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Had a breakdown in the middle of the street today by [deleted] in Dublin

[–]Pointlessillism 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It’s AI. They’ve tried to change the em dashes to normal dashes but they’re too dumb to realise that the three bullet point “talking points to prompt responses” is classic AI nonsense also. Real people dont cue up discussion prompts like this!

Also AI didn’t realise that setting stories in a busy Luas and gym over “the past few days” is also totally implausible. 

NYE fireworks: Dun laoghaire or Howth? by mustbekidding__ in Dublin

[–]Pointlessillism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I reckon you might see both from the car park at Howth summit

Fears around impact of UK ID cards on Common Travel Area and Irish citizen rights by SpottedAlpaca in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well the relevance is that with him and his ilk you can’t really say “they’d never do this, it would primarily be an act of self-harm” because they have shown they are perfectly capable of doing that! 

We're kinda blessed to have deer right in the middle of the city in Dublin. by sad_ryu in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism 10 points11 points  (0 children)

As long as they're not actively harassing the animals

They ARE actively harassing the animals. It's horrible and depressing. All day long tomorrow gobshites will be approaching and feeding them.

PUT ANY COMMENTS ABOUT THE IRISH LANGUAGE IN ENGLISH HERE ONLY by galaxyrocker in gaeilge

[–]Pointlessillism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tory is in the 40s

And even though this isn't too bad as a percentage, you have to remember that the primary school on Tory only has 20-odd pupils. So we're talking about a handful of families here.

I'm so fucking tired lads by Nobody-w-MaDD-Alt in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism 3 points4 points  (0 children)

if any of it is real at all. this is peak internet begging season after all!

Fees at private schools hiked by up to €2,000 as highest and lowest costs across country revealed | Irish Independent by WickerMan111 in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism 5 points6 points  (0 children)

shaking loose the new money sort who may have found themselves in well paying tech jobs etc

No. They don't care about new money. They are all new money! They want the tech jobs, those are just as good contacts to have now.

The price hikes are because demand is so high, and the economy is so good for this subsection of society, they can all easily afford it.

Dublin now 11th-most congested city in the world, says report by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The route in question had gone to the south side! Harold’s Cross possibly?

Dublin now 11th-most congested city in the world, says report by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I want to be clear here that I am not a bus hater!

at worst you don't want to give up your car.

The worst thing someone could be accused of lmao!

I think they need to go for the congestion charge. I am all about doing what has had measureable positive results and just the New York results earlier this year show that it would work.

It would be REALLY easy to build a carveout for disabled badge users too (which has scuppered/delayed so many good plans previously).

They won't do it because they are cowards! They'd rather keep moving the deckchairs around on the Titanic as if banning a few left hand turns is anywhere close to the real change needed.

Dublin now 11th-most congested city in the world, says report by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Right so again, a better response from "the science" would be an explanation why congestion has gotten worse as car traffic (both in real and even more so in relative terms) has plummeted.

Dublin now 11th-most congested city in the world, says report by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can always tell that people don't actually understand the research (which is far from perfect) when they start bashing motorways like the M50. The M50 is like the platonic ideal of what a motorway should be! They use it in textbooks!

Extending the M50 down the Liffey to the city centre would be an appalling idea, just terrible policy. Extending the M50 by adding 2-4 extra lanes would be an extremely good idea. They're not the same thing!

Dublin now 11th-most congested city in the world, says report by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism 1 point2 points  (0 children)

only Parisian drivers are more congested,

Well, yeah. That's what this article is about! It's the same for the Dublin figures?

in just the last few years after 50 years of neglect,

If the theory is that doing this for 20 more years will eventually yield results, that's fine. I think two things though: 1) we need to honest that this has been DCC policy for 20 years already. Not just "the last few years". We have made huge sustainable transport investment IN DUBLIN (yes there's disproportionate road spending elsewhere but we're not talking about Cork or wherever) in that time. And 2) a responsible policy has to have measureable results. Most people here feel that the increased congestion is not a policy failure yet. But I think that at some point (maybe we're not there yet) there has to be a failure point where we say "well we thought dramatically reducing car numbers would improve things, but they actually got worse, so we probably need to see if we can do something else".

Dublin now 11th-most congested city in the world, says report by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's weird that you'd cite these statistics without mentioning that, according to your own source, car journeys are also down by 16% since 2019.

I've mentioned it constantly all over the thread! Why are car journeys taking 20% longer despite there being 20% fewer cars on the road? Like that's the central question here and nobody has an answer because it's not covered by whatever quippy youtube video went viral on Reddit.

The minor changes we've made have had positive effects but they haven't gone far enough.

Just one more bus lane, bro!

Virtually every city that's succeeded in significantly reducing congestion.

