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Rip out the traffic lights and railings

February 29th, 2008 at 10:14 pm » Comments (0)

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 Guardian



EU proposes biometric border clampdown

February 14th, 2008 at 11:15 am » Comments (0)

The EU is to consider introducing automated border-crossing facilities within the EU for EU citizens and the electronic recording of entry and exit dates of third-country nationals in and out of the Schengen area.
It used to be Ireland which aped the worst ideas of the US, five years after those same ideas had fallen from [...]



What exactly are we reforming in this treaty? (the Lisbon Reform Treaty)

February 10th, 2008 at 12:36 pm » Comments (2)

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 [...]



The Reinvention of Urban Dublin…? with possibly a little help from Jaime Lerner?

February 6th, 2008 at 10:12 pm » Comments (0)

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 [...]