Motorists banned from bottleneck

MOTORISTS who travel across Dublin city centre via Dame Street are facing major disruption to their travel plans from next week with the introduction of a ban on cars using College Green during peak morning and evening rush hours.

The controversial traffic management plan by Dublin City Council is designed to remove one of the city’s major bottlenecks as well as improve public transport services and the environment for pedestrians in the city centre.

The College Green bus corridor, which comes into effect next Monday, will ban all private cars from travel through College Green from 7am-10am and 4pm-7pm from Monday to Friday. Only buses, taxis and cyclists will be permitted to use the College Green corridor during these hours.