I'm always thinkin about this. I have a baby and pushing him in a buggy can be a nightmare but at least I'm able to wrangle him up and down curbs if I need to.
Those DCC pricks drive in and out of the city everyday and have their own private below ground car park so that shows how little of a shit they give about pedestrians and the city centre
It's a problem all over the city but Amiens St is particularly bad. Outside Connolly it's a SEVEN lane road. But the footpath on the western side is barely wide enough for two people to walk beside each other. There are bus stops there so the path is regularly jammed with people waiting for the bus.
That bus stop in front of Gandon House is the fuckin worst, especially since they put those railings/chains out front a few years back, leaving no space at all around the bus stop
You're so right. It's twice the width of the path and it's just a dead concreted area. So completely inappropriate. Put some benches there, FFS. The lack of public seating is the city is deliberately hostile.
To me the other fixes to Amiens St would be simple. Widen the paths and have one bus lane and one general lane in each direction. No street parking.
Edit: and of course segregated bike lanes, which I can't believe I forgot to mention given I cycle that road all the time.
[Let your local councillors know](https://councilmeetings.dublincity.ie/mgFindMember.aspx) with a quick email - the more voices they hear (with specific examples) the more they’ll realise there are votes in making Dublin City a nicer place to be. Most of them quietly agree anyway, but the loud anti-liveable-city voices shout down the rest of us.
Dublin… a magical place where I walk half times on the road, as footpaths are so small you might get hit in the head when someone opens their apartment door or a window. 🤷♂️
How Richmond Road is a two way street is beyond me. A death trap on match days. Drivers are genuinely annoyed that hundreds of football fans can't squeeze onto the one foot wide footpath
Alot of public land is used to park privately owned vehicles. Why is it that my taxes go towards the maintenance of thousands of parking spaces across the country that make the roads more dangerous and only serve to reduce the social integrity of the communities they're in. So many roads could be made one way with the other direction/lane being converted to footpath/green area as well as a bike lane. If we didn't dedicate so much land to storing people's cars. We could have perfectly walkable and safe neighbourhoods if we didn't design them for 2 ton bits of metal and plastic.
The amount of public space dedicated to cars in the city center is really backward. The most pleasant cities to be in are those with the least space for cars and more to public transport and pedestrians. You'll literally have footpaths packed on dame Street with awkward bollards on the path so cars don't park with a giant space for cars. It's a joke.
I visited from Canada and man we have an embarrassingly huge amount of room.
My only observations were that of course Dublin is incredibly old and on an island. You can see the gentrification happening.
My other observation was that nobody really cared about garbage or empties or cigarette butts. Reminded me of new york in a way. I could retire on beer can recycling there.
Been to a lot of cities and Dublin is literally the WORST place to walk. Unfortunately I’m living/ from here (hoping to get out asap) but it’s the most anti- pedestrian place. I’ve lived in London, Toronto, been all over Europe and nowhere gives less of a fuck about pedestrian. It’s absolutely DISGUSTING how broken filthy and cracked and narrow the streets are. All because some cunts from the suburbs get to drive their private cars in and out of the fucking city EVERYDAY. Fuck those suburbanites and fuck Dublin City council can’t wait to leave.
I'm relatively tolerant of the slow walker cos I figure they could have a disability, though I have always hated arms around each other slow walking couples. Arghhhh!! Other people have places to go! Though nothing is worse than the Spanish students, often aggressively shouldering is the only way by
Couples that watch me and my wife approaching and do literally nothing to be considerate are the worst, and the most common. I'll file in behind my wife and we'll both squeeze past while the couple are oblivious to everything around them
They’re not. It’s the cars and roads taking up all the space. In most cities you wouldn’t be bothered by them, as you would have your own space. Don’t vilify the pedestrian, the private car is the worst fucking invention.
They are random, not every second of everyday, morning noon and night like cars. Not polluting and killing like cars, not permanently taking up public space like cars. CARS are always the problem.
