Zwei Abschnitte des geplanten Greenway im Süden Dublins wurden fallen gelassen

>“Officials said the public consultation revealed some 44 per cent of responses were in favour of the project, with 48 per cent against. A further seven per cent were in favour of the project with modifications, giving a slight majority, 51 per cent, in favour of the overall scheme, officials said. “

This is what „public consultations“ mean in practice. People who own land have concentrated organised representation and the public benefits are diffuse and lack representation. This is why national level control is important.

I wonder what’s the overlap of people opposing it and people complaining about traffic being shit

>Residents of The Park housing estate had questioned whether it was a good idea to bring many more people into their quiet residential area

Of course. The Tesco and the school inside the estate are just for their own private use as well I suppose,

Copying & pasting my previous comment on this topic:

I saw a really interesting documentary on how they turned Copenhagen into a „cycling city.“ They have more average days of rain than Dublin.

We have pretty mild weather overall. I cycle to work, and as long as you have the right gear, it’s grand 99% of the time.

People would deal with the weather if it was faster and safer to cycle, and maybe more people outside Dublin would too.

They went from something like 5% of people commuting by bike to 50%.

Copenhagen claims title as world’s most bicycle-friendly city | Copenhagen Convention Bureau https://www.wonderfulcopenhagen.com/convention-bureau/news-room/copenhagen-claims-title-worlds-most-bicycle-friendly-city

The issue that I see in Ireland is that collectively, we want better public transport, but in order to do that, a number of individuals will be negatively impacted. Our culture of individuals objecting to things and preventing or holding up change for decades is rife.

The buses can’t come on time because of all the car traffic. The bus connects plan was to make a lot of streets bus-only, and take some space from people’s front gardens to widen streets. Cue, major outcry and objections. You can’t have both, and Irish people don’t want to give up their cars or make any compromise to make it work.

When I moved into my house, all the neighbours had banded together to protest the bus connects plans. I asked if any of them had been to the ***multiple*** community meetings they had set up to explain the plan and solicit feedback. None had been.

I said I supported them (which didn’t make me popular). They were outraged that it would involve making some streets bus only, removal of some trees and CPO of some front gardens. I asked them if they wanted better public transport, they all said yes, but not if it would impact them – as long as it happened elsewhere, it was fine. People are inherently selfish, but unless the government starts overuling NIMBYism, nothing will change.

It’s the same with the health system. A friend of a friend was a consultant hired to implement a new payroll system for hospitals. The consulting firm pulled out of the contract after 100’s of thousands spent on it, as they discovered it couldn’t be done, because Mary works 7/8ths of a job and doesn’t work Tuesdays, Tom was on an old payscale and his contract says he gets 1.2x for working an extra hour etc etc. Unless people are willing to standardise things, which may inconvenience a small number of people, nothing can be fixed and scaled.

Every time I see protests to large apartment developments, I point out that there are 3 large apartment blocks that have gone up near me in the last few years. The result has been a plethora of new lovely cafes and shops around the area. I love it!

Denmark had a more „collective good“ mindset than Ireland. It’s selfish individuals holding up progress.

The first areas of the city to get congestion charges should be the areas where objections to public and active transport infrastructure is strongest.

We need some stick to go with this carrot.