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Efforts continue to take the job of regulating Dublin Airport noise away from Fingal County Council
The council is too entangled with the airport to be independent, critics say. Labour TD Duncan Smith has introduced a bill to give the EPA the job instead.
Despite parents’ pleas, council has no plans to make walking and cycling across the Chapelizod Bypass to get to school safer
“Someone’s going to be seriously hurt on that road. What are they waiting for?” says parent Adrienne Lee.
Council plans campaign to urge cyclists to be more careful when sharing spaces with pedestrians
Both the Dublin Cycling Campaign and advocates for people with disabilities say they don’t think this is the right approach.
A new programme would help learner drivers get their practice in – legally and more safely – between lessons
At the moment, even though it’s illegal, even though they’re putting others at risk, many learners simply drive on their own.
Residents group pushes for more permanent pedestrianisation of part of Sandymount Green
For several summers, the road along the north-east side of the triangular park has been pedestrianised at the weekends.
In north Fingal, parents push for more school bus services to ease waiting lists
When choosing a school for her daughter, Ballyboughal mother Pamela Clarke says the deciding factor was which bus she could get a seat on. “It’s frustrating.”
Brushing up: A monument to “Demolition” Dave Conway, who helped clear the way for the Luas’s Red Line
Conway, a crane operator, died in a motorcycle crash in 2001, at age 38.
Local councillors push to close another route in the north inner-city due to anti-social behaviour
Former council planner Kieran Rose says the council has lost the plot. “It’s crazy,” he says. “If we do this we are giving up on the city.”
Councillors look for more consultation with disabled people on city-centre traffic plan
“If it’s stopping us from going into the city centre, it infringes our basic human rights,” says Robert Sinnott, of Voice of Vision Impairment.
Danger for people who cycle: a junction near Heuston Station
Several people have reported this as a dangerous spot, and have ideas on how the council could make it safer.
Councillors push for changes in the way parking-enforcement is done in the city
One of the more contentious issues is how to deal with footpath parking. Work to stamp it out entirely? Or formally allow it in certain areas?
While awaiting dramatic revamp of Newmarket Square approved in 2017, council plans smaller improvements
One part of the council hasn’t progressed the revamp, so another hopes to spruce up the swathe of old asphalt now that it’s ringed with fancy new developments.