'It's a disaster': Dublin drivers divided on new traffic rules

New traffic rules in Dublin city came into effect at the end of August and some drivers are now feeling the pinch. Video: Enda O'Dowd

[@cristians7423]

The worst public transport infrastructure in Europe, but we restrict the cars that are a necessity, not a luxury, in this country, terrible decision and incompetent management.

[@GerbenDub]

Car addicted drivers block public transport.

[@rebel4029]

What do you expect from our government? Logic? Ha.

[@carlm6537]

No metro system. No dart underground. Bus connects is a joke. Not a single front garden has been given a cpo to widen the bus corridors. We couldn't run a bath in this kip of a capital. Where's the dedicated public transport police ?. Backward broken filthy Dublin.

[@markilleen4027]

If you can't do good roads you definitely can't do good public transport.

[@dubtinao]

What about disabled ppl who cant stand around waiting for buses or use bikes .they cant use adapted car no more ? Road tax this is real irish

[@PB111627]

The same people who built the bike rack in Leinster house designed this!

[@gearoiddom]

The same people providing the impetus alright. Tail wagging the dog. Most people don’t want either. Fixing things that are not broke is the worst policy.

[@paddyt4043]

Thats only a distraction, we only know about that because they want attention away the recent 36 million sent to the east , and 127 million in " non military "🙄 assistance last year that's 163 million in the same time it took to build that bike rack They are literally burning money

[@carlm6537]

@@PB111627 They couldn't run a bath. We are building the most expensive hospital in the world, shoe horned into the most conjested city in the world. If it wasn't so serious it would be funny

[@PB111627]

@@carlm6537 Also before the James Street site they were trying to build it on the Mater Hospital site and incurred 90 Million euro of non transferable expenses.

[@ExtraterrestrialsareReall]

Everything wrong with Ireland: Public transport infrastructure, Architecture/commercial building/housing, BIKE Sheds for civil servants and of course the immigration problem. The Irish government are wasting Irish tax payers money on sporting events, tourism (because everything is catered for the tourists but not the Irish people. No metro system which was needed 30-40 years ago!!! Banana Republic.

[@JoeKelly-xg1xr]

Very well put , and what an amazing government, all clowns 😢

[@balihai4326]

It's a fcuking paw paw republic. They wouldn't be able organise bananas.

[@javiergutierrez1088]

@@JoeKelly-xg1xr metro system is bullshit. You need more trains, more buses and better roads

[@calibvr]

⁠@@javiergutierrez1088lmfao as if better roads will impact traffic mate the metro has worked time and time again in every city it has been implemented in, even when done very poorly like in new york

[@javiergutierrez1088]

​@@calibvr but is not just traffic you want to move people away from the center. You need better connections with the outskirts. It is far cheaper and you will make housing more affordable in the shorter term

[@stevengriffin7873]

Anything to make life harder and more miserable will be done.

[@gearoiddom]

Seems so. First taxi man fails to realise they are coming for him next.

[@qcsorter4626]

@@gearoiddom How exactly?

[@gearoiddom]

@@qcsorter4626They’ll make a 1km pedestrian zone or something. He is driving a car at the end of the day. The “progress” people hate cars.

[@jmcgonnell]

its not a bug, its the feature.

[@calibvr]

@@gearoiddommate most people drive miserable joke cars like corollas and fiestas, if ireland had actually cool cars itd be fine but we dont so cut it mate

[@aaronhanlon772]

They make a mess of everything.

[@hippy1922]

This has been a great success. The quays are clear and buses are flying into the city

[@aaronhanlon772]

@@hippy1922 Try driving on the roads surrounding it. Completely gridlock every day

[@hippy1922]

@aaronhanlon772 I drive in the city centre every day for work. Yes the roads around it are busier. But hopefully those people who can walk/cycle/take a bus will see that the quays are safer for walking/cycling and quicker for buses so will start changing their mode of transport. And let's not pretend the traffic on those streets was free flowing before these measures were implemented it wasn't. It was still grid lock so no real change there

[@arasf5236]

It's a obvious reason why this stupidity is implemented, to make driving as miserable experience as possible , last time I was in city centre about 3 years ago and no plans to go there anytime soon , its a dangerous dump anyway

[@dawnburke2756]

Same here . A kip & a shambles

[@maurafleming8748]

Totally agree..👍

[@marianwalsh6297]

Dublin is a kip now won't go near it

[@qcsorter4626]

So the plan to keep traffic out of the city centre worked with you?!

