New plans to attract adventure tourism to the Liffey Valley west of the city centre have raised hopes that shelved plans for a river park could rise again.
Some veteran councillors remember when the council had more direct income, and more discretion on spending. They’re on the lookout for new sources of revenue: like bridge tolls, and a hotel bed tax.
Some veteran carriage drivers say a new crop of young drivers aren’t trained and equipped as well as they could be. And the Garda say they have cracked down.
Rerouting bus routes from College Green to Parliament Street would increase the number of buses passing through from 85 to 1,660 per day, according to a traffic study by Transport Insights.
Dublin City Council chief Owen Keegan told councillors he’d made no statement about privatising street-cleaning services. But he’s still at odds with them over the Marrowbone Lane site.
From another bridge over the Liffey to a new centre for dance, here are proposals that councillors pushed for in the latest debates on the city development plan.
