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At two recent meetings of the council’s South East Area Committee, councillors dug into the issue.
“It would be such a retrograde step if the bunkers are culled,” says Fine Gael Councillor Ray McAdam.
Gardaí didn’t respond to queries on where they were. Dublin City Council said it would be happy to help roll-out a system of red-light cameras.
The company says it’s working hard to recruit new drivers. But two drivers and a union rep say the problem isn’t hiring them, it’s keeping them.
Improvements along a 3.8km stretch from Suir Road to Leeson Street are scheduled to be done by the end of this year.
“The spirit of Capel Street is really old Dublin,” says architect Bernard Seymour. “It’s an old trading street and it still has this individual vibe.”
At the Inchicore Railway Works, Stephen Campbell and his team have been working for more than four years on ways to green Irish Rail’s fleet.
When the superstore was first granted planning permission, it came with the condition of paid parking. Now, the council says it’s okay free, and customers say charging would be unfair.
This time last year there were 12. Now there are five.
In the area around the centre, the number of people over 65 years of age has increased significantly, according to the most recent CSO data available. There are ways the centre could be more accessible for older people, locals say.
Councillors had wanted to talk, among other things, about progress on sharing key data that they say the council needs to make roads safer.
It’s the next phase in developing the park along a skinny kilometre of the Luas Red Line from Basin View in the east to Suir Road Bridge in the west.