A Dublino sono necessarie tariffe poiché il traffico mattutino ha picchi peggiori che a Londra, afferma Dublin Bus

As countless international studies repeatedly show, increasing public transport significantly increases demand for public transport. Introducing congestion charges has limited effects and just moves traffic elsewhere while hitting working class hardest. One of these studies was done in Ireland too with the Local Link service.

I commute every day from west Dublin to South Dublin, near Stephen’s green. My commute has gotten 20-30 minutes longer than this time last year because loads of the roads have gone from 2 lanes into 1 lane and a bus lane.

I fully support investing so more people are getting the bus into work, but it’s been so detrimental shutting off 50% of an extremely busy inner city road to 95% of the vehicles on it, and no noticeable changes in the number of cars vs buses.

The current approach has been to make driving around the city difficult, through the use of bus gates, turn restrictions and some (lets be honest, exceptionally limited) pedestrianisation.

That’s fine, it can be very confusing if you’re not familiar with the city though. But the big place we’re falling down is that we hardly enforce it.

I think for many people a congestion charge would make driving into Dublin on the rare times they need to much easier, while also stopping a lot of the bad behaviour we see now. But we could also solve a lot of that bad behaviour with camera based enforcement of some of the existing rules.

Totally the right time for this given the shelving of public transport projects. 

If Dublin had London levels of public transportation nobody would argue with this. 

It just doesn’t though.