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    “Non esiste una soluzione rapida per l’M50”, afferma O’Brien | Ultime notizie

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    1. Munchie_Mikey on

      I can think of one….. Office based work being done from home, are they really this tone deaf or do they just not care?

    2. qwerty_1965 on

      There is. Send everyone who does not need to be in the office home.

    3. shozy on

      Yet another minister about yet another problem pretending he’s brand new to government and the current parties haven’t been in charge for almost a century. 

    4. yamalamama on

      The roads are at capacity and there is not a lot that can be done, why is he talking about investing in more roads.

      The only answer is investing in rail and trams, gov plans are full of these projects but are never brought up. Scared of doing anything that takes more than a few months.

    5. HugoZHackenbush2 on

      >’There isn’t a quick fix solution for the M50′, O’Brien says..

      Sherlock has just entered the chat..

      Another middle of the road politician..

    6. Barryd09 on

      There isn’t a quick fix but let’s keep charging for it anyhow.

      Traffic across every major city in ireland is a DISGRACE. For too long people have put up with this shit

    7. justbecauseyoumademe on

      Tax companies if they needlessly disallow remote work especially if they have a recorded record of being able to work hybrid without issues

      call it the M50 tax, the more days you have employees in the office the more you pay

      5 days = 100% of the tax

      4 days = 80%

      3 days = 60%

      2 days = 40%

      1 day = 20%

      0 days = 0%

      I will take my consultancy fee in check please

    10. b2thaza on

      We spent relatively very little to put fibre into each and every home in the country.

      Remote / hybrid working is the key to rebalancing life across the entire country. 

      Government needs to have a backbone and stand up to private interests.

      The only thing preventing it is there would be a loss of value in urban spaces (back to a reasonable level) moving to the regions, and big landlords and business can’t tolerate that loss of value. 

    11. Irishpintsman on

      Delaying most public infrastructure jobs everywhere for the past few decades would have helped ease the burden on needing a quick fix.

      The commuter belt has been growing massive during this time and Government has ignored the impact that would have on already inadequate public transportation. Granted the Luas (albeit only for Dublin) has been a success but they should be looking at that success as a catalyst to do more and not sit on their holes doing fuck all.

      I’ve tried nothing and I’m all out of ideas as usual.

    12. VanillaCommercial394 on

      My maps for the first time ever suggested I went through the city centre instead of the M5O this week

    13. Brutus_021 on

      Encourage working from home and get started on the infrastructure works for rail & trams!

    14. Medium-Plan2987 on

      how is this Gammon the minister for transport after failing so bad as Minister for Housing

    15. MiddleAgedMoan on

      The country is awash with problems for which there is no quick fix solution, housing, health, transport.

      Is there anyone in any government department with a bit of foresight?

    18. wolf101123 on

      Build another orbital motorway from Naas to Drogheda and the eastern bypass from Sandyford to the Port Tunnel. In addition to N11, N7 and M1 upgrades. This combined with the Metro build and Dart extensions is the only way to get us out of this mess. 
      There needs to be a generational investment in transport infrastructure so Dublin and the surrounding counties can continue to grow.

    19. stuyboi888 on

      Ye mist have known it was an issue years ago though. Was a problem long before COVID.

      But I suppose traffic is a minor issue when someone is driving you everywhere because politicians sure as shit don’t take the bus

    20. jacksqualk on

      Of course, because you fucked it up by over loading Dubling with houses, apartments and industrial units.
      The M50 isn’t the problem, it’s the infrastructure around it.

      ‘Now we can’t fix it’. Suprise suprise

    21. NocturneFogg on

      We’ve been saying we need public transport for years and we’ve built as much as we might have needed in 1987….

      *ALL* of this is completely foreseeable – it’s a mixture of government incompetence, agonisingly slow processes, appalling planning and constantly compounded by NIMBYism and contrarianism.

      You can’t fix a clogged urban distributor motorway by adding more lanes at this point. There isn’t anywhere for the traffic to flow to.

      Dublin has way exceeded the stage where it can run as a car-based urban area. There isn’t any possibility of road capacity solving this. You just can’t put that many cars into a network of urban streets. That why every European city, including plenty of smaller ones, have high capacity metro systems, tramways, light rail, guided busses etc etc etc. and also why the focus more of their housing in the urban core.

      An old European city also cannot use the development patterns of a U.S. city built on the Great Plains as a car dependent grid system – Irish cities don’t fit that pattern at all.

      We seem to have no plan in Dublin, Cork, or anywhere else about how these cities scale.

    22. oddun on

      They need to build massive car parks well outside the city beyond the M50, and a world class park and ride system.

      I’d to be in the city yesterday for work for the first time in months and it’s a complete disaster trying to get around in a car even outside of rush hour.

      Fully aware I’m part of the traffic problem too, before anyone chirps. I don’t want to be.

    23. RobotIcHead on

      The issues with the M50 have obvious for years, same with housing. Government officials, minister and journalists seem to constantly surprised that stuff that has only just been maintained is suddenly causing trouble. We are constantly behind the ball on so many issues. They don’t even know go about tackling them.

    24. yourbluejumper on

      I travel on the M50 5 days now. The rest of the team are based on India. Absolute waste when I can do the same from home

    25. Future_Jackfruit5360 on

      I am starting to think COVID was a dream because we fucking solved the problem already.

      Anyway I won’t reply for the next 4 hours because I have to drive from dundrum to swords 🙄🙄

    26. isogaymer on

      About a decade ago we were told the homelessness/housing crisis couldn’t be solved overnight. A decade later the situation is worse than it has ever been. The issues with the M50 are not new, are not a surprise, and were well signposted to anyone paying attention.

    27. Fickle_Definition351 on

      If only there was some kind of fully-approved, shovel-ready rapid transit project between Hazelhatch and the city centre…

      Minister postpones DART+ by five years, and then a week later says there’s no solution to traffic. Just taking the piss

    28. circuitocorto on

      Who could have thought that building a country like US would have caused to have the same exact problems? Low density, new houses without local shops or schools, no local businesses but big offices concentrated tens of km from people’s homes,… 

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