City council puts the squeeze on motorists

A SPOKESMAN for Dublin City Council recently said they had no plans to introduce a congestion charge for motorists.

If this is so, why are they making all city centre streets narrower by placing ‘islands’ on roads and bus lanes, leaving only one lane for motorists.

In O’Connell Street back in the 1950s, there were eight lanes and spaces for parking two rows of cars in the centre of the street. Today there are 13 times more cars on Irish roads than there were 50 years ago, yet we are turning streets into walkways and bus lanes.