[@geroutathat]

@@qcsorter4626 no, because now 60% of traffic isnt visiting the city but passing through it. For example a trip from Sandyford to Ikea in ballymun, instead of a trip to the green or jervis. This plan does nothing to 60% of traffic that spends no money or does not work in the city. It only interupts people who actually want to go to the city. I am in the city as far back as records go with my family, and I am suffering severe isolation at the moment. I only know one person on my road now, the rest are air bnb, students, people who dont talk. Visiting family has gone from a 5 minute car ride through rat runs, to having to cycle and walking hours, after working I dont have the time. I used to see my sister 3 times a week and met her after work a lot. I would pop over to her job on baggot street in the car, pick her up, drive her home, spend some time there. I now see her once every two weeks. I used to cross the liffey and go up the quays daily to visit the park for a walk. It was an hour and a half and would meet people there for the walk. Thats gone, it takes an hour to walk up the quays, then walk around it an hour, then hour walk home? 3 hours for some fresh air? I started to just walk around where I live instead and its really starting to depress me. I have been visiting the same small park over and over and in summer its nice, but its becomes hellish in winter when it gets dark. Its safe but cyclists blind you with their blinking lights. Normal people who use the park in summer avoid it. You get blinded by the lights and have to stand there getting ready for an attack. It should be a relaxing walk and its stressful. I got a bike, and cycle too, and tried to start cycling to the beach, and thought about swimming instead of going to the park. I get shouted at by cyclists all the time. I cant help myself but stop at red lights and they scream at me for it. Lastly, I dont think its the council or govts place to keep traffic out of the city. Instead it should be to accommodate how people want to move around the city themselves. Cars in Dublin dont create that much traffic, like 5%? they are getting cleaner and cleaner, if people want to drive from the park to ringsend, or harrolds cross to jervis, why not put in the parking and allow it. If they want to sit for 15 minutes in warmth with music during that trip... why grab it off them? If people are willing to drive from blackrock to jervis, but not willing to get the dart then walk across the city, why not let them drive?

[@k4poijn73]

I pity the people that have to work in this dump of a city.

[@carlm6537]

Too late for Dublin transport issues. Varadkar when he was minister for transport cancelled the metro for a "cheaper" option. A trained doctor who wouldn't know the price of a full fare into town. Pathetic joke.

[@bradwhite5884]

Yeah, we need more transport route like more railway network, metro service (underground railway network, underground bus route, etc.), more tramlines (love to see the old tramlines back running on Howth tbh for recreational purposes, also more tramlines outside of Dublin like in Galway, Wicklow, Waterford, Cork, Wexford, Limerick, Dundalk, etc.), monorail like service and so on, so yeah

[@nickmullen1666]

To help tourists where will they stay? Most hotels are the illegal migrant free accommodation daaaa

[@oldskoolclassic]

I'm a plumber and I won't be doing anymore jobs around town

[@RedKnight-fn6jr]

Now, that's how to starting changing today's hideous transport policy - boycott and drive up the costs for all the greenies between the canals. Soon enough, they'll be re-upgrading the roads as prices on the shelves start rising due to increased delivery costs and insurance. They might then appreciate the need for proper roads and proper junctions! For me, it's the M50 and not much further in unless I absolutely have to.

[@oldskoolclassic]

@@RedKnight-fn6jr even the m50 g9na a joke , it's busy all day

[@dawnburke2756]

Come down to other cities ,& huge towns , in the country , roads are a disgrace , potholes , cycle lanes are ridiculous , very dangerous on main streets , no room for buses trucks or other heavy vehicles to drive up on any street .... wheres all our taxes going ? On bloody nothing constructive & properly planned . Done with all you Journalists too . Shameful , government mouth pieces

[@arasf5236]

Taxes are going to build golden bike sheeds and nothing left for road maintenance

[@Zer0JusTice-qh8bc]

If the Gardaí have to get involved in the traffic management of this new change, then the plan has failed .

