Nobody caught illegally dumping yet by new north inner-city CCTV
But the scheme is a success, said a council official's report, as that shows the cameras are a deterrent.
Since 2022, there have been 332 appeals lodged with councils nationwide, according to a Department of Transport spokesperson.
“It's no exaggeration. I've had at least 20 different people coming to me with this issue,” Councillor Angela Donnelly said.
At a meeting of Dublin City Council’s transport committee on Wednesday, councillors and council managers expressed frustration with the long road ahead.
Requests for a school warden were previously turned down because it was considered too dangerous, said a councillor. In recent times, two other schools have been told the same.
It’s meant to control traffic leaving the Whitehall Colmcille GAA clubhouse car park, across a footpath, onto the road.
“It was subsequently recognised that this would be difficult to achieve … ,” says a Department of Transport spokesperson.
“Private interests are still in control of vast tracts of what should be publicly controlled land, publicly run in the interest of the people.”
The pavement outside Stapolin Educate Together hasn’t yet been taken in charge by Fingal County Council.
Councillors had wanted to talk, among other things, about progress on sharing key data that they say the council needs to make roads safer.
The Road Safety Authority cites GDPR as its reason, but deputy commissioner for the Data Protection Commission says that directive shouldn’t prevent the publication of this data.
It’s not just in this northern strip of the city that road maintenance is an issue, though – but across hundreds of kilometres of its thoroughfares.
Beside roads where the speed limit is 50km/h, Dublin City Council has said it won’t prioritise adding school zones.