Remembering Cathleen O'Neill, who beat down a path for other women
“A force bigger than life itself,” said a eulogy by O’Neill’s friend Carmel Jennings. “Working-class warrior,” said Rita Fagan, another friend of O’Neill’s.
Drivers say they buy bigger cars and SUVs to keep themselves safe, or to carry more people or stuff. Critics say they’re clogging up the city.
Some residents who have been campaigning to make it a park, now worry that the plan is for much of it to be a cycle track, first and foremost.
Put out for public consultation 7 December to 20 January, the new proposed route includes some significant changes from the last version.
Killian Boland, deputy principal of St Enda’s Primary School, says he’s been told his school is not forgotten. “We’re just somewhere on a list at the moment.”
Business owners and councillors agree it’s a challenge – some suggest adding loading bays, others, experimenting more with delivery hubs.
To make it easier to get around the city without catching the virus, it had cut waiting times for walkers. In August, it increased them again.
Organising votes, only for them to be rejected all the time, is a waste of resources, said the council’s parking enforcement officer at a recent meeting.
While a councillor has raised the idea, when students and parents have been surveyed on how best to ease congestion, school buses haven’t always come out on top.
Maybe it will balance out, some suggest, as hosting fewer cars in the city should reduce costs for the council too.
It’s a proposal that hasn’t gone down well with some local councillors and residents, who argue that it’s against council policy.
The council is now planning to decide whether to make the temporary bollards and planters that stop rat running on Pigeon House Road permanent.
A pedestrian-friendly vision backed by the council’s parks department seems to have lost out to a vision favoured by the roads department.