These were some of the issues Dublin city councillors discussed at a recent meeting of their transport committee.
Tag: pedestrians
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How Can the Council Make the City’s Canalside Paths Safer?
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.
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Council Has Budgeted €1m for Pedestrian Crossings and Councillors Want to Know Where They’ll Be Installed
That amount of money might cover 12 crossings if they are simple ones, or up to just three or four if they are more complicated.
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How Did Pedestrianisation Trials Go in the City Centre?
With the trials finished now, different parties have been running surveys on how it went – with different results.
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Disability Advocates Have Not Been Properly Consulted on City Transport Changes, Some Say
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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Council Continues to Rejig Streets to Make Space for Pedestrian and Cyclists
“We see these changes coming in place for at least a year, and then some of them might be in place for a more permanent project,” says Brendan O’Brien, the council’s executive engineer for traffic.
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New Plans for Pedestrian and Cycling Bridge Over the Liffey Released by Council
Blood Stoney Bridge would stretch about 125 metres across the river from Sir John Rogerson’s Quay to North Wall Quay.
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The Council is Testing How Best to Close off Streets for Pedestrians
While legally a pedestrian street, there were at one point an average of 435 vehicles a day driving down Essex Street West on the edge of Temple Bar.
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Dublin City Council May Soon Get a New Cycling and Walking Officer
It hasn’t had someone devoted to post since last summer. With this hiring planned, advocacy groups are making up their wish lists.
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As Public Consultation on BusConnects Continues, Groups Mobilise to Fight Their Corners
Central to the current debates about BusConnects is how to balance moving people through neighbourhoods, and maintaining a sense of place within them.