[@balorgalore5629]

Its beginning to feel like the government's main job nowadays is to make life harder for the hardworking irish man and woman,and to tax the life out of them..its becoming increasingly soul destroying

[@MihaiLazar-gd9lt]

DUBLIN NEEDS UNDERGROUND TRANSPORT. FACT.

[@annettereddall8982]

It will take 100 years to complete 😅

[@Jen-lg4hp]

Chinese peasant bikes for thee, private jets for me- welcome to net zero and the "you'll own nothing and be happy" in your 15 minute city hen stall.

[@mattbutler3852]

I am disabled and myself and others like me are not taking into consideration when all these changes are made , I suppose I can get a carrier for my other half’s bike and she can get me around.

[@lynncrf]

Same. I have multiple disabilities and can't stand around in the cold or the rare heat waiting on buses. This new road system has made my life so much harder.

[@OscarOSullivan]

Even if we had a properly functioning underground fully accessible and with heated stations you still wouldn’t take public transport.

[@bravepart]

Forcing traffic off roads that were designed for the main flow of traffic, on to roads that weren't. It's a total mess for emergency services too and is making heaps more pollution and congestion. Literally criminal negligence

[@larrychicco1062]

Really? I commute up the Quay on the way home from work by bus and there are regularly ambulances, fire engines and gardai not only stuck in traffic, but often behind motorists using the bus lane illegally. Much clearer now.

[@geroutathat]

@@larrychicco1062 but they cant get off the quay. Dublin is not just the quay is it? THe quay has a bus lane up the whole lot of it right? so the ambulance and gardai could pop in the bus lane. There is a bit of room for people to move. So outside of peak times cops and fire would fly up the quay. Rip up it. During peak time it was maybe a 5 min trip up it, worst case 10 mins... now? they will rip up the quay like its 1am, then hit traffic that cant move to get off it. So 5 mins up the quay, 10 mins up the side road, has become 2 mins up the quay, 20 mins up the side road. They have also admitted that level crossings on the north side may be shut for 30 minutes out of every hour.

[@liamot]

None of the inner city was designed for traffic. It's just grown there over time and flow bodged together

[@OscarOSullivan]

Anything that makes the quays clearer is good.

[@irishlegend4676]

Hopefully soon we will have a new government and all this madness will end

[@martinlong2804]

You pay your car tax, so you should able to drive through the city. What about the cost of the person having to drive around the city will cost them, time and money also.

[@DK-xc8vp]

None of these changes are good for business or doing business. More and more time spent just trying to get to customers. Cretinous traffic policies that work for cyclists and tourists but destroys the commercial life of the city.

[@CatsandDogz]

It's deliberate they have other plans.for this ROI

[@BabyCowGoingmadinafield]

They need to block it off some how maybe a bike shed in the road?

[@gaiaiulia]

A €330, 000 one, no doubt! 🙄

[@dubtinao]

​@@gaiaiulia dont mention that my bus stop hasnt even got a shelter 😡and that bus connects changing all the time ffs

[@gaiaiulia]

@@dubtinao tell me about it! 🙄

[@Garethk1942]

It's tantamount to theft of public roads. The war on tax paying motorists by the cycle brigade in DCC. Brought to you by Eamonn Ryan and Michael Pigeon and the now thankfully retired Eoin Keegan. Are they going to tax cyclists next for use of these roads because motorists pay motor taxes for the upkeep of the roads. Not my clowns, not my circus.

[@imjasonennis3624]

Motor tax does not exist.

[@Garethk1942]

@imjasonennis3624 The definition of motor tax is a charge applied to motor vehicles in Ireland. It's mandatory for almost all vehicle owners - with the exception of disabled drivers and passengers. This tax contributes to maintaining and improving public roads, helping to ensure a safe and efficient transportation network. I hope this explains and clarifies your flawed statement that motor tax is a very real thing, unfortunately.

