The Dublin City Council is planning to make permanent pedestrianisation of several streets in the city centre. The council has already done some weeks of trials and found that the new plan will be effective.
The council plans to clear vehicles from four places around Grafton Street and make it a pedestrian friendly area. South William Street, Drury Street, South Anne Street and Dame Court are the places which will become vehicle free on a permanent basis.
This comes after several streets were closed for traffic on a trial basis over several weekends during the summer, and parking spaces for cafes and restaurants were turned into outdoor seating places.
The new change is done after collecting people’s response through an online survey by the Dublin City Council. More than 90% of the respondents opted to the idea of removing vehicles from certain roads on a permanent basis.
Janet Horner, the City councillor said that it was based on the public feed back they have decided to permanently remove vehicles from certain roads.
“A proposal has been put forward gathering in the feedback from members of the public and from the businesses to take the next steps towards a more permanent pedestrianisation of those streets,” she said.
She added that they’ve seen hugely positive feedback from that survey and the council is now looking towards being able to put in place a more permanent system for pedestrianising South Anne Street, Dame Court, Drury Street and to an extent, South William Street.
According to reports, the extensive hiking project is being cut after some car park owners, including Brown Thomas, said the process could not be facilitated.
South William Street will not be fully pedestrian to allow cars to exit the Brown Thomas Car Park.