From top: Brown Thomas car park; Sunday Times graphic
Four letters in the Southside Gazette this morning defending the BT carpark. pic.twitter.com/JljTLaruro
— Fergal Reid (@fergalreid) July 20, 2021
This morning.
They are furious.
Sunday: Dublin city council threatened with legal action over car park row (Sunday Times)
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get the bus like all d other bleedin plebs!
problem solved
Clearly you didn’t read the letters.
They should build a huge statue or paint a giant Mural of Jeremy Clarkson on the Car park, with him passing on the keys of a huge SUV to Mannix Flynn, with the legend ” No Peds allowed”
The unelected idiots in Dublin City council are designing inner city access purely for able bodied people and they have no mandate to do so.
It is to hell with the less abled, the wheel chair users, the aged and COPD sufferers.
I will support any TD/Councillor who takes a stand against DCC’s abuse of Dublin citizens
Not sure why you bothered with a reference to unelected idiots. Are you saying that all dublin city council planning jobs should be awarded based on public voting process? Is there evidence to show that results would be better if this were the case? Should we stop hiring on the basis of a competitive recruitment process where qualifications are considered rather than ideological viewpoints?
I mean I could be wrong and electing people with zero experience or qualifications in planning, engineering, and traffic management to do those jobs might work. But I suspect things would get worse.
Cars parked everywhere get in the way of Wheelchair users, blocking paths so they cannot get around. Also, Flynn wants shorter pedestrian lights, which are already too short, which mitigates against those of us who have physical disabilities, COPD, or are aged and not sprightly any more. DCC are making it easier for those who are not able bodied. Every single thing you have said above is wrong. Demonstrably so.
How about if the Brown Thomas car park was made available solely for people with disabled badges? Then that would sort that out. Then, if the COMPLETE centre of town was pedestrianised, these wheelchair users would find getting around much easier, without having to cope with traffic. That should solve all of your arguments.
It would also make the city centre a much nicer place to go, and would attract more shoppers.
Or perhaps you were really only concerned about retaining car access for yourself?
Chef’s Kiss. Perfection.
+1
I’ve found that the people who give out about the removal of parking spaces hurting access for those who need it generally go awfully quiet when the suggestion is made that _all_ parking space in the areas in question is turned into disabled parking only.
But thats surely the best compromise – remove 50%-80% of parking spaces, turn the rest into disabled parking. That way all those who actually need close-by parking spaces will then get them even more easily than now.
Who are these old codgers writing these letters?
Who is even reading them apart from a few saddos who write to broadsheet?
Verily, the Fourth Wave can’t come quick or virulently enough….
though the letter about the politician WAS pretty funny
The problem is those car parks are too central, they should be allocated around the centre not directly in it, keep the cars to the outskirts