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Retailers fear Dublin traffic restrictions will force shoppers to out-of-town centres

The Irish Parking Association said the restrictions could result in a 24% fall off in shopping and entertainment revenue.

NEW TRAFFIC RESTRICTIONS which come into effect today will impact on consumer spending, according to Dublin car park owners.

A new survey by Red C on behalf of the Irish Parking Association (IPA) said the restrictions could result in a 24% fall off in shopping and entertainment revenue.

The survey which focused on high-end retail shoppers found that 41% of retail and entertainment spenders in Dublin use their cars to get in to the city centre.

City centre shoppers 

Three out of five city centre shoppers who used their car claim they would not do so if the planned access restrictions were in place.

The IPA says 10% of all shoppers said they would definitely not visit due to the restrictions.

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Due to the latest works on the Luas extension, College Green bus corridor will operate from Monday to Friday, 7am to 7pm.

During those hours, only buses, taxis and bicycles can travel through College Green.

Outside of these hours, the corridor will be open to all vehicles – as well as on Saturdays and Sundays. When the corridor is in operation, drivers must use alternative routes.

10/6/2015. Dublin City Scenes Eamonn Farrell / Photocall Ireland Eamonn Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

The association said the latest restrictions will only increase the pressure on retailers who it said are already suffering following the recent closure of Clerys and the examinership of leading retailers like Best Menswear and Mothercare.

Difficult trading environment

Keith Gavin, President of the Irish Parking Association, said retailers are already in a difficult trading environment.

He said “further measures which restrict customers’ access to these retailers will only serve to exacerbate the problem and may result in other developments not proceeding”.

DUNDRUM NEW SHOPPING CENTRES Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland Leon Farrell / Photocall Ireland / Photocall Ireland

The fear is the new measures will serve to discourage car users and make shoppers go elsewhere.

Gavin said car users remain a significant proportion of overall visitors to the city centre and making it difficult for them to access the city centre will only drive business to competing out-of-town centres such as Dundrum, Blanchardstown and Liffey Valley where such access and parking restrictions are not a factor.

Meanwhile, Retail Ireland and Dublin Town groups have urged Dublin City Council, the National Transport Authority and the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport  to carry out a detailed impact study and reconsider the traffic management plan.

Inaccessible areas 

The Dublin City Transport Study makes large portions of the city entirely inaccessible to shoppers, said Conor Whelan Director of Eason and Chairman of Retail Ireland.

He said Dublin retailers have raised very serious concerns about the study’s proposals on car parking, tourist coach parking and crucially, the ability of commercial vehicles to conduct downtown deliveries.

We are very disappointed that the measures were published without any consultation with Dublin’s retailers, which themselves play an enormous role in city life and generate a large portion of the Dublin City Council’s income through commercial rates.

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    Mute Willy Malone
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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:10 PM

    Only change will come at the polls … Almost 100 years of same same…

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    Mute Fank Pulman
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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:13 PM

    @Willy Malone: We’ll still be voting for civil war parties in a 100 years time¡¡¡

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    Mute James Nellie
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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:22 PM

    @Willy Malone:

    One of the most prosperous countries in the world.

    It’s done us quite well.

    Now Venezuela on the other hand. How are they getting on remind us again?

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    Mute Fank Pulman
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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:25 PM

    @James Nellie: Not that prosperous – with a €200+ billion National Debt, having gone albut bankrupt!

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    Mute The Risen
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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:26 PM

    @James Nellie: “One of the most prosperous countries in the world.”

    Nice to hear that you’re doing well personally james. However, the record number of homeless, children in persistent poverty and people dying waiting for hospital treatment might disagree with you.

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    Mute James Nellie
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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:28 PM

    @The Risen:

    Are you disagreeing Ireland is one of the most prosperous countries in the world?

    Have you travelled much?

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:32 PM

    @James Nellie: Since the crash, the number of millionaires has more than doubled. During the same period, the number of children living in persistent poverty has also more than doubled, our public healthcare system has been decimated and homelessness is now a national emergency.

    So, it really depends on how you define prosperous. Leprechaun economics or the state of society.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:33 PM

    @James Nellie: Well, we wouldn’t be in the top 10!

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:34 PM

    @The Risen:

    Children in persistent poverty?

    Don’t make me laugh. Who’s fault is that?

    Oh of course it’s the government’s. Not the parents who spend all their money on drink smokes gambling etc.

    No personal responsibility anymore just blame the goverment for everything.

    Even though we have one of the most generous welfare systems in the world.

    We have the highest jobless households in Europe. One generation of leeches just pass it onto their kids. Sure just blame the goverment.

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    Mute The Risen
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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:37 PM

    ^

    Oh, look who’s back…..

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    Mute Fank Pulman
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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:39 PM

    @James Nellie: Most generous welfare systems! Even the NHS is free – and much better than the HSE who have more trollies than nurses…

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:44 PM

    @James Nellie: Prosperous for who? Vulture funds and their political cronies who never saw a brown envelope they didn’t like? People who work are homeless. Three thousand children are homeless. How is that “quite well”? You government apologist stooges are beyond embarrassing!

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    Mute James Nellie
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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:44 PM

    @Fank Pulman:

    Actually the nhs is in turmoil with waiting lists, lack of doctors, nurses, ambulances etc.

    Don’t know where you get your information.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:46 PM

    @DaisyChainsaw:

    There is homeless people in every country in the world.

    Have you the solution to solve it?

    There is 34,000 homeless people in Sweden. The utopia we are told about many time here.

