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.”
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.
Freeing up part of the Inchicore Railway Works for housing in seven to 10 years might be possible, though, the internal emails said.
The government scheme to help people buy bikes should be available to others beyond just PAYE employees, some cycling advocates and would-be cyclists say.
Speed surveys earlier this year found that 82% of drivers on Hampton Wood Drive broke the limit, while on Brighton Park none did.
If Bridgefoot Street seems strangely wide for such a short city-centre road, that’s because it was once destined to be part of something much larger.