Dublino si è classificata come la quarta città più percorribile al mondo 🌍🚶

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It certainly is. Within the City boundaries there really isn’t any spot I can think of where you couldn’t walk to shops, restaurants, etc. There’s decent footpaths, street lighting, pedestrian crossings and very few barriers blocking access from A to B. Transit is a different story but lots of cities can be a complete pain in the hole to traverse by foot. Of course there’ll be a load of gobshites piling in moaning that they can’t walk from their hovel in Dunboyne to their office in Sandymount.

I mean you really can walk anywhere in Dublin City also with the commercial centre being so small everything is kind of within a max 20 minute walk. Unfortunately though walking is sometimes the only option since the luas only going two directions and there’s no metro

That’s completely fair. I live on the edge of D1 and D3 and can walk basically anywhere in town in 25 to 60 mins. And I do quite often too. Some parts aren’t exactly nice to walk through with the dog shit everywhere but it’s mostly very walkable

Dublin is really a collection of little villages.

I’ve noticed this eve more recently. Each of the those villages is lovely and walkable.

If we had an elected mayor with powers to push better coordination with the council it would be even more awesome.

probably because it’s so small compared

Which makes it all the more of a shame the over reliance on cars to make simple journeys.

The definition of “walkability” here clearly differs from mine. Yes, footpaths are everywhere, but pedestrian priority is severely lacking. Pedestrian crosswalks were only legally recognised last year, whereas many European cities allow continuous walking without interruption—Kraków, for example, isn’t even on this list despite its excellent walkability. There, staying outside the city centre can mean a quicker walk in, whereas car-dominated cities like Rome or Dublin force long walks regardless, due to frequent traffic lights and a lack of pedestrian priority.

Prague is much more walkable than Dublin, I’ve noticed Dublnn is really good for bikes but everything is much closer together in Prague i feel like

The world?

I think part of our ranking is that we have lots of smaller schools and smaller hospitals. That makes things more walkable without necessarily making things better for people. We only got our first trauma hospital in 2021 (the Mater) which doesn’t have a Neurosurgical centre. Having medium sized hospitals is good for communication between medical teams, but makes it harder to have all specialities under one roof. Rotterdam for example has the Erasmus centre which is an enormous hospital catering to a population similar to Dublin. 

Hospitals being on this list is a bit silly. Accessibilty to people who cannot walk is more important to hospitals than the proximity to people who can walk. 

Similarly I imagine that students who are less interested in traditional routes are left out by Irelands education set up. Bigger schools could offer a greater focus on subjects like design, engineering and computer science (bear in mind I’m over 10 years out incase those are mainstream now). I like that for most people schools are easy to get to, even if the cost is smaller schools, with fewer subjects offered.

All of this is to say that walkability for Ireland should focus on access to GPs, walking safety, pedestrian prioritisation, quality/quantity of shops. Not proximity to hospitals and schools that only a minority of the population frequently use.

Great for walking, terrible for driving.

Er, so this is a statement that out public transport sucks, right?

It’s true. The buses don’t work in Dublin.

As if there’s any other option.

Also while walking there is a great chance to be smacked by the youth gangs

If you live in the city centre, yes, which is probably what this measured (‘city limits’). Less so in the rest of it.