We received notification today that the College Green plaza plan has been refused by An Bord Pleanála. We noted that An Bord Pleanála clearly noted the same concerns that were expressed by DublinTown in its submissions. Statement here https://t.co/HvHPJpZzX4 #CollegeGreenplaza pic.twitter.com/f5oK3irvg6
— weareDublinTown (@weareDublinTown) October 17, 2018
Ah well.
Previously: No Plaza-ing Some People
poo, I really liked that plan. Any chance An Bord Pleanála can get out of the way of real progress?
For fupp’s sake
Liathróidí.
Whatever about this, south William st, drury st, clarendon st and exchequer st should be pedestrianised.
Agreed
Throw in Wicklow st and Stephen st
Ah ffs
City Council have made a right hames of the the City
The city is mangled
Especially the quays, Dublin 1 and 2 are an effin disaster
In Crumlin Village they put up traffic lights were none were requested or required and now there is a permanent Traffic Jam
Yet on a road with (on average) 12 buses an hour
double sided parking
with 4 schools, a community center, a health center, and a 3rd level
a take away, a spar and a pub
there is none
not even a pedestrian crossing
and no bins
The plan was a shambles… it was going to bring the city to a standstill. Pushing even more traffic onto an already gridlocked quays. Funny how this plan only arose when (very late in the day), the NTA realised that there was a big issue with the road traffic, and Luas in College green.
This plan was cobbled together in a panic, and had all the hallmarks of another NTA omnishambels.
The NTA formally known as the DTO are imo the biggest bunch of stuck in the mud, resistant to change arrogant luddites I have ever encountered.
These ‘visionaries’ are charged with planning the city’s future? God help Dublin then because most of them can’t see any further than the end of their own nose.
It was first announced for public consultation two and a half years ago.
I am not joking you have never met the NTA crew; they are Dublin’s equivalent of the DUP.
Temple Bar is pedestrianised, small streets, no thru traffic.
Trinity College is an impassable chunk of land close by.
Between the two there is a narrow gap, and this cannot be widened.
The NTA cannot do anything about this, and alternative routes to get a bus across the river in either direction go very quite far either East or West of this gap.
Until an option that is not on-street is viable (in my opinion) there is little alternative to buses running thru college green and down dame st.
Which is a pity.
You know part of the idea is to stop traffic coming into the city centre all together. An awful lot of the journeys into the city centre, or through the city centre are utterly unneccesary by private car.
Mannix Flynn objected to part of it becase
“some cyclists do not follow rules”.
By that logic, no roads should be maintained, no footpaths, no infrastructure put in place whatsoever.
The usual conservative nonsense, how about showing a bit of vision once in a while instead of bowing to the business special interests all the time.
Nice plan but cutting out the busses without a viable alternative was daft.
Exactly… maybe we should just move all the businesses out of the city… visitors and users of the city are inconvenience. God forbid that all the people of the city could be dropped off near their destination.
In particular I am thinking of the many people with limited mobility that would be most affected by this.
the only thing I truly moan about is the “transport system” here