" 😁

there was a woman interviewed on Claire Byrne show ( hosted by PBH ). She said driving up Burgh Quay a car must turn left into D’Olier Street, then into Westmorland Street. If it want to up the quays SB, they can turn into Fleet Street, then turn right back onto the quays.
Who comes up with this madness?

Cars must turn left onto D’Olier St or right onto O’Connell Bridge off Burgh Quay.

Actually, legally cars can’t do the last turn onto Fleet St and then directly onto the Quays - that left turn off Westmoreland St is for access only, i.e. to access premises or the car park off Fleet Street.

There will always be some people who will try and get around this or ignore it, but despite what some people like to claim here, the vast majority of drivers do obey restrictions such as those at College Green and the same will happen here.

It’s another small step forward.

I’m only repeating what she said - maybe not in her exact words.
I tried to paste a link but cannot. Go to www.rte.ie search Claire Byrne & the Dublin City plan pops up on a podcast. Olivia Kelly is the Woman in question & She is Dublin editor with the Irish Times.
There was also a green on that topic interviewed who said Dublin was thriving. She mustn’t walk down Henry Street so. Plenty of empty stores, & the changes haven’t been implemented yet.

But what nobody was asked on that podcast was: how do they propose the artics from the port get to Guinness’s & visa versa? Surely they’re not suggesting a 15m vehicle does turn into D’olier St, and into Westmorland, and into Fleet Street, to turn right again?

What I still don’t understand: I drive NB on the quays at least twice a week ( I’m a delivery driver ) & am sick n tired of seeing cars use the bus lane. If there’s FA law enforcement on what laws are there now, how do they propose policing these new rules?🙄

I can't stop laughing at that last paragraph!

Or The inclination, if you want to report a crime that isn't very serious e.g. murder, rape, a bank robbery etc. You get met with a stone wall of resistance.

Theft, intimidation, assault might get some effort.

Forget about reporting non serious traffic incidents, vandalism, minor assaults etc. You'll be ignored.

I was once crashed into by an uninsured driver who was allowed by the garda to drive away from the scene. When I spoke to the garda afterwards, I said 'so he's out there driving around without insurance right now?' And he told me to 'chill'.

That's what you're dealing with.

They're not going through College Green? They'd just take a right at College St to Westmoreland St. I think?

Are all current car parks in the city xentre still accessible after the changes?

Which journey to a carpark do people feel will be most impacted by the changes?

In other words, how much of a deterrent are the changes for someone driving into the city to shop/socialise etc.

I did a random google maps check last time this was raised - was much quicker via m50 due to not getting stuck in traffic and polluting the air along the quays

Why would an artic be doing any of that in the first place?

For the record, Fleet St / Temple Bar ain’t suitable full stop for such vehicles.