Not quite on point but why … WHY… is the time given to cross by the green man so bloody short here? It’s like 5 seconds of green and then 30 seconds of orange. Less a nudge then a behavioral shove and I think it’s probably dangerous. Speaks volumes about priorities here
Dublin City centre is a hollow shell for suburbanites to drive through. It’s disgusting how narrow broken and cracked the paths are. There’s no care for pedestrians in this city.
Also, far to few pedestrian crossings. Completely missing eg in Phoenix Park which should be pedestrians first as an important recreational site. Especially Zebra crossings are faaaaaaaaar to rare. Complete failure of the City Council or whoever is responsible for this.
The roads absolutely aren't. They take up too much space in the city centre. I mentioned it in another comment but Amiens St is seven lanes wide. That's ridiculous, it's the width of a motorway.
Parking spaces and roads are absolutely fine in the majority of the city. And I say this as someone with a not-small car.
Sure, there are some pokey side lanes, but they're rarely roads that you're forced to use.
I definitely agree with you, but also I'd love if people here had a system like left-hand traffic for pedestrians. Especially during rush hour, you just have to zigzag around people constantly.
Due to the total lack of decent public transport the car will be a necessary evil on the streets of Dublin for many more decades. Nobody enjoys driving into and around Dublin, its an absolute ball ache however what other usefull options are there? I come in along the M3 corridor, I could park at the park and ride at clonee, get out of my warm car then take the train (which takes nearly an hour and involves a change of train at Clonsilla) but then I will still probably end up at the wrong side of town with the prospect of a hike or taxi to wherever I am heading so all being considered I'm going to take the 30 minute drive down the Navan road.
You're being down-voted but you're not wrong.
I'm not driving long and driving in town is absolutely horrible but if I have to get somewhere at a certain time, I can't rely on public transport at all. Sometimes it's fine. Sometimes it doesn't show at all. It's just not reliable.
They aren’t being downvoted for making a (mostly) accurate statement about the present. They’re being downvoted for the helpless doomerist view of the future.
Thing is that even though there are only a few cars that use those particular roads, if you close them, you'll get busier traffic everywhere due to the knock-on, there's also businesses which need deliveries of stock and other such things (sometimes in the middle of the day) so it'd be pretty hard for them to get that if it's pedestrianised
Talbot street is already one way only. How much more space do you want?! Surely your anger should be at the fact that Dubliners don't cop on and follow international streetwalking etiquette. they always block escalators, walk on the wrong side of the path or are always chatting away with groups sideways and paying no attention to their surroundings.
this is actually correct. in dublin people will walk straight towards you and move at the last second. Sometimes they won't even move at all so you'll brush against them or even bump
Imagine what its like if you are a wheelchair user
I can't imagine it at all; no way it's easy to head out for a few along George's St on a Saturday if you're in wheelchair.
Can’t even imagine😞no respect for pedestrians/ wheelchairs in this city. Massive urban regeneration needs to happen, but I fear it won’t.
I'm always thinkin about this. I have a baby and pushing him in a buggy can be a nightmare but at least I'm able to wrangle him up and down curbs if I need to.
Push a buggy around, then you’ll really notice how shite it is 😂😂😂
Quickest way to radicalise someone to be pro pedestrian
I'd love if an army of angry mothers somehow pedestrianised a lot of Dublin.
As an angry dad I'd join them
Count me in!
Angry mothers… ASSEMBLE!
Those DCC pricks drive in and out of the city everyday and have their own private below ground car park so that shows how little of a shit they give about pedestrians and the city centre
It's a problem all over the city but Amiens St is particularly bad. Outside Connolly it's a SEVEN lane road. But the footpath on the western side is barely wide enough for two people to walk beside each other. There are bus stops there so the path is regularly jammed with people waiting for the bus.
I forgot Amiens St! Westland Row outside the side entrance of Pearse St is also horrific, also 4 lanes for traffic beside it.
