Reading through an economic impact report for carpark owners on the Dublin City Centre Transport Plan, which argues that two short bus lanes will cost Dublin millions.

Let's just say I hope they didn't pay too much for it.

A few points that jump out: 🧵 1. Bizarrely, the report doesn't model the economic impacts of the transport plan at all.

It instead looks at what would happen if the transport targets in the city development plan were met. 🤔

But anyway.

Get yourself down to the brilliant Christmas Fair at @RichBarracks in Inchicore! Open today until 5:30 and Sunday from 11-5:30.

There are great stalls of all sorts, and I got some lovely bits there: I'm having various Pidgeons over for Christmas, so got some suitably hashtag festive coasters from these lovely folks!

They're on Insta too at: instagram.com/diymaru/

Handy thing you might not know: all @dubcilib Dublin libraries have a home energy saving test kit, which you can take out for free (as you would a book)

I picked it up in Inchicore library in the stormy winds (pictured, for no reason) and gave it a go.

Thread on what's in it: The first bit I used was a fridge/freezer thermometer. You pop it in for 30 minutes and it'll tell you the actual temperature inside and if you're overusing energy.

Turned out my fridge should be colder, but freezer was about right.

(I'll accept no judgement on fridge contents)

OFFICIAL: Report into first week of Dublin pedestrianisation trials around Grafton St finds:

1. Traders' income up 40%-100%.

2. 96% say it's improved streets in public survey.

3. 90%+ say it should be made permanent.

4: Highest footfall in the area since early March. Here's a breakdown of the responses to Dublin City Council's public survey on the pedestrianisation.

🟢96% say it's improved experience of streets.
🟢92% say it's improved experience of streets "significantly".
🟢90%+ want measures made permanent.

Seen a few claims that the Greens voted against the living wage last night.

Untrue.

Image one is the entire Soc Dem motion which was amended to image two.

Both contain supportive references to the living wage. (1/2) The second image (the amendment which the Greens backed) actually commits to the living wage happening over the lifetime of the government, rather than just flagging the problem.

Nothing wrong with the Soc Dem motion, but I think the second is stronger on a living wage. (2/2)

BIG new proposal from Dublin City Council for traffic during and after COVID: changing the default speed limit for the city to 30kph.

THREAD: 1. All the documents for this are on this page for tomorrow's traffic policy committee meeting (3rd June). Item 5 here:

councilmeetings.dublincity.ie/ieListDocument…

Thread: There'll be lots of opposition and legit questions about plans to ramp up Dublin city's cycling and walking rapidly.

But the key question: what's the alternative? Here's the context we face... (1/9) On a given workday in 2019, to cross the canals into the city:
🚌 113k people used public transport
🚗 58k drove in with cars
🚶‍♀️ 25k walked
🚴‍♀️13k cycled

Forget for a moment the 120k who live within the canals (and we shouldn't, really): just focus on those coming in. (2/9)

THREAD: The latest drug-related death figures are out. Deeply grim, frustrating reading.

736 people died from drug-related deaths in 2016 - that's 2 a day. It's a 71% increase on 2004. Before breaking down those figures - let's just think of that one number: 736 people in 2016.

In the same year, 187 people were killed on our roads. It was rightly treated as a national emergency and is subject to high-profile, concerted government action.