Congestion and car dependency are front and centre in the Government’s new draft transport strategy, which would give agencies and local bodies the authority to impose extra charges on car users.
Brought to cabinet this week by Green Party leader, Eamon Ryan, ‘Moving Together: A Strategic Approach to Improving the Efficiency of Ireland’s Transport System’ is a transport strategy that aims to “reduce congestion” by encouraging the public to walk, cycle and use public transport in an “urban first” approach to the transition away from car use.
The strategy recommends congestion and parking charges as a method by which national, regional and local authorities might change their communities’ behaviours, while the phasing out of the diesel rebates is also considered as well as that of other subsidies on fossil fuels.
The strategy goes to public consultation for three months from April.
While the main focus is on reducing traffic jams, the Government has said that the strategy goes “hand-in-hand” with Government investment and efforts to increase use of public transport, electric vehicles, bikes and walking.
However, these measures are not likely to come into effect in the near future, with the legislation giving authorities power to decide how best to reduce congestion in their own areas a longer-term initiative.
Ministers were told that congestion is due to cost €2 billion by 2040, with many “significant environmental, health and social costs”.
The strategy “prioritises” changing travel behaviours first in urban centres where it says that there is greater public transport infrastructure and more options for walking and cycling. However, the strategy aims to keep “captive car-users” in mind, for whom their car is their only mode of transport, particularly in rural areas.
A “polluter pays” principle will be at work in the development of transport taxation in the medium to long term, while people who drive less and carpool could be rewarded by lower car insurance.
Laws introduced as part of the overall strategy could also see “road-user charging” such as low-emission and clean air zones.
The strategy considers the use of ‘telematic technology’ which measures driver behaviours, such as distance driven.
“Such technology has the scope to reward better driver behaviour, and encourage better driving habits, by offering discounts to drivers who achieve a series of targets set by the insurance provider, including lower premiums for lower mileage,” it reads.
Meanwhile, some commentators have questioned the shift away from cars while public transport remains sporadic, including in urban areas.
Every bank holiday like clockwork, @IrishRail basically shut down the Dart between Northside and Southside.
Meanwhile, this govt wants us to stop driving our cars…..
@EamonRyan https://t.co/Yf2Wg8n4j4— Keith Redmond (@ExCllrRedmond) March 28, 2024
This comes as architect and environmentalist Duncan Stewart criticised the proposed Metrolink project for Dublin city, saying that the project should be “withdrawn” and “redesigned” because of the carbon emissions that would come about during its construction. Minister Eamon Ryan has rejected the suggestion.
Environmentalist opposes public transport scheme. You couldn't make it up. https://t.co/Krt5cNrahr
— Ronan McGreevy (@RMcGreevy1301) March 27, 2024
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A competition to see how much you can antagonise the majority of the electorate.
Plus helping of tracker technology to keep the surveillance authoritarianism goons going @
(off-topic but important)
The Migrant Sharing Pact is to create a guarantee that Ireland takes a percentage of immigrants arriving in Europe via the mediterranean and the Balkans. Which we are – at present – under no obligation to do.
The EU are telling Italy and Greece they can’t send them back or deny them entry, with threats because this is actually untrue (see Hungary).
So they promise those countries that they’ll create a legally binding framework that will force other States to take them.
Ireland at present is not bound by any agreement to take these migrants (but has been doing so since 2021, after the lockdown – and most are being ushered in, not arriving independently).
It has a legally agreed right of Opt-Out for the scheme
Roderic’s announcements here aren’t about managing the current situation.
It is about making it permanent.
I.e. – every year, tens of thousands of migrants arriving, calling it ‘asylum’, getting processed and allowed to permanently remain. If it speeds up the process, all that means is that they will be moved into permanent housing quicker and more moved in to their vacated places in the govt. asylum centres that O’Gorman is announcing.
Fuck-all will be sent home.
And the rate of migration will increase exponentially because the system has been regularised – it is basically a beacon call to the developing world to migrate to Europe.
If we Opt-Out, we don’t take them.
If the government opt us in, we take an E.U.-determined percentage, annually, forever.
#IrelandsaysNotoEUMigrantPact
Please email your reps/candidates about this and demand they vocally call for the Opt-Out, or they get wiped out at election.
Compose your own or copy+paste this one.
Contact your local (web/paper + radio) and preferred national media. Please consider sending to friends, posting on soc. media, etc.
TDs & Senator email = their firstname(dot)surname@oireachtas.ie
Councillors email addresses on their personal website and/or those of your local authority.
