Car number in 1990-2018 (801k - 2.13m)

Doubled by 2005. Up another 500k or so by 2018.

No consultation. No advance consideration of impacts.

Contrast the bitter loud resistance to any efforts to reclaim spaces previously safe for others to use.

(You see here too the fatal flaw of imposing exhaust gases emission limits only on a ‘per vehicle’ basis, without putting any control on overall vehicle numbers.)

#air #pollution #climateemergency #transport

Thread idea sparked by @keithalexander https://twitter.com/keithalexander/status/1277977385388740608?s=21 https://twitter.com/keithalexander/status/1277977385388740608

Thanks to @getmygoats (great handle!) for pointing to more recent CSO figures, also showing a higher starting base number than the OP source -

More detail from @CSOIreland
https://data.cso.ie 

2019 - 2,175,000 private cars.

(Taxis, hackneys went from fewer than 5,000 in 1990 to over 20,000)

Time to think differently
https://twitter.com/cycling_embassy/status/1344191594531057664?s=21 https://twitter.com/cycling_embassy/status/1344191594531057664

Here’s a great place to start https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/spotlight/arid-40086260.html

See http://corklimerick.ie  for how to have your say.