[@imjasonennis3624]

@@Garethk1942Road maintenance comes from general taxation. Motor tax (which is really emissions tax) is not ring fenced for roads. Essentially, even if you don’t own a car you are paying for the roads. So everyone is entitled to use them, not just cars. Which are the least efficient transport method available.

[@Garethk1942]

​@@imjasonennis3624Motor tax is a mandatory fee that vehicle owners must pay to legally drive on public roads in Ireland. The revenue collected is used for the maintenance and development of the country's road network.22 Mar 2024

[@imjasonennis3624]

@@Garethk1942 You got that from an insurers website. Motor tax goes into the general taxation fund. We spend more on roads per year than the annual motor tax income. Roads are paid for by all tax payers, not just motorists. So in fact, a cyclist/pedestrian is paying just as much for a road as a motorist. I drive/cycle and take public transport and each one has its own benefits and drawbacks. But to feel entitled to drive into the city centre at the detriment of everyone is incredibly selfish.

[@t3h51d3w1nd3r]

Typical, add 40 mins onto a 5-10 min drive then the same pricks will drone on about car emissions while being chauffeured around in 3, 4 and 5 litre mercs, audis and bmws. The politicians and road authority in this country are an absolute disgrace. Pedestrianising roads, making two way roads one ways, slowing traffic by removing roundabouts and installing traffic lights that have atrocious timing for green lights, mental parking prices then the fools wonder why half the buildings and businesses in town and cities are abandoned. Every time I visit other countries, it highlights just how moronically bad this country is ran, how money is wasted and even simple things end up costing a fortune.

[@AlanDu-js7ch]

Recommendation: Move some non-essential functions from the city center to the suburbs.

[@Tubezilla]

They can't just leave well enough alone. People will just avoid the city. Ghost town with only illegals on the streets

[@malahammer]

oh ffs....drama queen!

[@geroutathat]

@@malahammer its true, i live in the city, have done all my life. You can walk from stephens green now to jervis hearing no Irish accents except when you get to some social housing, or the weird posh dublin accent that isnt an accent. You don't hear cork, kerry, galway accents anymore, you dont hear a mix of Dublin accents.

[@David-xv4nz]

I'm Definitely staying out town going to loses some business them shops

[@grahamluna6935]

They probably plugged the traffic infrastructure into AI.

[@vivig713]

My main concern is how to survive all of these financial and political crisis, especially in light of the US political power scuffle. The government has really called things more difficult for its citizens, and we can't sit back and bear all the consequences of the bad governance.

[@Victory-h9u]

I googled about her and yes, she's won my heart. She just gained herself a new client

[@KennyTony-m2v]

Can I reach her

[@KennyTony-m2v]

please share don't want to remain out Can I reach her ignorance

[@NeliaViola]

Absolutely! I've heard stories of people who started with little to no knowledge but made it out victoriously thanks to Judy Marion Then.

[@Andrew-o7p]

I have made more than 90K God bless Marion Then bless America🇺🇸

[@aodhfinn]

No one was asked 😮

[@MaryOHara-u6k]

Very poor report where mainly taxi drivers and delivery drivers were interviewed. No drivers of private cars interviewed! No report into the impact on city shoppers who need their cars to do big shopping and the potential impact on the Jervis Centre, Arnotts, Marks & Spencers etc. whose future existence depends on the ability of Dublin residents to shop downtown, and not tourists who walk around the city but the big stores wouldn't survive on them as they travel light and buy mostly cheap souvenirs. It badly effects older people who depend on cars to do their weekly shop and whom public transport doesn't serve well for the purpose of large shopping.

[@RedKnight-fn6jr]

Well, when some of those businesses start to close, then things might start to change. Priority for bicycles must end!

[@OscarOSullivan]

You will find car ownership in between the canals is not as high as elsewhere in Ireland as you do not need a car.

[@RedKnight-fn6jr]

@@OscarOSullivan ...and we don't need to go in there mate - thank God for that. There are plenty of highways, shopping malls and large parking lots that us country folk use. The M50 may be bad for congestion, but compared to the city center in the 1980's, don't even go there - people were turning off engines back then when it was actual gridlock. If there were no motorways today along with the nostalgic bike craze reducing an already antiquated 'road system' in the city, Ireland would simply be an economic basket case.

