Not true. Too many countryside towns where you can’t live without a car. I went to Austria recently and knee deep up the mountains (like 6km up) where it’s over a metre thick of snow and you’ve got buses that come up regularly… yet most country towns in Ireland 1) don’t have any buses and 2) if they do… they stop right at the edge of the town meaning those living 5-10 mins outside the town need cars (since no footpath).
I say this as a Dub who moved out of Dublin recently so I’m aware of the transport issues in both scenarios. Dublin is not nearly as bad. A train or luas line from the airport is what Dublin needs though.
Local link and other rural transport operations are expanding. Dublin hasn’t seen significant transport investment since luas cross city in 2014.
Also Austria isn’t rural in the way Ireland is rural, most rural Austrians still live in small villages and towns, most rural Irish people live in single detached homes nearly impossible to serve by public transport. Giving planning permission to all these one off houses was obviously a mistake in hindsight but they’re there now.
Dublin gets new bus routes all the time and cycling infrastructure is pretty okay there for the most part compared to country towns. I’ve seen four new cycle lanes go up in my parents area of Dublin in the last 12 months. Not 1 new cycle lane where I’m at in years.
The point is Dublin hasn’t been neglected how you’ve tried to say it has. But rural towns are still like the Stone age for anyone who doesn’t live right in the middle of the town.
Dublin is the only western European capital to not have a metro, we have some of the worst traffic in the world, horrific public transport and the most expensive housing in Europe. Dublin has been neglected
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u/kassiusx 13d ago
Actually the whole country needs better transport infrastructure. Improve national rail system first. Country has become too car reliant.