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.”
The NTA is working on revising schedules and updating technology to try to make sure buses in Dublin – and real-time information about them – are more reliable, a spokesperson said.
When there’s construction and a challenge with road space, the answer always seems to be to block the cycle lane, says Ciaran Cannon, of Cycling Ireland.
“We want people cycling today. We want people to feel safe today," says Social Democrats Councillor Paddy Monahan.
"Can we stop, please, with commissioning more reports and actually just fix what we already know is broken?" says Mark Gleeson, of Rail Users Ireland.
“It was subsequently recognised that this would be difficult to achieve … ,” says a Department of Transport spokesperson.
Last year, the council left €500,000 in National Transport Authority funding for bus stop improvements on the table.
Operated by Go Ahead, it connects the peninsula to Swords.
“Thousands of people come every week to shop,” says Noel Fleming, owner of Noel’s Deli on Meath Street.
At the moment, they are the lowest of the four Dublin local authorities.
Limited, infrequent service to and from this rural Fingal village stifles their school, work, and socialising opportunities, they say.
“The IAA [Irish Aviation Authority] can tell drones not to go over ‘quiet areas’,” says Social Democrats Councillor Cat O’Driscoll.
The Land Development Agency bought the 125-acre site on the eastern side of the Dart station from developer Richmond Homes back in March