Sir,– One of the objectives of the Dublin city transport plan is to retain private car access to most areas in the city centre for “workplaces and residences and multistorey car parks”. To achieve this, private car journeys from one side of the city to the other need to be diverted onto established routes around the core.
They make up 60 per cent of total private car trips in the congested centre.
David Doran (Letters, July 12th) asks whether routes around the core are practical and viable. The answer is yes.
Even today, before the new transport plan is implemented, it often makes no sense to drive through the city centre to get from one side to the other.
For example, a letter writer (September 23rd, 2023) complained that the transport plan would interfere with the preferred route from the Ranelagh Donnybrook Milltown area to Dublin Airport-Morehampton Road, Merrion Square East, Holles Street, Pearse Street, Gardiner Street, Dorset Street, M1. But for this journey Google Maps already recommends going around the city centre – Herbert Park, Merrion Road, Serpentine Avenue, Tritonville Road, Church Avenue, Sean Moore Road, East Link Bridge, East Wall Road, tunnel, M1.
We have invested in roads for driving around the city centre.
The traffic plan encourages us to use them, and leave the congested centre for cars that need to be there, and other road users. – Yours, etc,
ÉAMONN CONLON,
Shankill,
Dublin 18.
Sir, – Dublin City Council planners’ proposed transport plan is intended to discourage the estimated 60 per cent of motorists “who drive through, rather than to, the city centre”.
While reflecting on the merits of that plan, I began to wonder if there is any possibility that the city officials who ingeniously proposed it now be relocated from Wood Quay to a new office somewhere along my own commuting route around the southern part of the M50? – Yours, etc,
PHILIP WHEATLEY,
Bray,
Co Wicklow.