What’s the best way to tell area residents about plans for a new asylum shelter nearby?
The government should tell communities directly about plans for new asylum shelters, some activists and politicians say.
“I feel like if it was a stolen car that was worth two grand, they would, they would try and find it,” says Hugh O’Sullivan, whose e-bike was stolen last month.
From 2019 to 2022, people who ran HGV registration plates through the council’s permit-checker app threw up 1,013 verified infringements and 277 permits.
These were some of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at a recent meeting of their transport committee.
The cycling and walking paths next to the Royal and Grand canals have isolated, cut-off stretches and can get sketchy at night, users say.
Some residents who have been campaigning to make it a park, now worry that the plan is for much of it to be a cycle track, first and foremost.
The council is now planning to decide whether to make the temporary bollards and planters that stop rat running on Pigeon House Road permanent.
At recent meetings, councillors for the southside of the city debated three possible transport changes – two proposed in the shorter-term and one further in the future.
Of those who’d been in collisions, more than half of those asked said they’d collided with vehicles, while more than a quarter said they’d been alone but hit a pothole or bollard, or the like.
At Monday’s monthly council meeting City Engineer John Flanagan issued a report to councillors about four major cycling projects in the city, and more.
Next month, charity Frontline Make Change plans to open Frontline Bike, an upcycling bike shop aimed to bridge the gap between addiction recovery and employment.
“It’s the busiest route for bicycles, I think, coming into the city on the north side,” says Green Party Councillor Janet Horner.
The council and the NTA are planning more changes to footpaths and roads across the city to help people to get where they are going while observing social distancing.
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