MEPs email will be on both their own personal and their party websites
This is happening now
You can stop this by sending these emails – please send to at least (i) you MEP/candidates (ii) your local elections candidates and (iii) your td . One email to all will do.
Tell them you want a public statement from them, clearly calling for the opt-out. Tell them to contact media about it….ask the media to contact the reps to ask them their position
This CAN be stopped, this week, but only if people take these steps and make this issue known. Less doom-mongerimg and fatalism, more action – these reps know the power held by you and are afraid of it, but rely on your apathy.
If you have complained about this issue, if this is a matter of concern to you, if you are willing to post on here or on social media about it, the steps above are a small undertaking.
Please don’t assume that others will do it anyway, but just take these five minutes out today, before the Dáil all go home for Easter this evening.
Every time someone brings this attention online, more people become aware of it
(RTE 6-1 news entirely skirted around and ignored what the Pact actually is when interviewing McEntee yesterday – it is about agreeing to take migrants from europe’s southern and eastern borders, which we at present do not have to do. All those two discussed were secondary matters, subsidiary to this primary fact which was not even mentioned)
Change.org have a petition
Very Very important indeed: Ireland is to opt-in to a new migration pact with the European Union. This Helen McEntee”lady” is to travel to Brussels this week, to thrash out a deal to destroy Ireland forever. We have NO obligation to accept these scammers invading Europe. This has to stop.
This is a huge escalation of immigration into Ireland. We are being stabbed in the back by our Irish politicians. Ireland is being being threatened if we do not accommodate this invasion. Ireland will be fined €20,000 each year for each scammer that invades Ireland
This needs to be opposed. We need rid the country of every sitting councillor on June the 7th. If this “Government” is not brought down very quickly they will destroy our country for ever within the next year.. This is serious.
We must also prepair ourselves for the fall of the EU. The Eu is a failed entity that will either start a European War or break up. either way its at an end. The Jew led nut in France is now putting France “on a war footing”. The Tiny Balkans are arming up. The Brits are this morning repatriating their dead and maimed serving NATO in Ukraine.
Then we have this Green element, rejected by 94% of the Irish People with the idiot Ryan strutting around as if he is Ireland saviour
Waken up before its too late
I’m not a believer in this whole anti-jew thing that appears here.
If you want to criticise the bombing in gaza, fine, but ‘jew-led’, and putting ‘zionism’ at the head of every malign thing happening in the world as a couple of others do here….no thanks.
Don’t be so naive my good friend. The neocon Jew Victoria Nuland (originally “Nudelman”) admitted that the US State Department spent $5 billion funding anti-government ‘pro-democracy’ groups in Ukraine in 2014. George Soros – a Jew – was also involved. President Volodymyr Zelensky, Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal and Defense Minister Oleksii Reznikov, are Jewish. The Jew oligarch, Igor Kolomoysk, had his private militia reportedly massacred the resistors inside Odessa’s Trade Unions Building.
Jeffrey Feltman, American State Department’s “Under-Secretary for Political Affairs,” is a Jew. Petro Poroshenko is Jewish
Of the 26 positions cabinet positions listed on White House.gov, 9 of them are Jews. This is 35% of the cabinet. Jews are 2% of the US population
Secretary of State Antony Blinken is a Jew, Secretary of the Treasury Jannet Yellen is a Jew. Attorney General Merrick Garland is a Jew. Chuck Shumer, Shifty Schiff,
Garland, Blinken, Yellen, Mayorkas, and sometimes Austin. If you decide to include Austin as a major player, which is perhaps stretching the relevance of this moronic diversity you have an 80% Jewish government.
The positions of Director of National Intelligence and White House Chief of staff are also important positions, and those are both held by Jews. The two other very influential people, who are not technically cabinet members, are Jake Sullivan and Victoria Nuland, the latter of which is Jewish.
Adding all those positions together, we have 9 major players, and 7 of them are Jewish.
In Ukraine in the 1930’s more than 10 million people starved to death – due to the insane / psychopathic ambitions of a bunch of mega-sponsored mostly Jewish thugs. This is known as the HOLODOMOR, look it up and educate yourself. Don’t expect I can tell the complete story in a few lines
Lots of pricks aren’t jews, and ‘jews’ as per your nomenclature as a whole aren’t scumbags like Soros and his ilk.
If we were black, we could use ‘white’ and make duplicate arguments and pull out similar events or conspiracies real and imagined to parallel all that shite.
At some point in thinking, when ‘jew’ is used like this, reason is replaced with madness
Educate yourself then come back to me
Cop the fuck on to yourself, I’m old enough to have seen all of this shite before so drop the wise ‘educated’ initiate bollocks.
