We could implement these changes within a year, if we decided to change our priorities.

Based on these principles…

• Principle: we’ll favour walkers first, cyclists second, deliveries third, and drivers fourth

Changes we can implement today

• Declare the city to be pedestrian-priority
• Declare ebikes to be the future of inner-city commuting
• Issue parking tickets for any car partially parked on footpaths
• Change traffic light timings to prioritise walkers (i.e. next phase will be a green man after you press a beg button)
• Close inner city to traffic Sunday 6am to 11pm
• Declare inner city roads to be 30km/h
• Declare residential areas to be streets, not roads
• Declare the road should only be as wide as needed, everything else if our public space

Changes we can implement this year

• School-friendly cycle network throughout the city
• Re-assign Roads Engineers roles to Community and Street Designers
• Have these designers walk with a resident of the city to the nearest shop weekly
• Employ a cycling officer with veto powers
• Reduce all inner city roads to one lane per direction of vehicle traffic
• Implement slow zones for all residential areas
• Any Council road works proposed would be required to implement DMURS
• Have Bus Éireann mark each bus stop, with a time table
• Plan Coke bikes for residential areas around the city
• Flip our triangles around

Why are these difficult? They challenge our very assumptions of our public space. Who has a right to travel through that space? At what speed? At what cost? Let’s keep that discussion going.