[@blue1901]

S.T.U.P.I.D

[@JonnM]

What’s new. Dublin City council could give a damn about the citizens of Dublin. Once it’s meeting their ideology goals they don’t care. This is no longer a democracy, it’s a bureaucracy, in the service of the bureaucracy.

[@jayuppercase3398]

When the Japanese were builing the underground in London they offered to create one in dublin, as they had the machinary/man power available, but the Irish politicians did not want to deal with the Japanese because they wouldn't do the brown envelope dealings that were traditional in Ireland

[@chrisjames2898]

Dublin has outlived its status as a capital city, in other to protect it as an old city we have to move the capital away and a fresh new capital is required period

[@qcsorter4626]

Where would you build it?

[@RedKnight-fn6jr]

It's simply unfit for purpose now - ditto for Galway!

[@Cullen1983]

Another reason to avoid Dublin City. Complete and utter shit hole

[@philipcoogan9443]

How much more petroleum is used now & how much more pollution

[@desmondquigley220]

They have just moved all the traffic to the side streets and as Michael O’ Leary said on radio on the 4th of September ….. ‘The minister for transport is an idiot’ and sadly he even looks like one🤣😂

[@OscarOSullivan]

You think a pro strike breaking scabber is intelligent.

[@WolfeTone17-98]

This is only the beginning to getting rid of cars in cities. Vote these trash out.

[@OscarOSullivan]

The “trash” are the people who made cities car centric and still do and their supporters.

[@rlupara]

O'Connell Street towards the Rotunda has become extremely congested due to the idiotic traffic lights. Why would anyone want a traffic light installed right in before of the GPO?

[@raygreen5926]

Because of pedestrian flows

[@rlupara]

@@raygreen5926 What does pedestrians to do with trafic conjestion on O'Connell street after 25 of August?

[@geremymac]

Handpicked responses

[@justbrowsing1968]

So how does a Northside resident get to the new children hospital with a sick child,when it is eventually open. Get a bus?

[@arasf5236]

Bicycle or 100euros taxi ride

[@OscarOSullivan]

Yes a bus or a tram just like how it was 80 years ago.

[@niallflynn1833]

Cyclists in charge, zombies in action.

[@christallon184]

It's a joke the lane switch is done so badly not to mention the lights don't sinc up luas constantly blocking road

[@jamiebyrne3416]

A tiny rip off island where litearlly nothing is done well

[@phniox3636]

15 minutes citys 🤬

[@maurafleming8748]

Exactly 💯

[@dawnburke2756]

Public transport , come down to towns villages & other cities .... its shocking i dread the winter months , my daughter has to commute up & down every day to collage from a big town here in co.kildare .... the cost of travel & waiting on buses & trains is shocking .... an absolute disgrace . No proper information on anything . All guess work . I fear for my daughter travelling on her own too , hanging around for hrs waiting on next bus to come . & then shes to run for a train journey .... nothing right about anything in this country . If they want us to drive less well then this shitshow has to end with this government . A disgrace , no accommodation for students , so much for looking after our own . Im lost no words anymore & honestly You Journalists are a disgrace , you never report the truth out there anymore . Done with you all .

[@connoroleary591]

Nothing whatsoever about the health implications on the men who have to drive vans to service the city. It is HUGELY detrimental to cardiovascular health. I bet if the vans were mainly driven by women, the physical and mental implications of dealing with stationary traffic everyday would be taken very seriously.

[@industrialmonk]

This is a sick joke i have to go to Dublin docks twice a month it will add 1 hour in traffic jams with my engine running how is this going to reduce pollution. I have written to Dublin city council & thay have no plans for the traffic to be diverted & told me ( your GPS mapping will divert you). I have tried not using the liffey road in the past & 1 hour is conservative even if I pay the 2 tolls & use the motorway i have also missed the ferry or i have to add 2+ hours to my journey. Also in 5 years i have only seen 4 pedal bikes/e scooters stop for traffic lights or pedestrians thay all just continue as if everyone else is not there.

