Dublin City Council to resubmit €10m plan to An Bord Pleanála by middle of the year
The board said there was “uncertainty” about the potential effects on the bus system, but they were likely to be “significantly negative in the light of the scale of rerouting of buses proposed, the critical importance of bus transport to the city, and its future role in facilitating modal shift from public car usage, in line with national policy”.
It criticised the traffic analysis done by the council and was not satisfied it was “sufficient to accurately quantify the traffic impacts of the proposed development and the magnitude of those impacts”.It was particularly concerned about the impact of rerouting buses to the city quays where it said there were “unresolved capacity issues”.
Mr O’Brien said he was surprised the board refused the plaza on the grounds of excessive numbers of buses being moved onto the quays. “The disappointing thing was that the reasons given for the refusal, around the bus fleet and so on, was not actually something we would have anticipated was the particular issue.”“Basically in the modelling work that was done, the most accurate thing you model is the bus fleet because a bus fleet goes where a bus fleet is told to go,” he said.
The council is gathering more information, including data on where passengers alight buses, to improve its new application he said, and will also have better information on the Bus Connects project - the on-going redesign of theThe council plans to close College Green to traffic between 7am and 7pm on Sundays during the summer months to hold events and test out the popularity of the plaza.
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