Re: Re: college green/ o’connell street plaza and pedestrians

I was also very interested to hear the approach of DCC to the Transport 21 project in this TV programme.

Mr Keohane of DCC seemed to be fairly clear that the policy was that the T21 project should be implemented first, and the necessary work in the city centre would then be done.

I’ve seen a number of cities in Europe where the two things have been done side by side. Munich would be one example.

Neither Dublin’s most important T21 projects (like the metro or interconnector) nor the removal of traffic from large parts of the city centre are going to be easy tasks. There is, I hope, no doubt about that.

But is doing these projects in two phases better than doing them in one? I remain to be convinced.