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Originally Posted by markh
They also said they wanted O'Connell street kept clear for shoppers cars 
If I had my way all traffic bar commercial traffic, buses, bikes and taxis would be banned from using O'Connell st. |
I was afraid of that. I think in the next couple of years there should be absolutely no reason for the vast majority of private cars to access O'Connell Street at all. Arnott's car park will be gone (in its current form at least) and we will have a new mall stretching from the GPO to Liffey St. This would seem the perfect time to ban cars altogether, which would make the street a much more pleasent environment.
My preferred layout would be to put both Luas tracks down one side of the street (outside the GPO) and make the other side a 2-way busway (outside Clearys). There may be practical reasons why this wouldn't work, but it looks good in my head.