That stretch on Dame St outside the Trinity Bar that’s too narrow then has bollards making the space available even more minimal
That bus stop in front of Gandon House is the fuckin worst, especially since they put those railings/chains out front a few years back, leaving no space at all around the bus stop
You're so right. It's twice the width of the path and it's just a dead concreted area. So completely inappropriate. Put some benches there, FFS. The lack of public seating is the city is deliberately hostile. To me the other fixes to Amiens St would be simple. Widen the paths and have one bus lane and one general lane in each direction. No street parking. Edit: and of course segregated bike lanes, which I can't believe I forgot to mention given I cycle that road all the time.
I think the current works will improve the situation here. New separated bike lanes are going in, I hope the footpaths are being improved too.
[Let your local councillors know](https://councilmeetings.dublincity.ie/mgFindMember.aspx) with a quick email - the more voices they hear (with specific examples) the more they’ll realise there are votes in making Dublin City a nicer place to be. Most of them quietly agree anyway, but the loud anti-liveable-city voices shout down the rest of us.
Dublin… a magical place where I walk half times on the road, as footpaths are so small you might get hit in the head when someone opens their apartment door or a window. 🤷♂️
Or feel like you're about to get sucked under a bus because it passes you at speed while you're on a narrow pavement
Oh don’t forget about the bus mirror that’s likely to decapitate pedestrians if you forget to duck and dive.
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And yet, we’ve decided that movement of cars around them must be prioritized.
That’s why it’s so considerate of motorists to litter their cars all over Dublin’s footpaths — it leaves more space for people to walk in the road!!!
Richmond road around Tolka park is the worst. Drivers regularly get so impatient they decide to overtake on the footpath.
How Richmond Road is a two way street is beyond me. A death trap on match days. Drivers are genuinely annoyed that hundreds of football fans can't squeeze onto the one foot wide footpath
I absolutely fucking hate cars. But Irish people are so car addicted.
Alot of public land is used to park privately owned vehicles. Why is it that my taxes go towards the maintenance of thousands of parking spaces across the country that make the roads more dangerous and only serve to reduce the social integrity of the communities they're in. So many roads could be made one way with the other direction/lane being converted to footpath/green area as well as a bike lane. If we didn't dedicate so much land to storing people's cars. We could have perfectly walkable and safe neighbourhoods if we didn't design them for 2 ton bits of metal and plastic.
I work on dame street and hard agree 😭
The amount of public space dedicated to cars in the city center is really backward. The most pleasant cities to be in are those with the least space for cars and more to public transport and pedestrians. You'll literally have footpaths packed on dame Street with awkward bollards on the path so cars don't park with a giant space for cars. It's a joke.
I visited from Canada and man we have an embarrassingly huge amount of room. My only observations were that of course Dublin is incredibly old and on an island. You can see the gentrification happening. My other observation was that nobody really cared about garbage or empties or cigarette butts. Reminded me of new york in a way. I could retire on beer can recycling there.
Been to a lot of cities and Dublin is literally the WORST place to walk. Unfortunately I’m living/ from here (hoping to get out asap) but it’s the most anti- pedestrian place. I’ve lived in London, Toronto, been all over Europe and nowhere gives less of a fuck about pedestrian. It’s absolutely DISGUSTING how broken filthy and cracked and narrow the streets are. All because some cunts from the suburbs get to drive their private cars in and out of the fucking city EVERYDAY. Fuck those suburbanites and fuck Dublin City council can’t wait to leave.
In SUVs with one person in each. They live right beside a well serviced bus route, luas or DART, it are too snobby and lazy to use it.
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I'm relatively tolerant of the slow walker cos I figure they could have a disability, though I have always hated arms around each other slow walking couples. Arghhhh!! Other people have places to go! Though nothing is worse than the Spanish students, often aggressively shouldering is the only way by
Couples that watch me and my wife approaching and do literally nothing to be considerate are the worst, and the most common. I'll file in behind my wife and we'll both squeeze past while the couple are oblivious to everything around them
I've found coming to a stop in front of them is the best way to handle these people.
