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THE AVERAGE TIME to travel 10 kilometers in Dublin increased by one minute last year, leading it to become the second slowest city in the world.
New data from location technology company TomTom has found that trips totalling 10 kilometres take 29 minutes and 30 seconds on average in the capital despite ranking above cities with much larger populations.
The “best time to avoid” driving in Dublin is Wednesday morning, between 8-9am, when the average time it takes to drive 10kms reaches an average of 41 minutes and 30 seconds.
Rush hours (8-9am and 4-5pm) on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday were found to be when the highest level of emissions were released by drivers in Dublin, totalling on average approximately 2 kilograms of CO2 every hour.
London, in the UK, topped the table as the world’s slowest city, with the average 10km journey taking just over 37 minutes, an increase of one minute compared to 2022.
Below Dublin ranked Toronto in Canada (29 minutes), Milan in Italy (28 minutes 50 seconds), Lima in Peru (28 minutes 30 seconds) and Bengaluru in India (28 minutes 10 seconds).
A full list of the results from TomTom can be found here.
Despite ranking second in terms of time spent travelling 10km, Dublin ranked first in terms of congestion – with the company’s analysis suggesting the city has a 66% congestion level.
On average, a driver in Dublin spent €202 worth of fuel in 2023 just in congestion – approximately eight average-sized tanks of petrol, according to TomTom.
The data has also determined that the ‘Time lost per year at rush hours’ in Dublin totalled 158 hours in 2023, the highest in the world. The company equates the time to the average amount of time someone can spend reading 59 books.
The average speed of a vehicle in Dublin was logged at 16 km/h, also the second slowest time.
Cities Limerick and Cork ranked 212nd and 202nd, respectively, with the average time spent travelling 10km totalling in around 15 minutes and 45 seconds.
In September last year, a review commissioned by junior transport minister Jack Chambers led to government committing to reducing speed limits on many roads by 20km/h.
In the same month, The Journal revealed that an overhaul of Dublin City centre roads plans to curb cross-town traffic through deprioritising vehicular traffic through the core and boosting public transport, cycling and walking.
Includes reporting by Press Association
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That’s very sad many people lost their jobs because pub are closed.
I am foreign but I know going to pub is very Irish tradition probably many places will be closed permanently. If you are young is fine but there is a lot of people over 50 working in pubs probably for most of their lives I wonder if doing any training going to change anything.
I hope this is last lockdown and maybe some of the places are going to be saved.
@artur filip: Well said. Completely agree
After being trained in these hospitality lessons will they be “fully trained” or will they need to “work as a trainee waiter for free for a year in order to become a real waiter that gets paid” kind of scenario?
A very FG thing to do. A loophole that often gets abused.
@Dean: incredibly cynical view. They are upskilling people in the industry so they can do other things or be better able to go up the ranks. In other words an existing waiter learns finances so they can become a manger or change industry. Why people want to blame one party is a mystery. Do you think any other party would really come up and be able to implement something better? Civil servants have more to do with this than the government
@Craic_a_tower: Everyone can’t ‘move up the ranks’.
@Craic_a_tower:
I finished college at 22 with a degree. Every employer wanted at least 2 years of experience. So if a salary was 40 thousand, that meant that it’s loss of 80 thousand. If you learn as you work in a company, you’re still working and thus should get paid. That shouldn’t be a big ask; work is work.
Essentially a college grad’s first full-time pay check is at age 24. Some people have kids by then, need to sleep somewhere during this time, and eat food during, surprisingly.
To add to that, from 2011, FG ushered in all these unpaid positions: internships, placements, trainee worker, student worker, jobbridge, work to become a worker.
I later upskilled and again employers wanted 2 years of work experience for that position, which meant more internships. These are barriers.
This is key FG policy. They attract business by offering the Irish workforce as free labour. It’s peak dystopian capitalism. Working for free in the hope of getting the job we already work doing (internship).
Businesses will happily exploit, and FG and FF offer those conditions. Workers want to be paid for working—which shouldn’t be a radical idea—and workers have basically all the other parties who fight for less worker barriers.
