Hmm. It’s counter-intuitive, perhaps, and yet it has been proven to work. Any chance of it being piloted in ireland? Rip out the traffic lights and railings. Our streets are better without them Drivers and pedestrians negotiating shared space is shown to cut accidents and traffic, yet flat-earth planners won’t believe it Simon Jenkins The [...]
It used to be Ireland which aped the worst ideas of the US, five years after those same ideas had fallen from fashion and shown to be useless and a waste of money. Now it’s the EU’s turn. The EU is to consider introducing automated border-crossing facilities within the EU for EU citizens and the [...]
What exactly are we reforming in this treaty? (The Lisbon Reform Treaty). Vincent Browne in The Sunday Business Post gives a refreshingly precise answer. I’ve good reason to be pro-European. In fact I’ve many good reasons, and I am all for the European project; but it appears that our mainstream politicians are being profoundly undemocratic [...]
Re the dreary turf war between Luas and Irish Rail over Broadstone, which according to today’s Irish Times Luas and the RPA have won (sub. required), what a pity there isn’t the imagination in Dublin that the Brazilian city of Curtiba was fortunate enough to have in the person of Jaime Lerner. With maverick flair [...]