[@FreudsSlipper]

Oh wow. Someone in Media finally provides a graphic *after the fact.* 🙄How useful!☺️😡 Beyond belief that this is a *planned* method of implementation. Just a willy-nilly feck a few signs here, a few cones there, and plant some poor 'uker with no legal authority in **DULL** "high viz" in the middle of manic traffic on a *dangerously wet road on an overcast day.* What could possibly go wrong. 🤷‍♀️ I mean, seriously, where are the impact resistant barriers with actual literal *physical* bus gates that operate off of AI and Electronic Tag coordinator, opening to allow buses & taxis through, slamming shut to stop private cars getting through!? This is why you can't implement this sort of protocol on a lane by lane basis on an open shared roadway. You have to lock private cars out of the entire road, all the lanes, comoletely, with a fixed barrier. As per usual. *Uninforceable* protocols to change behaviour. And worse - doing the usual during a time of widespread and strangely un-Irish collective, subversive, criminal Oppositional Defiance behaviours.

[@alicemilligan2699]

I'm always amazed that no one points out that you can't carry your shopping on your bicycle. People aren't just driving to get there and back, they are needed to carry stuff. Groceries don't just magically appear in the kitchen. Clothes don't magically appear in the wardrobe. DCC must have an interest in on line shopping.

[@digitalplayland]

It's not important when you travel with a motorcade.

[@freshymno7782]

Not only that, no parking for trades people working on shops, restaurants ect can't put a van in a multi storey car park, can't bring 4x2, plaster board on the bus.....working in Dublin a joke like the people running it thanks

[@Valen-xu2wy]

Only cars get repremanded. I live beside a new cycle way on North Strand. Thousands of cyclists break the new cycle lights every day. Never seen a Garda once.

[@userxyz64]

What's the point of it?

[@jettjones9889]

To make driving as frustrating as possible so you’ll stop.

[@JoeBob79569]

I wonder how many of these people don't even need to be in the city centre, but just want to go from north to south, or east to west, but are forced to go straight through multiple traffic lights? I frequently have this issue in Cork City when I want to go from south to north, but I'm forced to drive right through the city, hitting traffic lights every few seconds, and a trip that should take 10 minutes takes over an hour. What the really need, imo, is a direct road with no traffic lights, from one side of the city to the other. With a few slip roads coming off of it so that nobody ever needs to stop. Then you only have vehicles in the part of the city where they need to be. What they're doing now is only a hodge-podge fix that's just causing more hassle for everyone.

[@qcsorter4626]

You mean something like the M50?

[@DessieTots]

They’re not deliberately breaking the rules. Drivers are either unaware or unfamiliar with that part of Dublin City centre and its new rules.

[@ShakibAhmedMagurmach]

The way to do this would have always been build a workable public transport and then bring in this rule. Idea is okay, implementation is horrible. Huge gap in infra.

[@scryptyc4295]

As a bus driver in Dublin, the restrictions are a hassle. There was always a bus lane, and now thanks to ROAD TAX MONEY, there’s a cycle lane and now, even further restrictions. Tour buses have no where to pick up from and drop off, hotels barely have enough space for cars to pull in and collect friends, families etc. Buses don’t have enough room even for private hire pickups. Dublin City council have all these amazingly poor ideas but from their perspective, they want everyone to come in by bike or bus, that’s not always feasible. DCC are also under the illusion that tourists come and ONLY want to see Dublin. This is not the case, tourists want to see around Ireland so there should be a place for them to be picked up safely and centrally where they can do their day tours from there. College green is another example. If you are on Lord Edward Street, you can’t simply go drop your loved one off at Westmorland street, if it’s lashing rain, you’ve to go down Winetavern (DCC made sure there’s less roads there for road tax payers to use), then you may as well go up by Chancery Lane, onto the backroads of Dublin, up Cathal Bruagh (sorry for the spelling)street, up Gardner street, over the quays, up to D’olier and then Westmorland. DCC again thinking they have the solution. When we apply for planning permission, they demand a months commencement notice, DCC didn’t give us that. But no one stands in their way, they have ruined the city and are proud of it.

