This morning/afternoon.
Via Dublin City Council:
Dublin City Council would like to announce that it intends to proceed with plans to make Capel Street Traffic Free, apart from deliveries between 6am and 11am.
This follows a public consultation during which 1,766 submissions were received. 91% of the submissions were in favour of the proposal. The Central Area Committee at their meeting this morning unanimously endorsed the report and proposal.
Details will be issued in the next couple of days regarding access routes and implementation date…
In fairness.
Final public consultation report here.
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Delighted, and very entertaining to watch all whinging and moaning about it
+1 … but hopefully you’ll still also be allowed buy and sell turf at all hours too, as god intended…
I:will not be whinging about as the gridlock on other streets from the closure
I will be laughing at the powerhouse of the economy
is this going to herald in pedestrianization across Ireland. wonder if the Capel street shop owners were in favour of it.
It’s absolute madness from a traffic management pov.. getting from the north side to the south of the city is already a nightmare.. we already have a divided city..
Take the bus…
Take the Dart…
Take that new Luas line, that one crosses the Liffey.
Yeah Rob, not something you’ve done obviously. Every single bus that crosses the river goes across O’Connell bridge, which then merges with the LUAS. It can regularly take over an hour at rush hour to get from Parnell to Stephen’s Green. It’s generally faster to walk, however nice that is in summer it’s not really a viable solution. As for Capel St. two traffic lanes have been reduced to one on Church st, also taking up to an hour to get across and now going to have another 45,000 cars/vans having to use it. Capel might be lovely pedestrianised, but the public transport does not meet the needs of commuters, the traffic management system doesn’t function. A modern city, even an ancient city, works to accommodate what’s needed for its citizens and not what a deeply corrupt and stupid city council decides because it has a ‘notion’ for what’s best.
I was chatting with the manager of Centra a couple of weeks ago when I first heard about this.
He’s delighted.
Shoe shops will be well pleased
Mind you people will now go to shopping centres where you can take your car
Soon the city centre will be junkie heaven
91 percent is suspiciously lop sided.
“Just 6 businesses on Capel Street objected to plan, and, of the business submissions, 53 identical submissions were received from businesses — the report said these were “mainly from businesses in the Jervis Centre, fourteen from Louis Copeland staff and 24 from unknown businesses who didn’t include their business name or location”.
– from the excellent Irish Cycle news site