David O’Connor lectures at DIT and co-runs the MSc in Transport and Mobility, a new multi-disciplinary programme in transport planning. Follow him on: www.twitter.com/doccer
Some fear that changes on the quays and elsewhere will reroute heavy traffic into residential areas. Actually, the traffic will likely just “evaporate”, writes DIT lecturer David O’Connor.
Over the years, many transport experts have challenged authorities with visionary maps of how Dubliners might get proper access to the city they live in. This is a tribute to their ideas.
The decision to wind down agencies such as the Temple Bar Cultural Trust and Ballymun Regeneration Limited was questionable, argue David O’Connor and Odran Reid.
As traffic levels continue to grow in the Dublin area, the NTA appears to be realising the increasingly urgent and pertinent role of the “Core Bus Network”.
We should be able to transfer between buses, the Luas, and the Dart, without being charged more, writes DIT transport planning lecturer David O’Connor.
For the new Luas Cross City to run smoothly, we need to have a workable city-centre transport study pinned down. We are in a race against time to make sure that happens.
The council estimates that the Liffey Quay Cycle Route will carry up to 1,500 cyclists per hour along the north quays. That’s far more people than private cars could carry along that route.
Dublin Bus wants more productivity out of its workers. That will require less congested roads, and an updated route map, says transport lecturer David O’Connor.
