- Parking
The proposal will only compound the congestion problems associated with the concentration of schools and a third level institution in the area. It incorrectly assumes that traffic will automatically melt away once all parking provisions are removed.
- Access
The proposal removes all on street parking for a 1/2 mile section of the SCR between Fennessy's Roundabout and Alphonsus Street. This creates an arrangement similar to Wickham Street in the city on a residential street i.e. a clearway where cars cannot stop. This isolates the residents of a narrow already congested street for the benefit of through traffic. No consideration is given to home help, doctor visits, deliveries, tradesman access, parking for the disabled, routine taxi / child drop off and pick up and all the things that make an area habitable. This is compounded by the lack of side street access, lack of rear access to the houses on the road and the fact that most houses are terraced.
- Degradation of Architectural Heritage
The councils own Architectural Heritage Impact report notes that the proposal will have a negative effect on the area. The council promotes city centre living and the revitalisation of the Georgian quarter while at the same time promoting its destruction through this proposal.
- Church Access
No provision is made for the traffic congestion challenges of the Redemptorist and Elevate Churches.
- Safety
The proposal assume that parents will deposit their children from moving cars into the path of cyclists. Clearly parents will pull into the cycle lanes to deposit the many hundreds of children that go to school in the area. This negates the effect of the cycle lane and creates a more unsafe route than was started with.
A more detailed response is provided in the document attached
Reject the proposal
Renders the 1/2 mile stretch between the SCR Fennessey's junction and the SCR Alphonsus St. inaccessible to its residents, will create traffic chaos, will create a less safe environment for cyclists, pedestrians and motorists and will destroy the architectural heritage of of an old Georgian / Victorian city centre residential community.