Maybe we could name a Park after him...
Public transport in Dublin. Chaos - close to breakdown?
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Another day in commuter paradise. No wonder there was so much traffic on the N11 this morning - even at 11am it was crawling towards the city from Foxrock Church to Leopardstown Road junction. (Gardai nabbing a few bus lane chancers too!)
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Disruption for commuters as Luas line down due to power fault, heavy traffic delays in city centre
There is disruption for commuters this morning as the Luas Green Line was down due to a power fault.
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Luas services disrupted due to power fault
A power fault has caused disruption to Luas services in Dublin this morning with traffic delays reported across the city centre.
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Unbelievable that the LUAS Green line is still down this evening. Disaster for anyone living along that line, not to mention the thousands of workers in the likes of Sandyford and Dundrum/Carrickmines Shopping centres. And they don't even know the cause of the power outage!
This update from LUAS operators at 4.37pm:
Current Green Line Status: No service operating between Broombridge and Brides Glen (Full Line).
The service disruption has been caused by a power fault. Currently, we are not in a position to confirm the cause.
This update from LUAS operators at 4.37pm:
Current Green Line Status: No service operating between Broombridge and Brides Glen (Full Line).
The service disruption has been caused by a power fault. Currently, we are not in a position to confirm the cause.
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An unmitigated disaster, made even worse by the miserable winter weather and busy time of the year for shopping and partying. I started this thread just over a year ago (to some dismissive comments.) Things have gone downhill noticeably...expect a lot more of this.
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“There are only two buses from Sandyford to the city and they were packed, we couldn’t get on them yesterday evening,” she said.
“In my case, I finished at 5pm but it didn’t look possible I could get home, so I waited until 6pm and finally I got on to a bus at 7.30pm and then I got home at 9pm.
“The 80 bus route is already problematic and then the Luas isn’t working, it’s a nightmare. Honestly I’m very glad I don’t have kids because trying to pick them up and drop them to school would be impossible.”
Luas Green Line services resume after fault
Dublin's Luas Green Line is operating as normal are after a fault caused a disruption to services for over 24 hours.
‘I finished at 5pm and got home by 9pm’: Commuters describe ‘nightmare’ without the Luas
Green Line’s suspension, combined with inadequacy of bus service, leaves workers facing longer journeys and deep frustration
“There are only two buses from Sandyford to the city and they were packed, we couldn’t get on them yesterday evening,” she said.
“In my case, I finished at 5pm but it didn’t look possible I could get home, so I waited until 6pm and finally I got on to a bus at 7.30pm and then I got home at 9pm.
“The 80 bus route is already problematic and then the Luas isn’t working, it’s a nightmare. Honestly I’m very glad I don’t have kids because trying to pick them up and drop them to school would be impossible.”
It doesn't though.
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If only he'd followed his leader Ivana and got on his bike on this perfect day/week for cycle lanes.
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Ciarán Ahern told the Dáil that his colleague, Kildare South TD Mark Wall, was due to bring the motion this morning, but "rather ironically, or perhaps appropriately, he’s stuck in traffic right now, coming in from Athy, and he’s been there for three-and-a-half hours".
TD can't propose congestion motion due to traffic delay
A Labour Party TD who was due to propose a motion on reducing congestion could not do so, because of a traffic delay on the M50 this morning.
Ciarán Ahern told the Dáil that his colleague, Kildare South TD Mark Wall, was due to bring the motion this morning, but "rather ironically, or perhaps appropriately, he’s stuck in traffic right now, coming in from Athy, and he’s been there for three-and-a-half hours".
DUBLIN IS THE third most congested city in the world and the sixth slowest city for traffic...
In all, Dublin City motorists lost seven days and 23 hours due to traffic in rush hours, almost eight hours more than in 2024.
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In all, Dublin City motorists lost seven days and 23 hours due to traffic in rush hours, almost eight hours more than in 2024.