[@guswogan2240]

Can they do anything right. 😮

[@RedKnight-fn6jr]

No!

[@Mdxy987]

Ah sure everyone believes what the lrish crimes say...😂😂😂

[@qcsorter4626]

Funny, I haven't seen a single proposed solution to the city centre traffic problem in all the comments I've read. You would imagine that somebody must think that they'd do a better job and would have a clear plan in their head.

[@arasf5236]

For start revert all idiotic changes and set up traffic lights ,so traffic can actually move , that should help

[@StephenTurnerVlogs]

Well, this will go about as well as everything else. I could point to the pedestrian jay walkers too. All the private cars still going over Annesley Bridge into town. Also, the amount of foreign workers interviewed. I'm the one hand people will say they should work when they come here. On the other, when they are all working they're taking Irish jobs.

[@samg1428]

The Greens need to start packing their bags. Irish times and the woke brigade that didn’t hold them to account, including at the end of this piece, should be ashamed of themselves.

[@hilltop521]

Typical crap engineering

[@seanconroy7222]

We need to get the green zealots out of government.

[@praisesun680]

making things better, always happy to see 🙂

[@Dave-Huston-Dublin]

Blue Hair Alphabet People Idealism.

[@waynefitzgerald5391]

Eamon Ryan, is a W⚓️

[@OscarOSullivan]

DCC councillors supported this.

[@silverbullet1960]

The rail link to the airport will be finished in the fullness of time.😂

[@daviddaly861]

Getting to Dublin Port for the Ferry is going to be a nightmare now.

[@keithsheldreck1324]

thats ok cause for the greens cause they can spend over 300 grand on a bike shed havent a clue cant make it up .

[@ginalowe1924]

What is the point....of changing the traffic

[@philipcoogan9443]

We’re are the cars now simple minded taxi drivers

[@DM-dq1mh]

You could always cycle in on the rutted tracks DCC calls ‘“cycle lanes” , maybe at some future point cyclists will get good quality road surfaces and proper infrastructure

[@arasf5236]

Pay for it

[@emreakkas5546]

When will the subway metro come to Dublin?

[@RedKnight-fn6jr]

I think were going to have to consider 3 or 4 new cities (perhaps 100k to 250k) in Ireland - with the cost of upgrading existing centers nowadays, we're probably up to the cost of starting afresh and doing things right - proper rail link through the center with a proper ring road. Traffic would go around an in, but not through - a large pedestrian plaza with ample seating would be required to give a proper sense of place.

[@georgejohnston3094]

What Country is this

[@przemyslawskoczylas5183]

Dublin😂

[@polomaonaigh6307]

Ireland

[@thedudeabides3138]

I'm all for the Gardi getting involved with this initiative. I think they should give a designated percentage of them good all-weather gear and get them out directing the flow of traffic like the do in other major capitals. They work for the State and this initiative is State legislated, so let the State pitch in to the solution rather than have Gardi on "punitive justice" detail. Show the public that you're empathizing with their plight and that by working together we can make a difference. Do I think this will happen? No. But it's a compromise that's worth discussing.

[@davidmcgroarty5907]

what a mess!

[@marky1974]

In the interests of balance are the IT going to pose the same questions to pedestrians and cyclists??

[@Trainsandautomobiles]

Probably to make it safer for all the illegal imergrents doing deliveries on bikes 💪🇮🇪☘️🇬🇧💪

[@thewildgoose7467]

Cars give you freedom and they don't like freedom. Worked all over Dublin for 40+ years and lived in the suburbs. Dublin had character back in the 60's, 70's and 80's but then the corporate multinationals moved in and destroyed it bit by bit, and now it's just a bureaucratic wasteland with no soul governed by woke agendas. I could see the writing on the wall years ago and moved far away from Dublin. The last time I was in Dublin was out of necessity six years ago, and I hope I'll never have to set foot in the place again.

[@illegalcriminal9830]

Much less cars in the 60s, 70s and 80s compared to now.

