Across the city, parents snatch their kids out of the way of red-light-breaking drivers
Despite years of talk, a promised national strategy on red-light cameras is yet to be published – let alone implemented.
“We're going to develop different urban trial hedgerows,” says Sophie von Maltzan. “The edible hedgerow, and the not-so-fast-growing hedgerow, and the thorn-free hedge.”
Fingal County Council launched a feasibility study in 2017. But the project still requires further study, a spokesperson said this week.
“Not all native species will survive what’s coming,” he told Dublin city councillors on the climate committee.
The current development plan sets an aim of doubling allotments, caveated, with “if feasibly possible”.
When there’s construction and a challenge with road space, the answer always seems to be to block the cycle lane, says Ciaran Cannon, of Cycling Ireland.
Local residents, not council officials, should decide how the community gain fund is spent, says independent Councillor John Lyons.
“We want people cycling today. We want people to feel safe today," says Social Democrats Councillor Paddy Monahan.
"Can we stop, please, with commissioning more reports and actually just fix what we already know is broken?" says Mark Gleeson, of Rail Users Ireland.
Designers have new philosophies these days: more nature, natural colours, and trolls.
Among the proposals? A new community team with outreach workers, violence interrupters, and health professionals.
“It was subsequently recognised that this would be difficult to achieve … ,” says a Department of Transport spokesperson.
Two major hotel developments are planned to rise beside St Catherine’s Church on Meath Street, high over this place of peace and prayer.