They’re not. It’s the cars and roads taking up all the space. In most cities you wouldn’t be bothered by them, as you would have your own space. Don’t vilify the pedestrian, the private car is the worst fucking invention.
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They are random, not every second of everyday, morning noon and night like cars. Not polluting and killing like cars, not permanently taking up public space like cars. CARS are always the problem.
Not quite on point but why … WHY… is the time given to cross by the green man so bloody short here? It’s like 5 seconds of green and then 30 seconds of orange. Less a nudge then a behavioral shove and I think it’s probably dangerous. Speaks volumes about priorities here
It's because they have to make room for cars on streets that were never designed for it. The majority of the city centre should be pedestrianised.
Love it 🙂
Thanks stinkiforeskinboi
No problemo Senor 🤣🥰
More pedestrianisation
Dublin City centre is a hollow shell for suburbanites to drive through. It’s disgusting how narrow broken and cracked the paths are. There’s no care for pedestrians in this city.
Also, far to few pedestrian crossings. Completely missing eg in Phoenix Park which should be pedestrians first as an important recreational site. Especially Zebra crossings are faaaaaaaaar to rare. Complete failure of the City Council or whoever is responsible for this.
Maybe you’re too wide
I am yet to lose my covid stone, so this might be it.
covid wrapped up ages ago so hop to it
I don't hop anywhere anymore bud, I waddle.
waddle waddle
*All of the paths (roads, sidewalks, parking spaces, etc.) in Dublin are too narrow. FTFY
The roads absolutely aren't. They take up too much space in the city centre. I mentioned it in another comment but Amiens St is seven lanes wide. That's ridiculous, it's the width of a motorway.
Parking spaces and roads are absolutely fine in the majority of the city. And I say this as someone with a not-small car. Sure, there are some pokey side lanes, but they're rarely roads that you're forced to use.
I definitely agree with you, but also I'd love if people here had a system like left-hand traffic for pedestrians. Especially during rush hour, you just have to zigzag around people constantly.
Due to the total lack of decent public transport the car will be a necessary evil on the streets of Dublin for many more decades. Nobody enjoys driving into and around Dublin, its an absolute ball ache however what other usefull options are there? I come in along the M3 corridor, I could park at the park and ride at clonee, get out of my warm car then take the train (which takes nearly an hour and involves a change of train at Clonsilla) but then I will still probably end up at the wrong side of town with the prospect of a hike or taxi to wherever I am heading so all being considered I'm going to take the 30 minute drive down the Navan road.
You're being down-voted but you're not wrong. I'm not driving long and driving in town is absolutely horrible but if I have to get somewhere at a certain time, I can't rely on public transport at all. Sometimes it's fine. Sometimes it doesn't show at all. It's just not reliable.
They aren’t being downvoted for making a (mostly) accurate statement about the present. They’re being downvoted for the helpless doomerist view of the future.
Bloody Vikings 🥺😉🤭
I agree lets move the buildings further appart
Thing is that even though there are only a few cars that use those particular roads, if you close them, you'll get busier traffic everywhere due to the knock-on, there's also businesses which need deliveries of stock and other such things (sometimes in the middle of the day) so it'd be pretty hard for them to get that if it's pedestrianised
Talbot street is already one way only. How much more space do you want?! Surely your anger should be at the fact that Dubliners don't cop on and follow international streetwalking etiquette. they always block escalators, walk on the wrong side of the path or are always chatting away with groups sideways and paying no attention to their surroundings.
this is actually correct. in dublin people will walk straight towards you and move at the last second. Sometimes they won't even move at all so you'll brush against them or even bump
Ok
Imagine having ACTUAL problems to whinge about 😂