Cars in the city
The proposed city centre car ban, and its opposition, are 
examples of the adversarial thinking that is becoming out of date. People need to drive into the city, and businesses need them to do so. The problem isn’t the number of people coming in, or that they need to drive: the problem is that they’re driving alone. Facilitating carpooling would solve the problem: the park-and-ride facilities at the Red Cow roundabout and Sandyford industrial estate could easily handle carpoolers as well as Luas users, and there are plenty of industrial estates that could handle a little more parking now that less employees are coming to work. The same conditions exist at most cities across Ireland. Why don’t businesses and city councils cooperate to promote carpooling? Shoppers and workers could save on petrol and parking, as well as sharing information on good deals…Who knows, maybe someone would even carry your shopping!
Tags: carpoolers, carpooling, city centre car ban, park-and-ride
