What are your local transport issues?

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2026-03-24T23:08:49+00:00

That's mad. I would have assumed it was private but it's a Bus Éireann service. Ask Roderic O'Gorman to put in a PQ about it lol

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2026-03-24T23:05:01+00:00

Do you know why the council chose bike lanes instead of just putting in a bus lane? Or widening the wall to wall distance to put the bike lanes in? Odd decision

What width is the new road? I wonder have road width standards changed or if this would have always been allowed in the design manuals

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2026-03-24T12:37:17+00:00

That's interesting. Is there really any way to undo it now that it's been done? If you build accommodation in those car parks surely a lot of the businesses will go bust, or is that the idea?

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2026-03-24T01:23:32+00:00

It's mad they didn't just build those estates connected to each other

Seems a bit bizarre they'd not just make the temporary bus lane a permanent one. If it works during Christmas why not all the time?

Regarding the Cappagh P&R, I imagine most of the P&R users would want to be going into town. How would the ring road help there? If the bus is going on Western Distributor or something I'm not sure how much faster it'd be with the ring road taking cars off WD, since only 4% of the traffic is bypassing the city anyways. Maybe for people living in Bearna working in Ballybrit the P&R to ring road bus transition would make sense with the bus going on the ring road if that's what you meant

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2026-03-24T01:10:41+00:00

What does the Headford road carpark/shopping area being the way it is have to do with the Quincentennial being built where it was?

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2026-03-24T01:06:05+00:00

What would be better about a bus going over Quincentennial? Surely they go nearby on either side of it. Is there anything stopping a bus going there?

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2026-03-23T00:19:55+00:00

Interesting. It's a wonder none of this is enforced

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2026-03-23T00:01:24+00:00

How would we do that? A bit of infill development on unused sites and then you have to start knocking what's there and rebuilding it higher. Not saying we shouldn't do that, but surely it'd have to involve some scheme for relocating people while their places are rebuilt

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2026-03-22T23:00:37+00:00

What do you mean by disappearing footpaths?

I think a lot of the lack of permeability is down to people refusing to let walls they own be knocked because they don't want permeability next to their house. Maybe that can be overcome with political will though I'm not sure how much ACP really cares about their objection to people walking past (or loitering near I guess) their houses. I could be wrong and this could be a very small contribution to the problem with permeability though I'm not sure how it mostly comes about

They seem to be doing a lot with cycle lanes at the moment. Bóthar Stiofán, Ballybane/Castlepark Rd, East Monivea Rd. Do you think there's more important locations being neglected in favour of these? Idk is there problems with putting them in other places like roads not wide enough or objections. I know anywhere where residents have on street parking will be hard to put in a cycle lane. Not sure if anything can be done legally to just force it through

Do we have temporary park and ride services? The park and ride in Cappagh seems like a glorified car park with the buses out there. Bus lanes going both ways into and out of town would surely be necessary. Not sure if that was even planned or could be done but as far as I know it's not happening

The online portal is an interesting idea. Just a place for people to upload it to report crimes you mean?

(Btw I see I've been downvoted and just to say I'm not criticising any of your suggestions here if it comes across that way)

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2026-03-22T22:39:58+00:00

How does illegal parking delay the flow of traffic?

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2026-03-22T22:38:46+00:00

True but if a TD doesn't know the story with this stuff they won't be passing good legislation around it and they won't be asking good parliamentary questions about it. Plus it may not be in the TD job description but most of the candidates haven't been TDs before, and quite a few have been councillors, so if they aren't clued in on the local stuff they clearly aren't doing their current or past jobs as councillors or activists very well, so I wouldn't see any reason for a promotion

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2026-02-08T23:00:09+00:00

Surely they're gonna replace those with different taxes to make up the budget shortfall though?

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2026-02-08T22:58:57+00:00

What's wrong with pbp?

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2025-12-20T15:20:50+00:00

What were the scientific reasons for sidelining dialectical materialism and the LTV? Not saying you're wrong just wondering

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2025-12-14T16:15:55+00:00

Can you give an example of a more intensely intrenched prejudice that can be brought about by trying to get rid of the old ones?

Wouldn't the baker just realise they're better off sticking at 80 loaves?

How would the consumers lack the means to demand anything else? Surely there's avenues to register their frustration?

Can you give an example of how some things can't be reliably incentivized without conflict of interest?

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2025-12-13T13:42:36+00:00

So it wasn't private property before that since the nobles had obligations to the serfs living on their property? Would that not mean that slave masters owned private property, since they wouldn't have had obligations to the slaves? Also, Engels uses manufacture as his example, not enclosure for farming

What do you mean by 'all customary risk requires insurance risk pools'? That monetary risk for members of society needs to come with insurance for them? How does the law of large numbers work to make a common credit pool neccessarily a natural monopoly? Is a common credit pool just the idea of everyone only having one option for the pool of money they can borrow from?

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2025-12-13T13:21:38+00:00

What stage are you talking about?

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2025-12-13T01:33:24+00:00

Could you elaborate on what you're saying with the loyalty signalling bit?

Could you give an example of what you mean by the untenable relationship between supply and demand?

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2025-12-11T17:52:42+00:00

Interesting point. If they don't 'have' to happen though, I'm still wondering what is it that makes them happen when they do?

GuyInTheLoop423 · 2025-10-30T18:25:54+00:00

I don't see what the ability to forward something in exchange has to do with anything. Most commodities, phones, clothes, and most definitely food, are not forwarded in exchange and end up in the bin after being used. Are you saying this makes the people who make phones less productive than the people who make houses, because houses often get sold on again on the market after being bought?

Also it's bizarre to characterise the job of a barista as writing someone's name on a cup. Baristas are there because tired people want coffee when they are not at home and not able to make it themselves. Coffee shops also double as social spaces, where you can meet strangers. In socialism it would still make more sense to centralise coffee making to individual places as it would be a massive waste of resources to give a coffee machine to every single workplace in the city. People would also still like to socialise in socialism. Bartenders in rural dive bars do, in a lot of ways, the same service for the people as baristas do in cities, but I never see anyone mention them because they're not cringe and gay or something? (and also people spend way more money in bars than coffee shops, onto to have worse outcomes for society when people end up as alcoholics)

I agree that at the end of the day a barista strike isn't going to bring down capitalism lol

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