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What we learned from reports to our cycle collision tracker this year
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In Chapelizod, council official says it’ll move “as soon as we can” to make getting to and from school safer
A transport assessment for the village almost three years ago had flagged the need for change.
In the Liberties, council finds fences installed at entrances to new Grand Canal Harbour apartment complex “an issue”
Planners are talking to the developers and management company, a council official said.
As the rates electricity companies pay for power from rooftop solar panels fall, homeowners shrug
More likely to impact the rate of installations is a planned decrease from 1 January in government grants for the installation of panels.
A short animated film tells the story of a Dublin child trafficked for criminal exploitation
Forced criminality has been happening in the north inner-city for years but, lately, it is happening more openly, says Belinda Nugent, of ICON.
What is the council looking to change about transport in Dublin city next year?
Dublin City Council transport committee chair Janet Horner and transport chief Brendan O’Brien listed their priorities, from reviewing speed limits again to emissions-based parking charges.
Seeking a louder voice, Crumlin residents look to start a new community forum
It’s one of three actions on a to-do list that emerged from the People’s Transition Crumlin project.
Men living at Kilbride Army Camp while they seek asylum find the little privacy they have is being eroded
They now have to show their papers to enter – despite a judge ruling that a similar measure was overly intrusive a decade ago.
On Talbot Street, residents want a bus stop moved from outside their front door
The difficulties they face being heard are part of a wider problem, says one councillor.
Council plans to green Dublin 8’s Golden Lane, to help it sop up rain better
Tree pits, rain gardens, and swales would help absorb rain, to reduce the flow into the sewers when it’s really tipping it down.
Council manager says this time it’s really going to build more Traveller accommodation in the city, honest
“I’m on the Local Traveller Accommodation Consultative Committee over 10 years and there has been zero delivery in that time,” says Sinn Féin Councillor Anthony Connaghan.
The S6 is bus route most often reported to no-show bus tracker for ghosting passengers
Of 740 reports of ghost buses since the tracker was launched on 16 November, 48 were about the S6.