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DUBLIN CITY COUNCIL has announced the introduction of continuous footpaths around the capital, which will cut across the tops of side roads and mean pedestrians can keep walking without a drop in height.
The project is aimed at making the city more walkable and ensuring pedestrians have clear right of way when crossing a “minor” side road at a junction.
Dublin City Council said in a statement today that the paths are designed to “boost safety and convenience for pedestrians, wheelers, and other footpath users”.
The announcement comes as the city’s new restrictions on through traffic come into effect today.
“By maintaining the footpath at a consistent level and slowing vehicle speeds, these footpaths contribute to vibrant, liveable streets that are easier to navigate,” the Council said.
“They also remind drivers that they must slow down, exercise caution, and yield to pedestrians and other footpath users at these side roads.”
As part of DCC’s Clontarf to City Centre (C2CC) Active Travel Project, 35 side roads have already been upgraded with continuous footpaths.
They will now be rolled out across other projects within Dublin City Council’s Active Travel Network.
“Every journey counts,” said Christopher K Manzira, deputy director for the Dublin City Council Active Travel Programme.
“Dublin City is committed to implement upgrades that make the city streets safer for all pedestrians, people using wheelchairs, prams and other mobility aids. The Clontarf to City Centre project is a demonstration of our commitment to achieving this,” he said.
“We believe this initiative will not only improve road safety but will also encourage more people to choose active travel, promote healthier travel choices and create a pathway to a more sustainable urban environment for all.”
Dublin City Council is pleased to introduce Continuous Footpaths on our Active Travel Network.
— Dublin City Council (@DubCityCouncil) August 26, 2024
How does it work? At certain side roads, the footpath continues without any change in height. Footpath users do not need to step down onto the side road to cross. Drivers must exhibit… pic.twitter.com/jh2DnSBSQW
In a video posted by DCC explaining how the system works, the main message is that pedestrians and cyclists have priority and cars must yield when either entering or turning out of a side road.
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What a devastating disaster. To destroy such an old established business like this. Hope ye can stay going and regroup. Nothing sacred anymore.
Ann
Maybe someone else nearby with a Catering Kitchen could allow her to use their kitchen on a quiet, or a shut shop, day? Esp’ if it has its own “Free Power”/Off-Grid Renewable supply (to keep overheads down – for both parties). A lot of places don’t open on Mondays, Tuesdays, & Wednesdays anymore. If she could still meet even half her clients’ orders that fit with the days she has kitchen access (for retention of freshness), it would give her a fighting chance to keep the business *in business* and ticking over while the Tradies are in the bakery unit restoring and renovating the place…. after the insurance finally inspects & processes whatever payment they intend.
Also – There should not be any water *still* pouring out into her shop unit. Would the Firefighters not have given her a hand there to find the external stopcock and turn off the mains supply to the store entirely.
Unless it’s coming from a loft or rooftop storage tank? But even then, it should quit eventually when it runs out of water . . . .unless, again, the mains outside is not turned off and is still supplying the tank.
We’ll keep the fingers crossed for them anyway.
Best of luck bouncing back
Hope they’ve got adequate insurance that will cover rebuilding and possibly loss of earnings. Even so, next year’s premium might be off the wall. Hate to see a decent family-run business like that destroyed. Not too many left anymore.
Is it possible that the fire could be caused by the ole reliable climate change claim ? Asking for an insurance friend of mine
1862 was a long time ago. Thought it was mostly spuds on the menu then
@The Hard Road: Is that what you thought? Read much?
@Jack Hayes: Comments section is full of w anchors.
@Jack Hayes: I stand corrected. I had thought there were lots of people subsisting on potatoes rather than cream cakes during that period of Irish history. Now I know better
@The Hard Road: Like the man in the orthopaedic shoes.
@The Hard Road: Everything was on the menu then, if you had the wherewithal to pay for it!
@The Hard Road: You are on the right track …-ish. Spuds were never the problem. Wholesale confiscation of all livestock, tillage crops, and grains, by Britain, as “Taxes” surplus to coin taxes and rents, were the problem. All the “tenant” farmer was left with to sustain themselves were usually a few spuds and other scarce bits. Potato crop failed the years of the Famine Genocide, AND Britain still continued to levy and escalate confiscation of all harvests and livestock.
But you would definitely be correct. Very few indigenous Irish would have had the option or opportunity to eat home made cakes, let alone *purchased* bakery goods from the City. Back then, the shop probably predominantly supplied indigenous Protestants who had favourable access to higher salaried professional occupations and lay jobs; and the non-indigenous, like Brits, who held all the Wealth (from Resource stripping).
That is not to say there wouldn’t have been a fair few indigenous Catholics who had reasonably well paid jobs and/or happened to have multiple teenage children capable of and succeeding in getting a lower paid City job who’s wages would then all go into the pot for the mother to run the house (and, buy a rare cake on a rare special occasion).
So it wasn’t wholly impossible for indigenous Irish Catholics to purchase a cake.
It was just far more probable the Protestant Privileged, and the foreign Resource Strippers, were the more common customer (possibly alongside tea shops and other commercial enterprises that didn’t have an in-house baker)
@Pink Freud: comprehensive and factual answer.
@Pink Freud: Sort of what we have now but with multinationals
That picture brought me back .Terrible news and places like this are very few nowadays. Some are intent on destruction and for what purpose? I hope they recover. I have a yearning for a jam doughnut now.
Ireland wants a franchise here. Greggs maybe
@Thesaltyurchin: But do we really, you have clearly have not tasted anything from Greggs.
@Michael Ward: Sarcasm. Apologies, it’s a hard one when read in context. But we do prefer our shop owners to run a Centra, our coffee to be Starbucks. Imagine it’s less work for officials to do, bigger employers, lower wages. If a costa goes bust it probably doesn’t even register a blip on their overall books. Ireland has never liked the SME (imo).
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