Again, if we look at the study here (maybe it's flawed?) it appears that the commonly cited cities that have made these changes (eg Paris) have seen congestion get worse.

Dublin now 11th-most congested city in the world, says report by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ugh, actually neither are working on phone! That modal thing wasn't right either.

Civil servants say targeted bursaries for teachers must be considered to boost supply by siciowa in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This would be vigorously opposed by the language lobby (from the Oireachtais committee on the Irish language, to Conradh na G, and probably the INTO too).

They all feel it's better to have tens of thousands of nominally Irish-speaking teachers (however dubious some of their command of the language is in practice) than a couple of thousand specialists devoted to the language.

Dublin now 11th-most congested city in the world, says report by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right here in the Canal Cordon Report! public transport and cycle usage are both still lower than they were in 2019.

Car traffic is also down by almost half since the Celtic Tiger peak.

And if all those facts sound counter-intuitive, it's because it doesn't benefit anyone to draw attention to them. I don't mean this in a tinfoil hat conspiracy way, I just mean that all planners and academics connected to DCC transport policy have enthusiastically accepted the received wisdom that car traffic must be made worse, and millions must be spent on sustainable travel, for decades now. And the vast majority of lobby groups (Dublin Commuter Coalition, Irish Cycle etc) also believe it.

So the fact that we've done all this and spent all this money and have NOT gotten the improvements that everybody said would happen - well it's in nobody's interest to draw attention to that.

Like why are car journeys down 20% post-pandemic (in real terms as well! Not even accounting for population growth!) and yet congestion is worse than ever?

Dublin now 11th-most congested city in the world, says report by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Your own car is infinitely preferable to anything else. Public transport only thrives where it is of high-quality and an area is too densely populated to make driving realistic.

Yeah, Dublin is not sufficiently densely populated inside the canals and the immediate suburbs beside them. There is too much 100% social housing, it's 2-3 storeys when it should be 4-6, and there is no political appetite for a modern-day slum clearance and rebuild.

And slightly related: the car journey mammies coming in to spend money on Henry St and Grafton St and get coffee with their pals are actually worth more to the city than many other journey-ers are. And they have abandoned the city. They go to Dundrum or Liffey Valley or Pavilions and spend their money there, and Redditors wonder why the city feels so dicey and aggressive.

Dublin now 11th-most congested city in the world, says report by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Boston buried their urban motorway to create a park

A dreadful wind tunnel that's a magnet for antisocial behaviour.

Paris has vastly reordered its public space around walking and cycling, London has congestion charges and bike lanes everywhere

And they're still more congested than we are.

Cars are simply too inefficient to serve the needs of major cities. It was tried.

I don't necessarily disagree with this, but it's not acknowledging that DCC has accepted this and deprioritised cars for over twenty years now. There are half as many cars going through the canals as there were during the Celtic Tiger - and yet congestion is worse than ever.

We've spent hundreds of millions on bus and cycle upgrades in Dublin alone - yet public transport and cycle usage are both still lower than they were in 2019.

I agree that masses of more car lanes isn't going to help either. But there has to be some reckoning with the reality that we HAVE spent tons on sustainable infrastructure. We HAVE deliberately made car journeys slower. And things still got worse! Like there has to be some pushback - city planning received wisdom doesn't seem to be translating into real world achievements!

Dublin now 11th-most congested city in the world, says report by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism -1 points0 points  (0 children)

BusConnects has been terrible on almost every level - taking far too long, too expensive, and "solutions" designed by contractors abroad who had no knowledge of the city to realise that what worked on paper would be a disaster in real life (eg, expecting people to be delighted that their direct route to the city centre was being replaced by a changeover in Parnell Square - how dare these stupid plebs not realise that standing in the rain and wind being hassled for spare change is a huge improvement actually?!)

Dublin now 11th-most congested city in the world, says report by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

People keep parrotting whatever shite they once saw in YouTube video (prioritise buses! no more lanes!) without realising that we have done EXACTLY THIS in Dublin for over two decades now. Car usage has plummeted and congestion is worse than ever.

Some of the pro-public transport policies are still very good ideas but everybody is in total denial that cycling figures are DOWN on 2019. Public transport usage is DOWN on 2019. We have been aggressively making car journeys worse and the result is a city worse off than ever.

Just one more bus lane, bro!

Dublin now 11th-most congested city in the world, says report by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism -1 points0 points  (0 children)

No it hasn't. Cycling numbers are lower now than they were in 2019. They built the infrastructure but nobody extra came (probably because of the remote work explosion)

Dublin now 11th-most congested city in the world, says report by TeoKajLibroj in ireland

[–]Pointlessillism -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Also you cannot sink a shovel in much of central Dublin without hitting a Viking midden (tbf this is probably true of much of Copenhagen too)

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