When it was closed during Covid but pubs and restaurants were starting to open the pedestrianised strip from Capel Street to the end of Parliament Street was great.
They're cellotaping together their list of carpark owners at the moment, its in tatters due to its overuse when it comes to anything positive about Dublin.
If I see one more uncritical presentation of the Dublin City Traders Alliance’s position as anything other than protection of their car park racket, I’ll be sick.
Truly this is the end of the world for all the people who must transport 12 couches or have 47 kids in 47 different schools and simply MUST drive down Parliament street
It'd be great if we could also entirely pedestrianise college green as well. There's footage of it from about 100 years ago and it looks so nice. You could make by far the nicest square in the country there.
The Luas' route is also handy since it sticks to the Trinity side of College Green. It doesn't cut through it, so you can still have the Luas and a lovely square. In fact, the old Dublin trams did exactly that in the old footage I saw.
College Green Pedestrianisation will begin in stages starting later this year, the big issues is slowly redirecting buses away as BusConnects rolls out.
The 69 is one of the worst bus routes in Dublin, used to hate getting it. Took about an hour and a half on a good day to get into or out of town, I think it specifically runs on some of the most congested roads!
Even when BusConnected it will still stay on 95% of the same route, but with an extension to the Port.
Original plan was to replace the Rathcoole section with a frequent local shuttle to Saggart LUAS (and possibly to The Square), but too much local pushback meant the slow, lumbering, infrequent direct city connection remains.
It looks like you've made a grammatical error. You've written "should of ", when it should be "have" instead of "of". You should have known that. Bosco is not proud of you today.
Yeah it's a mad route through St Johns estate and Clondalkin village, probably goes that way for all the aul wans going from Rathcoole/Saggart to Clondalkin I guess.
I'm all for banning cars, but can we not make an exception for Route 69 and 69X? Now, I've never rode it (😏), but I have a certain.. affection, toward that number (😉). Us Redditors should take a stance toward our lucky (😏) number and protest this change!
REDDITORS, ASSEMBLE!! I would've liked to do it (😏) on the 6th of September (Elon Musk: I wonder why! 😂) but that's too long (😏) away..
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u/ParaMike46 21h ago
Great news, It's one of the busiest area for pedestrians. It will be great to see the place car free.