I can see your vocabulary lets you down
On the contrary, it’s succinct and accurate
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Sinn Féin have actually gotten Pa Daley to speak out against it –
https://vote.sinnfein.ie/vast-majority-of-the-eus-asylum-and-migration-pact-is-not-in-irelands-interests-pa-daly-td/
– but very, very quietly so it doen’t get traction.
Shows they’re afraid of the public mood on this and are relying on most people to be unaware of ihe Pact’s purpose and implications (see scattergun postings on the subject elsewhere for details)
Tell who you can,, get on to your reps/candidates, this needs to be stopped
Agreed.
The topic of this article is transport, not immigration.
The immigration topic needs to be spread at every opportunity. It has the power to break us completely if she opts in. Transport is only minor compared to it.
But has this pact been signed yet? I think so, that there is agreement.. Then someone else has told me no. Could you clarify? There must be discussion and opposing views allowed, all thrashed out. They never mention that we can opt out. Only telling us the advantages of new legislation would fasttrack them home or away somewhere from here. Poppycock. That spin is to entice us in. We do not know the home of the undocumented or even those with papers, as they may be fake. They cannot be sent ‘home’. She never tells us we can opt out. Can you verify where we are at. If we have committed already, we must oppose the commitment. We are already at breaking point. Opting in will break Ireland’s back. Many places have majority black already.
Write to all your elected representatives
Some Marxist was on virgin Media says we need charged in our cities. Who the hell needs congestion charges. They are literally ramming as much as possible in before they get kicked out. Looks like our new racist tea boy leader has gone into hiding now. The country is truly leaderless and we are left with green communists. Pathetic sta5e of affairs.
The social sabotage and attacks on the Irish people, in particular struggling families continues unabated. The traitor politicians have nothing but contempt for the people.
Introducing the ulez zone in London spawned the blade runners.
The green agenda is a ruse, the primary globalist policy to fraudlently suck the financial lifeblood out of citizens via tax and used as a mechanism to further control society and control the worlds food supply……….resist at all costs
So presumably Eamon Ryan and the rest of them will be taking buses and trains to work from now on then….?
More and more ways to tax us and make our lives harder. Always for a good cause, like saving the planet or housing all the immigrants while we pay crazy rent and mortgages for 30 years to buy an overpriced house.
Because Eamon knows better than an experienced architect and environmentalist. He’s some bluffer! Lol
My original post didnt get through.
The “transport strategy” can be summed up as “screw the motorist yet again”. It is obviously the “brainchild” of Eamon Ryan and the green aparathiks he has installed in his department. These proposals treat the public like fools and attack personal freedom and privacy. They must be resisted. The Green Party will cheer them so all of us need to engage with the public consultation.
People must remember you get what ypu vote for and the Greens inflict their policies on us all dedpite getting 7% support in 2020 and 3% now. Many respected scientists say CO2 is not the driver of climate.
The farmers’ protests across Europe are only a harbinger of what is coming as the general populus rise against the nett zero lunacy.
Carpooling could be rewarded with cheaper insurance?! 😂😂😂 This is Ireland, the insurance companies will start charging ya more when you tell them yer ferrying your colleagues to work once every 4 weeks.
The climate emergency / green agenda is another tentacle of the NWO / WEF world takeover.
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“Duncan Stewart criticised the proposed Metrolink project for Dublin city, saying that the project should be “withdrawn” and “redesigned” because of the carbon emissions”
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Yes, it should be cancelled, but not because of emissions.
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Because, on Metrolink’s own estimates, the project is very likely to be uneconomic. but at best it would only be very marginally economic with a very low rate pf return. The benefits of the project are estimated as E15 billion.
Ryan brags about the E9.5 billion estimate, but does not mention that this is Metrolink’s P50 estimate. The P50 means that there is only a 50% chance it will come at this value or less, What Ryan and O’Donoghue very carefully avoid mentioning is the P80 estimate which is E12.25 billion. Given the optimism bias inherent in public sector projects globally, the probability of achieving these values is almost certainly exaggerated.
And using an alternate estimating method to account for project risks, the Governments Major Project Advisory Group (MPAG) arrived at a high end estimate of about E18 billion.’ I don’t ask anyone to believe me. Believe Metrolink. All the information is on their website.
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Gript does not like links in comments, but here is where to find the info:
www metrolink ie/en/about/preliminary-business-case/
Copy to your address line and insert dots and go. Its all there
Who really runs the world answer Satan…and he uses his minions world wide to carry it out…
https://www.bitchute.com/video/c8OsaUS3cCDn/