@Jim Lingk: Exactly, A) there are fewer positions “up the ladder” which should be obvious. B) obviously people who put in the time, effort and money to get a qualification should be rewarded for that but it really shouldn’t be a controversial stance that every working person should be able to afford things like home ownership and childcare costs? We’re literally precluding people from having a home and family because of the perceived “value” of their work. Just because someone works retail or hospitality does not make them some sort of untermensch. Especially considering how many of their jobs have been classed as “essential”.
@Jim Lingk: there’s research on that – probably 80% of people can, and it’s important to give 100% of people the opportunity. This is no time for cynicism and bickering – everyone wants everyone to have the chance to work.
@Dean: starting wage as a graduate is not €40k most or even vaguely possible. I agree you should be paid for work and nobody in my industry does what you are suggesting. College graduate outside a few select industries also don’t do what you are suggesting. There are entry level jobs more than nonpaying internships in this country.
It still isn’t relevant to what is going on here
@Jim Lingk: But they could move from one closed Pup to another closed Pup
Luckily I haven’t been out of work this year, but I do think it’s funny that as a hospitality worker, along with many others I have worked with, I have achieved a higher level of further education than our minister for higher education. Do FF/FG really not see the optics of a college dropout getting paid 6 figures to tell people that they need to go to college? Do they really not care how out of touch they look with working people?
@Liam Edward Harris: should he advise everybody to drop out of college for a six-figure salary?
@Alan McArdle: he should probably be qualified for the job he’s doing. Being pals with Frances Fitzgerald and Leo doesn’t count.
Dara calleary’s pissing and moaning about not getting a ministerial role sums up the issue with the positions. He didn’t care what department he was in charge of he just knew he should be in charge of A department. Experience, expertise, interest, knowledge be damned because ministerial roles are just promotions handed out for loyal service
I knew that the hospitality sector wouldn’t recover fully. But this headline makes me sad.
There’s nothing like an adventure and a bowl of ribs and a glass of Guinness of a Sunday after working all week.
I would holiday in Ireland above anywhere for the craic and the people.
I also think we’re raising a bunch of offended drones who will never get to explore life and individuality through the experiences of letting it all go at a nightclub or seeing a band that might be famous in 10 years or flirting with the doorman. (Happy V day babe)
I hope a stimulus package is introduced and it means business.
@Dearbhla O Reilly: you’re flirting with the doorman and you’re hoping that a stimulus package is introduced that means business. Hhmmm. That’s definitely living alright. :)
@GrumpyAulFella: nothing like a good stimulus package… ;-)
@Dearbhla O Reilly: :-)
@Dearbhla O Reilly: letting it all go died when everything started being filmed and photographed.
@Dearbhla O Reilly: I always thought a stimulus package arrived from an online shop in a plain brown box.
Another nice fat contract for seetec/jobs path,
Here we go again, kerching
The same old story as the last crisis.
Upskilling in “strategic planning ” ? A course provided by the government who have absolutely NO strategic planning in running this country.
And then again the events and experience industry is just forgotten… hospitality isn’t the only sector closed, events professionals have been impacted as much as the pubs.
@Kate Sheppard: indeed, and it will probably be the last to reopen – if ever.
Seems like the government is prettymuch prepared to kill this sector and expects people to need to find employment elsewhere.
@Ainm: I would entirely agree with you. Alcohol action Ireland seem to have some very powerful friends in Government. A traditional Irish pub is a thing of beauty. I don’t understand why it has been destroyed by people in power on 6 figure salaries
Phupp off you phupping pedro files
@David Jones: that’s it! I’m calling the man!
I see this as being a cynical move by our Gestapo government. They don’t want to pay the pup even though it is because of them that the industry has been destroyed. More disgusting actions from an unelected Government
The government as much as saying the hospitality sector is finished. The vultures are circling.
Online courses
Been there before with these courses ecdl course of landscape gardening or welding. Then when you complete a course and look for a compatible career you’re not qualified enough or there is so excuse why you can’t do the job.
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