Great. Hopefully, Pearse Street, from Sandwich Street to Lombart street will have 2 way segregated bike lanes. Also, hopefully, DCC accelerates plans to make Lincoln Place car-free + starts making more areas of the city car-free + accelerates bike lanes such as Trinity to Ballsbridge.
Town is packed. Especially in the areas like Capel Street, Liffey Street and Bachelor's Walk, where reduced or eliminated traffic has made it much more pleasant to be.
DCC appointed CBRE to survey how business is in the city centre. Nearly 50% of retailers reported that footfall has been lower by 21–40% in stores.
For a myriad reasons of course hence my Simpsons analogy.
Exactly which survey are you referring to? By any chance, are you talking about the one which was undertaken before the city centre transport changes were implemented?
This early 2024 report seems to correspond to what you are talking about -- it's a survey of limited value when there are all sorts of biases in such polls when we have hard data on footfall.
Yeah, retail is probably grand sure.
Dublin will buck the trend and be a city which empties traffic from its centre but without accommodating it unlike just about every other successful metro centre.
Still, nice to look at, I guess.
We built a whole load of new bike lanes and there are more to come. We are implementing BusConnects, which makes bus routes 24/7. We brought in reduced bus fares. I’ve been in this city the guts of 50 years and public transport has never been better. Still a way to go, but it’s progress.
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Can we not have the ambition of a Paris?
For a myriad reasons of course hence my Simpsons analogy.
But more to the point, it's about the businesses affected by work from home.
https://www.cbre.ie/insights/articles/the-implications-of-remote-working-trends-on-economic-activity-in-dublin-city
Dublin will buck the trend and be a city which empties traffic from its centre but without accommodating it unlike just about every other successful metro centre.
Still, nice to look at, I guess.
- Have they put in kilometres of new metro system like Madrid?
- Have they built kilometres of safe cycle paths like Paris?
- Have they introduced a low emissions zone & cut bus/rail fares by 50% like Malaga?
Dying to learn which excellent and joined-up approach has been chosen. 😑