New film documents Dubliners’ resistance to subordination of social life to profit
“The market is a monster,” says filmmaker James Redmond. “It turns living spaces into dead space.”
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Council Briefs: Electric barbecues in parks, cuts to active travel funding, and more
Dublin City Council has installed one electric barbecue at an undisclosed location, in a park. “Trial due to go live early 2024,” says a council report.
Lack of direct bus service from Blanchardstown to Dublin Airport is pushing people into cars
Quadri Lawal says his commute to work at the airport takes about 20 minutes by car, or three times as long via a roundabout bus journey.
The 39a bus from Ongar keeps skipping stops there to make up time, messing up local residents’ journeys into town
“Getting into the city centre is an absolute nightmare, and I’ve had to resort to taking a taxi a couple of times.”
Owner of the strange access tower at the Clongriffin Dart Station wants to hand it over to Irish Rail
The option will be considered as part of a study now being carried out by consultants, said a spokesperson for the National Transport Authority.
As overcrowding puts some passengers off the Luas, NTA says plans are afoot to address the problem
But because the Luas shares city streets with other road users, there’s only so much that can be done to expand capacity, says Mark Gleeson, of Rail Users Ireland.
Residents push for council to slow down cars and trucks on Crumlin Road
At a meeting Monday, a council engineer said it was doing speed surveys and could look at making changes. “We need to take some actions now,” he said.
Under new guidelines, there’ll be no more public consultations before trialling medium-sized traffic changes, council transport chief says
“The trial is the consultation,” Brendan O’Brian said, explaining the new Department of Transport guidelines for medium-sized projects.
Congestion charges “not a suitable tool” for the city at the moment, council transport chief says
He suggested that a low-emissions zone for the city centre, and a pay-per-mile model for the Dublin region might be better.
In Baldoyle, residents have been waiting 13 years for permanent and universal access to their local Dart station
The temporary steel tower that connects the town to the station has been without a functioning elevator for two months.
A quest to understand statistics published by the Road Safety Authority leads to a wild answer chase
That’s not good, says Fine Gael TD Ciarán Cannon. “There is no one central repository for all the data we need to make our roads safer.”
In the north inner-city, a proposal to fence in council flats to keep the world out
A council committee voted to start a process to close off the public right of way on Hardwicke Street, which would set the stage for putting up fences and gates.
In Balbriggan, a street party encourages conversations about a lower-carbon future for the town
The council has been considering options such as pedestrianisation to reduce carbon emissions in the seaside town.