HELL NO – This gobshite FF Transport Minister O’Brien wants to charge motorists congestion charges, increase already ridiculously expensive road taxes, and remove parking spaces. Tomorrow the government are meeting to consider all of this and more. FF left it slip two years ago; they plan to introduce a per-km road tax at some point, on top of ever increasing fuel taxes and road tolls.
TELL O’BRIEN WHAT YOU THINK - Call his office (01) 618 3802.
Under instructions, the councils have deliberately increased traffic gridlock to frustrate drivers by swapping car lanes for ridiculous cycle lanes, turning one-way streets into two-way streets, causing longer tailbacks and slowing down flow through traffic light junctions, and pedestrianising streets increases travel times and pressure on surrounding roads, plus the unnecessary lowering of speed limits slows traffic down. This makes cities and towns hard to travel through; thus, in Dublin's case, it forces even more motorists onto the M50 to try to go around Dublin.
Extortionate house prices and rents force people to live farther from work, which puts even more pressure on roads and increases commutes. A large island with 5 million people spread across it is best travelled by car, because public transport networks only really work economically and efficiently in densely populated areas.
Cycling doesn’t work because this island is in the Atlantic; it rains most of the year, it’s windy and cold, and bikes can’t carry kids or cargo safely, so bikes are never going to work. Anyone trying to push cycling here is either a moron or a paid enforcer.
All of this is part of the UN 2030 anti-private-motorist agenda; thus, it is anti-freedom of movement. FFG and the councils that signed up to this have never consulted the public, nor did they ever declare such intent when running for election, because they know the majority of the Irish people don’t want it, so instead they enforce it through ever-increasing increments, creating more traffic problems so that they can enforce their pre-determined solutions.