New Liffey Bridge: Marlborough St to Hawkin’s St

i believe St Anne’s on Dawson St is campaigning against having the Luas on Dawson St & is proposing that it should run down Merrion Square instead. The tinkling of the Luas would interfere with the church music.
Anyway, as to bridges, why don’t they just pave over the Liffey – that damn river is just in the way!

@JuliusCaesar wrote:

i believe St Anne’s on Dawson St is campaigning against having the Luas on Dawson St & is proposing that it should run down Merrion Square instead. The tinkling of the Luas would interfere with the church music.
Anyway, as to bridges, why don’t they just pave over the Liffey – that damn river is just in the way!

So St Annes wants to send the sardine tins on a magical mystery tour of Dublin………a better idea would be to relocate their tedious madrigals to Helmand provence where they could concentrate on other things.

I think they’re most concerned about having the road outside the entrance to their church being dug up for months upon months. It’s not an insane concern, seeing as Dawson St is now one of the few roads from Donnybrook direction that leads to College Green…via the bottleknecks around Trinity,,
Actually, what sort of nonsense city centre do we have? There’s not one bloody wide street, apart from the two big Georgian Squares!

Ljubljana 3 bridges the problem for DCC is they all look the same : )

Have your say about the Marlborough Street Bridge

http://www.dublincity.ie/RoadsandTraffic/MajorTransportProjects/Pages/MarlboroughStreetPublic.aspx

Dublin City Council is planning to build a new bridge over the River Liffey in Dublin City Centre, just downstream of O’Connell Bridge. Plans and particulars of the proposed project will be on display at the offices of Dublin City Council, The Atrium, Block 4, Civic Offices, Wood Quay Dublin 8 Monday to Friday between 9.00am and 4.30pm from Thursday 18th September until Wednesday 1st October 2008. An information evening will held at the same location on Thursday 18th September 2008 between 4pm and 8pm. Staff from Dublin City Council and its consultants will be in attendance at this time to answer queries from the public.

If all the buses coming down O’Connell St make a left-hand turn onto Eden Quay, then you can forget about trying to move east along the quays. There’ll be a continuous yellow bottleneck, as far as the eye can see.

Why not ban all cars from coming into Dublin they do that in Oxford pedestrianize the lot free up some space from the overpriced car parks just my tuppence worth

too logical, it doesn’t stand a chance.

It’s a laudible idea but I think it’s anything but logical. There is too much traffic allowed go over O’Connell Bridge for this to work on any level. There are currently four traffic lanes in which both cars and buses are allowed [regularly completely full] and under this proposal, it would be cut to two.
As long as DCC continue to use O’Connell Bridge as one of the city’s main access/exit points, this proposition is unworkable.
Not suggesting the new bridge makes sense either but it’s not as simple as all this.

Metro North/Luas BX/etc does little or nothing for the people who either need cars for work or don’t have access to a decent public transport network.
It is one thing talking about congestion charging, closing the city centre off when a public transport network is in place, as it is in somewhere like London/Paris/even New York.
But punishing motorists for the failures of government is wrong-headed, particularly for some notion of a vague improvement in the public environment.
Without wanting to sound like AA Roadwatch, the majority of Dubliners would prefer O’Connell Bridge to remain open to traffic than having to do a 15-minute detour via St Patrick’s Cathedral or Butt Bridge.