Car numbers on street down 72% since restrictions imposed on Capel Street on other side of Liffey
Parliament Street: Dublin City Council last summer trialled a pedestrian and cycle-only zone on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings from 6.30pm to 11pm. It is now planning to introduce permanent measures to eliminate or reduce traffic on the city centre street. Photograph: Dara Mac DónaillProposals to take traffic out of Dublin’s Parliament Street, which could be a mirror of Capel Street on the opposite site of the Liffey, will be presented to Dublin city councillors on Monday.
Cars were banned from Parliament Street and Capel Street, which face each other over the river Liffey at Grattan Bridge, on weekend evenings in the summer of 2021. The council subsequently decided to make the Capel Street car-free zone permanent, but had retained traffic on Parliament Street, in part due to its use by buses.
The council last summer again trialled the pedestrian and cycle-only zone on Parliament Street on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings from 6.30pm to 11pm. It is now planning to introduce permanent measures to eliminate or significantly reduce traffic on the street. Council engineers will on Monday present three options to councillors. One option is to make the street “traffic-free”. It is likely that it would be done in two sections, one between the quays and Essex Street East, the only cross street though Parliament Street, and a second section between Essex Street East and City Hall.
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