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    Mute Fank Pulman
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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:46 PM

    @James Nellie: Not nearly as bad as here m8 – and free, even prescriptions. Not many trollies either!¡

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:50 PM

    @Fank Pulman:

    1 in 2 have medical cards here.

    The health system is also free here.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:56 PM

    @James Nellie: Not for me. Yet, no problem seeing a UK doctor, anytime – gratis.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 1:01 PM

    @James Nellie: the main difference between Ireland and Venezuela was that the EU didn’t want ireland to fail because it would threaten their flawed project, and we got into that situation because of the incompetent idiots we’ve got in our gov.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 1:05 PM

    @James Nellie: “The health system is also free here.”

    LOL!

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    Mute Michael Geraghty
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    Aug 10th 2017, 1:46 PM

    @The Risen: why don’t you compare child poverty to Venezuela or even Sweden. Both higher. Both socialist utopias

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    Aug 10th 2017, 5:24 PM

    @James Nellie: But according to the “experts” unemployment is nearly down to 5%, yet you say we have one of the highest jobless households in Europe. Methinks more lies from the blueshirts.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 7:00 PM

    @Fank Pulman: As we know that most constituency candidates are selected because of loyalty to the party and electability within the system. They are not interested in selecting the caring Mr nice-guy or the graduate in political science. Iit is more likely to be someone like a teacher or solicitor who knows the form or has relations in the party. I can’t see it changing somehow.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 8:50 PM

    @The Risen: is children in poverty also not the parents fault?

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    Mute Mick Jordan
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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:47 PM

    Of those that are classed as Disabled what % are Junkies? Because they too under our current regime are supposedly “Disabled” and get disability payments from welfare.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:52 PM

    @Mick Jordan:

    Of course we must pander to these poor people.

    Our bloated welfare system is gonna implode in a few years and the do gooders will be scratching their heads where it went wrong.

    20 billion a year on welfare.

    Yeah that’s sustainable for a country of 5 million people.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 4:09 PM

    @James Nellie: welfare include pension and disability ans what would you like to be spent on welfare 5million?? So €1 per capita … get a grip will you

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    Aug 10th 2017, 4:19 PM

    @Mick Jordan: Would you give a person in the throes of an addiction a job?

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    Aug 10th 2017, 4:59 PM

    @Lisa Dorothy: Can they pick up trash? Can they use a shovel or a pick? Can they grade vegetables? Can they carry timber, blocks or bricks? There are many many functional addicts.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 1:04 PM

    These statistics seem meaningless unless they tell us what they mean by ‘Homeless’.

    e.g. Am I ‘Homeless’ if I’m healthy and safe but temporarily sleeping in a friend’s flat until I get a new job and can afford to rent a place of my own?

    Or am I only ‘Homeless’ if I ask the state for help getting a place of my own and the state agrees I need some sort of help?

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    Mute Owen Martin
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    Aug 10th 2017, 3:21 PM

    20 billion spent every year on social welfare. Obviously its working. We should bring in millions of migrants as Eamon Ryan says. That will help.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 4:04 PM

    @Owen Martin: Income inequality is pretty high in Ireland, especially among men. The only reason we manage a medium gini coefficient at all is because of wealth transfers from the well paid to the less well off. Our at-risk-poverty level was 16.9% in 2015 only because of this, without the social transfers it would be at 46.3%.

    To put it another way, the welfare system is working extremely well at keeping literally almost half the country from poverty.

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    Mute ginger tomatoes i9
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    Aug 10th 2017, 6:00 PM

    Curious how homeless defined? 123 rough sleepers but approx 7000 homeless. Some in shelters but does homeless include those on housing list? If so would include some questionable cases e.g. living with parents awaiting availability of social housing.

    Would be nice to get more clarity

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    Mute Shane Hickey
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    Aug 10th 2017, 3:35 PM

    where were the census forms delivered to homeless people or is this just those in hostels?

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    Aug 10th 2017, 4:02 PM

    @Shane Hickey: Census enumerators, with the help of organisations like Simon, VdeP also the guards went out on the night to record the people sleeping rough and in hostels.

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    Mute Trevor Hayden
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    Aug 10th 2017, 11:59 AM

    And this is seen somehow as a good thing by FG?
    Pathetic.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:12 PM

    @Trevor Hayden: the 14% non Irish is bull and we shouldn’t be housing non Irish with Irish tax payers money anyway.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:19 PM

    @Danny foley: Leave them on the street then?

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:20 PM

    @Danny foley: we shouldn’t be housing anyone with taxes. Also abolish government regulations and taxes, housing prices will fall and same with homelessness. Are ya on any welfare or rebaits ?

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:24 PM

    @Danny foley: No matter which nationality you are danny, if you are contributing to the exchequer, at the very least a roof over your head should be the minimum.

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:31 PM

    @Trevor Hayden: LOL, yeah that’s the model that’ll work. LOL

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:43 PM

    @Trevor Hayden: These are Leo’s ‘middle-class’

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    Aug 10th 2017, 7:47 PM

    That just states that even people who are working and earning money are struggling because of the housing crisis, which is horrendous. It’s a shocking indictment of the awful mismanagement of the country by our disgraceful politicians.

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    Aug 11th 2017, 12:12 AM
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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:34 PM

    So the postman gives census forms to those sleeping rough? Load of crap

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    Aug 10th 2017, 12:32 PM

    So the postman delivers the census forms to those sleeping rough???? What a load of crap

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