[@OscarOSullivan]

Also Dublin was a deeply decrepit city back then. Also cars do not give you freedom only mountains of paperwork or none if you are not fit to drive.

[@thewildgoose7467]

@@OscarOSullivan No, Dublin was alive back then, had a soul and was unique. People talked to each other and had the craic. Lots of independent shops where you could spend hours chatting to the owners because they were fans themselves of what they were selling. Everyone wanted to be in a band and you could hardly walk down one of the side streets without hearing a band rehearsing. Loads of nightclubs catering to all different kinds of music with live bands. Lots of niche hobby shops, 2nd hand clothes shops and markets like the Dandelion, Liberty Market etc. Maybe you missed all that but I can tell you that Dublin was alive back then. And of course cars give you freedom, you can hop in your car and go where you like and be within a 5 hour drive to anywhere in the country.....for now! But in the future that won't be the case as cars will have a remote dead switch and you'll be told "sorry, you've reached your monthly carbon footprint limit and you're not permitted to travel there" or they'll simply not permit you to charge your EV. So welcome to the new world order where your travel is controlled and your shopping is limited to a handful of multinational corporations.

[@calibvr]

this wouldnt be a problem if they actually built the metro

[@katinss9983]

Thats not so bad, in Donegal Town, The county council are preventing motor cyclists from parking their bikes in the main square in the town centre. Think about that !

[@theomegakillerbotpolice1623]

Sort the lights out they’re the problem not the road

[@pat2bornot2b]

Hat a stupid report, should be looking at the roads around the inner city to see of they are now gridlocked. It's like asking people on Grafton Street if the traffic on that street is bad. 😂

[@BarryShaw-r2m]

Is there nothing the incompetence government can't make worse.....

[@khanyah_M]

Breaking the rule and paying the fine might be cheaper, then spending an extra hour in traffic :|

[@oreallyoreilly6576]

People in there cars and on busses longer than ever before, because there no traffic flow with all these brain dead changes. Ruined the city. Good luck to it all when it's December

[@josephoceallaigh3844]

15 Minute city. Ireland is being invaded.

[@KXXULADavidOC]

its just ridiculous, just more to make life harder for people, the more that ignore it the better

[@David-xv4nz]

It's worst Idea they ever had wait till Christmas rush

[@ishkaranbrar313]

If everybody in unison would break stupid rules, they won't be able to enforce them.

[@tymon1928]

"nothing you can do about it" - the original irish mindset is dangerous; you can expect only worse things then

[@jimk140]

The Irish Times reinforcing shit policy with one sided interviews as usual. How is there foreigners working as council workers too? Known as being one of the hardest jobs to get in this country. Diversity hiring has ruined this country on top of all the other lefty policies. So the governemnt can now tell rhe public which roads they can and can't drive on? Sure let's give a lane specifically to Nigerians and another just for Indians.

[@ExtraterrestrialsareReall]

Leaky Leo in his own word's "civil service is too white."

[@OscarOSullivan]

Because working to support local government or national government should not be exclusively an Irish born job. Been that way for a long time for local authorities. My Welsh grandad worked for a council for most of his working life and after coming here.

[@jimk140]

@@OscarOSullivan You don't start a sentence with "because". And you didn't give a reason why, only a personal reason. Everyone has a personal reason for doing things, it doesn't mean that it's right or helpful to anyone else. Going for a position of power in another persons country whether you're capable or not means you're power hungry, try fix your own country first. Nobody wants to be governed by foreigners, very simple.

[@heilong79]

Social engineering, prue stupidness.

[@docastrov9013]

How are you supposed to get to the car ferries?

[@caoimhecampbell5985]

If only they dug a massive motorway tunnel under the city for that purpose.

[@johndevoy5211]

And the city traders must be really happy. Less people going into the city centre. But yer damned sure, the rates will go up each year.

[@garrydullaghan3207]

Strong Dublin accent ,

[@pauloconnor2851]

Kippy dublin

[@Chayton_Duffy]

Upgrade the transport facilities they’re awful we’re among the worst capitals in Europe for transport, An Underground needs to become a thing buses and luas are adding to the traffic it’s actually embarrassing