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    2. karolaug on

      >But Ireland’s car ownership rate is the fourth lowest in the EU.

      The problem is the lack of infrastructure. Contrary to the popular opinion we do not have a lot of cars and if we invested in road infrastructure in key areas we would solve the problem.

      The public transport is objectively less convenient and more time consuming. As we have a lot of space and low population density with the correct infrastructure we could all commute in comfort way faster than even with the best public transport possible. At least everywhere outside Dublin.

    3. WazzaD on

      Office jobs limiting WFH. Silly imo, so much more productive minus a 2+ hr commute.

    4. coleraineyid on

      Cars. But also a crippling lack of proper public transport

    6. aflockofcrows on

      Because if there’s congestion it takes longer to get where you want to go.

    7. Cool_Foot_Luke on

      Wow, who would have thought increasing the population by over 30% over a 20 year period, while at the same time barely increasing infrastructure would lead to massive congestion.
      Now do the health system, the education system, the child care system, and the housing system.

    9. OrlandoGardiner118 on

      Lots of cars, poor infrastructure, poor public transport.

    10. Tecnoguy1 on

      The standard of driving.

      The rule is to yield when merging even coming to a stop. The dynamic speed limits amplify this so the traffic never clears.

      Most exits are also traffic generation zones because they are designed really badly.

    11. Jellyfish00001111 on

      If only people could avoid the commute and work from home.

    14. Pale_Piano948 on

      No public transport
      Urban sprawl 
      No park and rides for those coming from the countryside 
      Wfh initiative is half assed

    15. bobspuds on

      I don’t know if I’d say its completely bad planning because most of the issues in my area seem to be from the increased amount of traffic. Like the idea of roundabouts is to keep traffic flowing yet its often followed by a set of traffic lights that stop flow and create backups,

      then you also often find junctions without a filter light and no filter lane, if 2 cars need to filter across the whole queue behind can only sit there.

      I’m seeing here in Navan, the solution they come up with in one area is great until you get to the older area’s and the new 2/3 lane traffic all has to bottle down into single lane traffic. Its a fucking joke around Navan town nowadays, its easily the worst the traffic has ever been in town with the new updates and “solutions”

    16. smudgeonalense on

      Car dependency, poor public transport, low density urban sprawl, roads that had had insufficient capacity even before they were finished being built and a glacial moving infuriating planning system that prevents anyone fixing it. Probably also our individualistic society.

    17. Thisisnotgoodforyou on

      2 or more cars for every family with a population 50% higher than it was when we built the road network, the failure of decentralisation, a total lack of high rise in CBDs, with bus lanes and bike lanes now making it worse. Always 30 years behind on roads because of the political resistance to building roads. Not building roads doesn’t make public transport better folks. It’s a copout.

    18. robilco on

      Increased population, places of work congregated in areas and the biggest…. No underground metro.

    19. MiggeldyMackDaddy on

      Terrible, infrequent public transport not going to the proper places. Terrible cycling infrastructure and terrible mentality towards cycling and cyclists. 1 person per car for commutes.

    20. finbarrformerlybaz on

      Enshrining the right to WFH is a no brainer. A school bus system would also make a huge difference.

    21. Imperial_Tiramisu on

      Because of our centralized economy.

      That’s the cause for all of our problems.

      Everyone on their mother wants to live in greater Dublin.

      – That’s why all the existing infrastructure is collapsing on top of itself.

      – Why all services are overwhelmed

      – Why housing is so expensive

      There’s actually plenty of houses, but nobody wants to live in Leitrim or Cahir. They want to live in greater Dublin.

    22. Opposite-Falcon-2118 on

      Keep collecting taxes from the motorist, invest almost none of it in roads, repeat for the last 40 years.

    23. Old-Structure-4 on

      Because too many people keep using their cars too much

    24. Key-Lie-364 on

      Too many cars, fragmented and under provisioned public transport.

      NIMBYs, legacy of a poor country.

      Also accumulated debt, we have so little proper public transport that it seems only cars can really deliver anything.

      Also the “ah shure it’ll be grand” attitude “just a a new lane to the m50 and shure away you go shure”

      Lack of applying rules of the road too. Take people parking on pavements or in bus lanes outside churches and graveyards, it’s the culture of letting drivers away with it on the presumption there is some valid social reason for it.

      One metro line for Dublin is woefully indeaquate we need at least four.

      Even our most ambitious outlook falls short of the mark.

      We suffer from a lack of confidence and imagination a lack of vision and a lack of drive to change things.

      Transport is just a very visible outcome of that small country can’t fix things mentality

    25. Specific-Manager-125 on

      Planners and authorities brainwashed to hate and inconvenience cars at every opportunity while simultaneously spending all the money on quangos, wages and pensions but none on infrastructure

      Had a UK friend here last year who claimed they had never seen so many traffic lights so close together ….we use a junction just off the artane roundabout , worked fine , now completely screwed by new and completely unnecessary traffic lights

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