This is Al Gore’s speech exhorting Americans to change to a carbon-free economy in ten years.
The United States is a very large country. Ireland is a small one. If the United States can do it in ten years, we can do it in five.

We Can Solve It

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

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 [...]

RTÉ reports that congestion is costing Dublin Bus €60m a year out of a total subvention of €80m, according to a submission to the Joint Committee on Transport.
Bill McCamley, SIPTU worker director, said Dublin Bus also paid VAT on its subvention and these factors had to be considered when looking at the subvention.
He told the [...]

During the election, I joined other bloggers in making a wish list to offer the incoming government. This was number one on my list:
The Modest Proposals
1. Transport: (a) Forget about extending the Luas. Bring the bus network up to Luas standard, ie electronic timetables, shelters, and high frequency. Thereby: saving millions, bypassing massive disruption [...]

Recently a glossy leaflet, apparently a Public Consultation document, came through my letterbox. It concerns the proposed Luas City Centre Link - Line BX. You know, the one that should have been built when the original Luas construction drove everyone in Dublin mad, cost hundreds of millions of euro more than it should have, and [...]

The Dublin Community Blog reports that Dublin bus fares have risen again, and comments:
If anyone wants to see how public transport should be done they should travel to Sydney or Melbourne. Quick, easy, and reliable when compared to Dublin. How come they managed to take a penal colony and in 200 years turn it into [...]

Many younger people in Ireland nowadays think that public transport is for the poor, foreign workers, and the old. Or, as some of them put it, for losers.
But perhaps the consequences of this attitude are coming home to roost. David McWilliams, writing about a recent experience which combined the worst of private and public transport, [...]

NB This is a very rough draft. I originally posted this on the alternative party forum, now defunct, and haven’t had time to update it. Hopefully seeing it on a public space again will prompt me to work on it.
DRAFT
Oil, and therefore petrol, will run dry in the next 15-20 years. Earlier estimates [...]