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The street which faces City Hall will be initially closed to private cars for a period of six month. © RollingNews.ie

Parliament Street in Dublin city will be pedestrianised at the end of June

A traffic-free zone will be in place on the street from 11am every day.

PARLIAMENT STREET IN Dublin city centre will be pedestrianised by the end of June, the local authority has announced.

As part of the next phase of implementing the capital city’s traffic plan, the street which faces City Hall will be initially closed to private cars for a period of six months, after which an evaluation report will be conducted.

A traffic-free zone will be in place on the street from 11am every day. The area will only be open to vehicles on the Lord Edward Street side for a five-hour period each morning for delivery drop-offs for nearby businesses.

Locals are invited to have their say in the non-statutory public consultation scheme which is hosted online by Dublin City Council. It says that, by the end of June this year, the street will be pedestrianised.

Two-way cycling links and paths will be developed on the street, and the existing road on the Essex Quay side of the street will be elevated to the existing kerb level. The project will proceed following the end of a consultation period, which launched today.

From December and January, Dublin City Council will conduct an evaluation of the project after it has been in operation for six months. Elected councillors will be presented with the report next year to inform future decision-making.

The council previously recommended plans to pedestrianise the street following a traffic report in April, in which it said that the thoroughfare would be free from private cars ‘by the summer’.

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    Mute Larry Betts
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    May 13th 2025, 8:00 PM

    I find nothing wrong with Parliament St. being pedestrianised,I think it’s good for the area to give it a bit of a buzz,create a cafe society,visitors strolling around at their ease. As for deliveries,I used to deliver to stores along Grafton st. Drive along early in the morning,make your drops,head off again. Anything is possible with a little forward planning.

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    May 14th 2025, 10:11 AM

    @Larry Betts: They wont manage as far as the planning and placing restrictions on commercial interests is ‘no bueno’ in Ireland. Seen an EV lorry yet? nope

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    May 13th 2025, 7:51 PM

    All off-topic comments should be immediately deleted and the posters banned. This is a discussion about traffic plans for Dublin. Keep your bigoted and radical views to yourselves.

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    May 13th 2025, 8:09 PM

    @Larry Betts: Gotta love the keyboard warriors

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    May 13th 2025, 8:10 PM

    @Ger Whelan: For Whom The Bellends Troll

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    May 13th 2025, 8:36 PM

    @Larry Betts: stay on topic then you bellend

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    May 13th 2025, 8:41 PM

    @Andrew Kenny: ##c# you. Andrew.

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    May 13th 2025, 9:12 PM

    @Larry Betts: fair play to you Larry,just as well to follow suit and keep your jokes on topic.

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    May 13th 2025, 9:41 PM

    @Larry Betts: 3 penalty points

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    May 13th 2025, 9:51 PM

    @Alex: what’s wrong Alex? Afraid to blurt out what you really think should happen to all Muslims globally & get yourself deleted? Or is Andrew just annoying you?

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    May 13th 2025, 10:30 PM

    @j m m: Muhammads teachings are a cancer on this earth. Muslims suffer more than anyone because of them.

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    May 13th 2025, 7:44 PM

    ###k Israel and the disease that is Nethanyahu.

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    May 13th 2025, 8:11 PM

    @Andrew Kenny: Jaysus have the Israeli’s bombed parliament street

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    May 13th 2025, 8:29 PM

    @Michael Walsh: No. Probably would if there was a Palestinian hospital on it.

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    May 13th 2025, 10:36 PM

    @Anthony Curran: The perfect and unfortunately ‘true’ response.

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    May 14th 2025, 12:41 AM

    @Anthony Curran: They’d bomb it 1st then look for one.

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    May 13th 2025, 9:01 PM

    Back when Parliament Street was two lanes, I stupidly cycled my bike between two parallel buses turning onto dame street. It’s a good thing I’m a skinny bloke. I had to stop straight away and move backwards while still sitting on the bike. Another few meters forward and I’d have been paste. Any advancement to keep traffic out of the city centre is a good idea imho.

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    May 13th 2025, 9:08 PM

    @Meh Meh: Cities without traffic are lovely. I’ve been to Lisbon three times,and it’s great to see the city centre a big pedestrianised mall,traffic skirts around the outside,bearing in mind the inner city is really like a big town. Families out with kids strolling around at 10.30 at night,not a care in the world.

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    May 14th 2025, 4:26 AM

    @Larry Betts: Can’t imagine families with kids strolling around Dublin @ 10.30 at night, can you.

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    May 14th 2025, 10:42 AM

    @John O: why not? There is an awful lot of media hype and right wing hype about Dublin being a dangerous place. It is one of the safest cities in the world; one of the safest capital city in Europe.

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    May 13th 2025, 9:15 PM

    Great plan of action bottle neck coming over Capel street bridge.

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    May 13th 2025, 9:17 PM

    Dublin is looking great

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    May 13th 2025, 10:31 PM

    @Fidelma Clarke: Especially in the rear view mirror.

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    May 13th 2025, 11:39 PM

    @Fidelma Clarke: on google images

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    May 14th 2025, 12:24 AM

    Brilliant News It should have been done Ages ago

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    May 14th 2025, 8:17 AM

    Easy access for a slice!

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