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FOUR POPULAR STREETS in the south of the city centre are to be pedestrianised from today to facilitate outdoor dining.
From today, the following four streets will be either traffic-free, or have sections of them traffic-free every day after 11am:
The decision to carry out these works was made following successful ‘weekend pedestrianisation trials‘ that took place over six weekends during the months of July and August last year.
An online survey conducted by Dublin City Council into the trials received 1,588 responses, with 95% of respondents in favour of permanently pedestrianising the streets.
The plans for pedestrianising the streets were also issued for consultation last November and 97% of respondents were in favour.
Pre-Covid, in March 2020 there were 34 on-street car parking spaces on these streets. Once this pedestrianisation occurs, there will be no car parking spaces on these streets, Dublin City Council said.
There were five disabled bays on these streets, which have been relocated:
There will also be traffic management on site for the first week as people get used to the changes. Temporary material, such as bollards with planters, is due to arrive soon.
Dublin City Council said that it’s working on plans to increase pedestrian and dining space in other parts of the capital, and will issue further information on this later.
Outdoor dining is set to be permitted from 7 June as Covid restrictions ease.
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Great if we get good weather
@Damian Ryan: So not great then
@Damian Ryan: we’ll all need a jab for pneumonia and hypothermia by the end of it
@Damian Ryan: harden up ffs !
Why let weather totally dictate your choices?
Buy an umbrella / appropriate clothing if you’re afraid of a bit of drizzle
@Damian Ryan: No such thing as bad weather, only bad clothing choices
@Damian Ryan: it actually doesn’t rain much in Dublin, might not be sunny much but should be fine for outdoor dining
@UK Hurling Bloke: yes.. fur-lined knickers over a wetsuit
Great to see, a couple on the northside be good too
@Bopper Bops Holland: Capel Street is to be added to the list of streets
Hopefully it works well and gives the hospitality businesses some well needed and deserved help in getting back up and running and making a living.
They will certainly need coverings do and heaters.
@Jess Delahunt: Well said. Great to see a positive comment rather than all the negativity that lurks here all the time. Give me a nice point of Guinness some good company and if the weather is too bad I’ll wait till the next day……..
Pedestrianised”.. if you’re going to do it, do it right.
The platforms they built are not for for purpose. The plan is half arsed. DCC could have pedestrianised correctly and still allowed for access before 11am.
Unfortunately knowing Dublin city Council this will become permanent just like the temporary closing of Suffolk Street and others and the city will come to a grinding halt when traffic levels are back to normal.
@Brian Tracy: I hate to break it to you, but the city was already grinding to halt before any of this.
@Brian Tracy: Good. These 4 are tight streets that are mostly one-way, and can barely fit a car up them on a busy evening generally. Dame Court isn’t even a through-street. Having cars going through them makes no sense. Cars can’t stop/park on most of them either. Pedestrianisation makes total sense, and any business on those streets should be welcoming the footfall, as cars taking up most of the space and driving past them are of no use to them.
“An online survey conducted by Dublin City Council into the trials received 1,588 responses, with 95% of respondents in favour of permanently pedestrianising the streets.
The plans for pedestrianising the streets were also issued for consultation last November and 97% of respondents were in favour.”
Thats great, now all ya need is to have some good coverings, heaters and maybe an aul sun dance and we are in business lads!!!!!
@Michael Healy: One of the streets in Cork put coverings up. Heard it worked very well.
@TL55: ya they are doing the same here in galway and looks like a good job, so fingers crossed it works out for them
@Michael Healy: yeah, good luck with the coverings with those Galway Bay gusts!
Love this idea and hopefully they improve on this in the coming years and we have it as a permanent feature of our summers.
Would also like to add it is nice the councils are using aesthetically pleasing barriers, I like the white picket fences and flower planters. It is a huge improvement on the dreay drab grey metal barriers.
Out door piddle up more like.
Drury Street Car Park is Overground not Underground.
Underground, overground wombling free…
@Gavin Tobin: isn’t there an underground car park on the other end ( existing onto Wicklow street)
Can they be toiletised as well as pedestrianised please?
@Liz O’Neill: Al fresco toilets exist on Dublin streets already I think..
Some of us remember the way Temple Bar used to be. Effectively the streets were an open bar where you just went into which ever bar had less people in it at that moment. Then you went back out onto the street. Some great summer nights in my youth were spent like that.
@Craic_a_tower: yeah the people who moved on to the 1m euro apartments in temple bar, moaned about the noise and stopped that.
Love this. Another bonus is that Rory Cowan’s head must explode every time he reads about it
It is pouring rain and freezing cold
Seems like Anne Street is the only pedestrianised Street, the rest are open to traffic. Strange headline.
“Pre-covid, in March [...]“, I don’t think anyone could reasonable state that that was pre-covid.
@David Stapleton: March 2020 was pre-covid in this country realistically. There were no restrictions in place & the first case in Ireland was only identified on the 29th Feb.
South William St pedestrianisation length is 38 metres, laterally.
Laughable !
They are not pedestrianised and they are dangerous for a lot of people. But hey ho, so what it sounds cool.
Er, aren’t all these streets half pedestrianised anyway? AND impassable when busy, the whole area around Georges st. should be car free. Pretty weak, think bigger petrified politicians!!
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