Dublin is the third most congested city and sixth slowest city in the world for traffic
The latest research from Satnav company TomTom shows that the average speed during rush hour in Dublin is 13.5 km/h.
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Yes, and cycle-lanes as well as the reduction of filter/left-lane turns are a major contributor to that congestion along with other measures such as getting rid of those "inlets" at bus stops allowing other vehicles to pass by. (Deansgrange Rd not far from me is a perfect example among many; the barely-used cycle-lane reducing road space has meant nothing can pass a stopped delivery truck, taxi, ambulance, bus etc., backing up traffic in the area.)
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The reason travel in Dublin is constantly a problem is simply because most of the transport is on the roads. Every time I am in London I cannot but be impressed by how fantastic their rail network is there. A very simple visual illustration of the vast difference in the two cities is to compare the rail network maps.
In London you have a huge amount of options in getting from A to B with various connection points to help you get across the city and there are trains frequently running on every line. Typically you are never waiting more than 10 minutes, often much less.
Then you compare it to Dublin where you have 3 options within the city itself which shuttle passengers, the two Luas lines and the Dart line. These options mean that if you want to cross the city you must come into the city center. It also means that unless you live within walking distance of one of these lines, you must find alternative ways of either getting to the line or crossing the city.
Obviously improving and adding to a rail network requires a massive investment but it's also pretty obvious that this is a much better way of resolving the issue. If we continue to rely on solutions based on our road network then we will continue facing problems.
In London you have a huge amount of options in getting from A to B with various connection points to help you get across the city and there are trains frequently running on every line. Typically you are never waiting more than 10 minutes, often much less.
Then you compare it to Dublin where you have 3 options within the city itself which shuttle passengers, the two Luas lines and the Dart line. These options mean that if you want to cross the city you must come into the city center. It also means that unless you live within walking distance of one of these lines, you must find alternative ways of either getting to the line or crossing the city.
Obviously improving and adding to a rail network requires a massive investment but it's also pretty obvious that this is a much better way of resolving the issue. If we continue to rely on solutions based on our road network then we will continue facing problems.
In fairness London is one of the great world cities, a former imperial capital and has been rich for hundreds of years. Their population is around 10 million, with hundreds of thousands of visitors each day during busy times. They started building their underground in the 1860's. It's not a fair comparison.
The stupid restrictions during covid aswell where only 1 person could sit in a seat and there had to be a seat empty in between. That reduced the capacity by 75%, people couldn't get on the reduced frequency of buses aswell. Is it any wonder people don't trust public transport. They were actively discouraged from using it during covid. No other countries went to such extremes. It was deemed essential to keep public transport capacity running in most other countries despite the risk of covid.
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It's not Purple, agreed. That doesn't change the fact that a solution to the issue in Dublin must involve improving the rail network. It doesn't absolutely have to be underground but at a bare minimum it should involve more connectivity around the suburbs without forcing everyone in to the city center in order to come out another line.
Really? So we went further than China who had armed guards stationed at apartment complexes ensuring no one came or went? They were only allowed to exit their homes with evidence of a medical appointment.
Covid started in China, so obviously being a completely unknown virus they were going to goto the extremes. Also they are an authoritarian state and that is their modus operandi for alot of things. China isn't a contemporary of Ireland, I'm talking about the uk and European countries. We went to the extreme with public transport restrictions in comparison to our contemporaries. China isn't a contemporary of Ireland
I was in Spain when Covid broke out and IIRC they had one of the more severe lockdowns that went on for months
The only reasons you could leave your home was to go grocery shopping or medical appointments
They had police cars driving around looking for people and even if you were in your front garden you were told to get indoors or be fined
I believe later on the Spanish courts ruled that the restrictive lockdown was unconstitutional
I remember been able to cycle 1,2,5 and 10 km from my house during the summer of 2020 here when my Spanish friends couldn't leave their homes
That's a lot of backtracking on a simple claim. Making such broad and demonstrably false statements ruins reasonable debate.