As a fun antidote keeping that board up to date used to be trivial. An hour a month to copy over a few project updates. It’s now frequently multiple hours as there are so many projects in the go to keep track of.
Some councils are better than others at putting all of their updates in one place.
Fingal are focused a lot more on mega projects as far as I can see at a high-level. Not as many small scale consistent bites at the apple in FCC compared to SDCC or even DLR.
Each council has their own style at the minute.
SDCC look to be smashing it! I’m still trying to crunch the numbers across the projects but the scale and speed of work, mostly reallocating road space, to build protected infrastructure in SDCC is incredible compared to where they were 6+ years ago.
DLRs network is getting connected up too!
Tbf it’s Dublin City Council have zero projects under construction. There about 15+ projects under construction in Dublin in Fingal, South Dublin CC and DLRCC. 4 of these by bodies other than DCC in DCC’s area.
Great progress outside DCC very little as usual within DCC. trello.com/b/dps7lepq/i...
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a chart showing rising emissions after each crisis
The 2020s have already seen two major fossil fuel shocks. In 2022, Russia, the world’s largest fossil fuel exporter, invaded Ukraine. In 2026, the Strait of Hormuz, the world’s largest oil and LNG supply route, was shut by the US-Israel war with Iran. The parallels with the 1970s oil shocks are striking. But so too is the difference. For the first time, there are scalable, cost-competitive alternatives. Solar, wind, batteries, EVs and other electrotech offer a permanent route out of fossil dependence. The shock has jolted the electric age forward. But the response is a choice: lean into local, electric security, or reach back to the old fossil playbook.
Something we need to make really clear is that there is no guarantee that fossil fuel crises end up as a net benefit for climate action, emissions reductions or even just simple technological growth
ie - "The response is a choice" @ember-energy.org
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Sorry, what now?
You want the carbon tax abolished and VAT and excise cut, but it transpires that you don’t actually pay your taxes.
Right so.
BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms
Updated Suir Road / Davitt Road junction design creates more issues than it solves
Comment & Analysis: Dublin City Council has a dual issue with its active travel network -- it is frustratingly slow at delivering a network for cycling, and, even with that slowness, many of its routes are of poor…
Horrific.
My thoughts are with the man who was brutally killed on our roads today and all who loved him.
No one should lose their life like this on our streets and we have so much work still to do in Dublin to stop this happening again.
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The article is mostly about international gas prices and supply. What are they actually doing? It sounds like the pump compressors are powered by natural gas and they are replacing them with electric pumps? If that’s true, it sounds like this is about reliability or cost savings not carbon emissions
Anyone else find the triple lock discussion both repetitive and vague? Like I'd like questions about specifics.
If say the EU wanted a force within Palestine but the US vetoed us how would people feel? If in Ukraine?
What about an invasion of Baltic EU members? Could we even assist? #speirgorm
There are literally 100s of flood relief schemes in place, and only a handful have been judicially reviewed. Enniscorthy hasn't even got planning permission but judicial review is being blamed for delay.
750 CPOs seems pretty high. Is that including all of the people that Irish Rail are acquiring the substratum rights for the retaining wall pins who will receive near 0 compensation as the depths are so deep?
They seriously think they can award that little to outsiders with no context on the problems that DB face or the data that they have. If so, I don’t know what to say other than spend that €15k on recruitment fees for new management. Innovation challenges can be great when well targeted. This 🤔 [2/2]
I’ll speak to the one suggestion area I know about. €15k on data management and visualisation is barely enough to do anything meaningful. You’ll get some orphaned and unmaintained system. Data and viz are an operational life system. They … [1/2]
There's an obvious next step here: identify examples of criminal conduct to date, and prosecute - as you would expect to happen if it were anyone else. Dismay doesn't cut it.
This is shocking loose, crude talk - something we expect the judiciary to be above
I’m gutted for all cyclists out there-we need more cycling for a safer calmer faster moving city
Judge O’ Donohoe should retract
If not, I think the Judicial Council must intervene
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There are some (rare) gems and there are a lot of head shakes. Lots of head shakes. Like I appreciate a positive world outlook. Mainly because climate crisis looks bleak. But ER is overly optimistic when it isn’t called for pretty often.
This is one of those scenarios where if all new data centres are using good time-based PPAs to fund renewable energy dev this is a positive.
Problem: there is no policy, strategy or funding in place to expect that this will happen, as opposed to new DCs using inefficient fossil gas generators.
The Simpsons really did predict everything
My brother in Christ, you're a cabinet minister who approved the National Development Plan which shelved DART+ South West until 2031
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It was hard to fully grasp but their logic but was almost those who choose to do a driving commute from Kildare to Dublin chose their pain.
It focused on a purely transport planing lens, long commutes are bad, and ignores wider cost of housing, family needs, distance to family support network etc
Same. The only part of my old commute that I miss is the amount of time for listening to podcasts.
As someone who now frequently works from home –thankfully – I do miss some of the time my brain got to wander while commuting.
A transition time I’m trying to recreate in a WFH situation.
But it’s wild have different a one hour commute by driving vs as a passenger on a train with a seat (and table) can be.
I know someone with a 1hr per direction train commute who writes little video games for their kids. Something they love doing. Can’t do that while driving 1 hour though.
I’ve met those in Dept Transport and the NTA who weren’t in favour of expanding quality rail to outer commuter locations, which they mean as Drogheda, Wicklow, Navan, Kildare because it would encourage unsustainable commute distances.
Totally oblivious to the thousands who already do this today.
These stories are soul destroying. So much lost personal time. So much stress and pain.
This government, which has failed deliver any meaningful public transport infra since 2017, could start building this upgrade to improve the quality of life of people like this.
But they aren’t doing it.
… near Huston to enable Irish Rail to improve frequency, speed and capacity of regional commuter train service to Naas, Newbridge, Kildare and intercity services to Cork, Limerick, Waterford and Galway.
It would also unlock the future possibility to expand DART to Sallins/Naas, or even Naas town.
Want to know what public transport infrastructure project is necessary to improve train services to Kildare?
It’s DART+ SW, which has full planning permission and could go to tender tomorrow. But no government funding until 2030.
It provides DART to Hazelhatch. But also provides more track space …
Four months after it was promised, we finally have the government's transport investment plan between now and 2030. It's bad. Roads are in, public transport is out. A lot of public transport projects being put on the long-finger to make funding available for new roads.