On 20/02/2024 12:00, Simon Mason wrote:
In 2024, Dublin will become the latest European capital to bar traffic merely passing through its city centre on their way to somewhere else.
Private cars and commercial trucks will be allowed access only if their final destination is downtown.
To do this, Ireland’s largest city is beginning a process of replanning its central streets. The move is a bid to clear the roads and clean the air at its core.
The plan promises to both ease current traffic congestion and allow for the creation of new pedestrian streets and plazas that will make Dublin’s heart an altogether more pleasant place to linger.
The plan sets a goal of a 60 per cent traffic reduction in the urban centre.
The tools used to achieve this are fairly simple: Two “bus gates” on either bank of the River Liffey will prevent private vehicles from crossing, and several streets will be reconfigured so that vehicles travelling into downtown are routed along
loops that ultimately direct them back out in the same direction.
OF COURSE, DUBLIN IS NOT PART OF THE UK, MEANING THAT MAY SUN'S POST IS
AN OFF-TOPIC TROLL.
But a driver commuting in from the south (say fron Dun Laoghaire) to a workplace just off O'Connell Street will no longer be able to cross the
river to get to that spot a few yards north of the Quays?
Weird...
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