Il finanziamento della corsia per cicli di città di Dublino è stato tagliato di € 16 milioni
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2025/02/12/dublin-city-cycle-lane-funding-slashed-by-16m/
di Leavser1
Il finanziamento della corsia per cicli di città di Dublino è stato tagliato di € 16 milioni
https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dublin/2025/02/12/dublin-city-cycle-lane-funding-slashed-by-16m/
di Leavser1
8 commenti
Makes no sense. Should be encouraging this in towns
I don’t blame them cutting the budget, €16m less wasted on plastic bollards. Road surface quality is shocking across the whole city, glass and dirt everywhere, topped off with zero enforcement!
DLR CC and SDCC are putting a decent effort into proper segregated cycle infrastructure at least, it’s a shame DCC hasn’t improved the main cycling corridors at all over the last 10 years.
Gotta reduce those emissions. Proceeds to make it more difficult to use alternative modes of transportation
Well the electorate* voted for this so I guess it’s to be expected.
**the people that don’t frequent* r/ireland
Meanwhile local authorities are implementing extremely restrictive measures around parking because they want less people driving, while at the same time public transport is in shambles and now this.
A few residents of my estate complained to our local councillor about the parking situation and she was telling us if you think it’s bad here, apparently what’s happening in Citywest is that SDCC have only made a limited number of parking permits available in the area. So you have homeowners applying for parking permits, getting denied and then getting clamped outside their houses because the council won’t issue them a permit to park outside their own homes. The deck is so stacked against decent, normal people in this country it’s honestly sickening.
Probably The trump effect 😆
I do somewhat buy the NTA’s line that this is more a reflection of where certain major projects are at in their lifecycles. But I also think that illustrates part of the problem for DCC.
They have not been going for small scale stuff, they have had serious problems with scope creep in their projects. They have had to abandon a number of projects, or indefinitely delay. They had a whole cycle lane designed and consulted on for Merrion St in front of the Dáil that they’ve dropped now after spending thousands on since they want to wait until after the City Centre Transport Plan is finished.
They aren’t doing cheap road reallocation projects since those are politically difficult. So they end up doing expensive large scale projects that take years, and have often failed. Even where they do build them they often are shit about it, like leaving the new quay cycle lanes finished for about three months before opening them.
This is absolutely crazy. Dublin is already a nightmare to cycle in, this will only make it worse. Cycling infrastructure is obviously one of the most cost effective form of public infrastructure you can invest in, by far. Transportation, Pollution, Tourism, Health and even Happiness are all greatly improved with this form of spending. [https://cyclingsolutions.info/cost-benefit-of-cycling-infrastructure/](https://cyclingsolutions.info/cost-benefit-of-cycling-infrastructure/)
€16m doesn’t seem like a lot in terms of government spending. I genuinely wonder is this an appeasement to short sighted, conservative motorist who have no interest in sharing the road, or being on any other form of transport other than the inside of their car. I know the fairly active automotive lobbyists will be happy with this.