Reply To: Major Traffic Flow Changes for St Stephen’s Green

A right-hand turn onto Merrion Row would entail fairly major work in removing that island outside the BOI on the corner of Merrion Row and that sculpture and a substantial bicycle park.
Still, there always seems to be a lot of excess capacity on Green East, surely enough to accomodate two-way flow other than the bus lane – hence allowing the Cuffe-Merrion Row link?

Sorry I said it was two-way earlier, it was all on Pat Kenny on Monday morning – I was very sleepy. On Tuesday the week before he was talking to Frank Allen of the RPA and suggested that Green West was going to be hell when finished. And so this Monday Keegan came on and it was put to him that the CC were listening to the programme, and decided (perhaps on the Thursday as Sue says) that they alter the traffic flow as a result. Nothing but a nervous laugh from Keegan!
I’ve read the Sunday Times since – they’ve got it right.

This should pounced upon as the long-needed opportunity to widen the pavements on Green North around Grafton St – whatever about traffic congestion, pedestrian congestion should be considered for once too – this area is chaos at the rush hours, similar to Nassau St.
They’re interesting figures about the numbers coming from Cuffe to Merrion and Dawson etc – it’s extraordinary how one route alone can contribute to much traffic, like the left turn at the bottom of Dawson St resulting in the clogging up of O’ Connell St not too long ago.