Just three buildings on a 50m section of Dublin Liffey quays will not have direct car access
On the southside the plan does not permit motorists to drive straight from Burgh Quay to Aston Quay. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien Traffic restrictions due to come into effect in Dublin city centre next month have been considerably watered down, with motorists facing fewer curbs on access to the city quays than planned.
The only new restriction on this side of the river would be going straight ahead from Bachelors Walk on to Eden Quay, which will be for public transport only. Private cars are already banned from turning right on to O’Connell Bridge from Bachelors Walk.Cathal Lombard’s Olympics story sounded too good to be true. In the end, it was
However, this will allow motorists to return to Aston Quay at Price’s Lane, which will mean just a very short section of the south quays, about 50m, will be free of private traffic.These changes to the transport plan, which Dublin City Council chief executive Richard Shakespeare referred to as “minor tweaks”, were arrived at after consultation with disabled persons organisations who had, some months ago, raised concerns about their ability to access the quays by private car.
Councillors, the vast majority of whom support the plan, were on Monday outraged, not by the revisions to the plan, but by Ms Higgins’ intervention, and that Mr Shakespeare might consider delaying the plan at the behest of “big business”.
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