| The new speed limit of 30 kilometres per hour | | | | need a vibrant core, a central area that is the |
| (20 miles per hour) in Dublin City Centre was | | | | heartbeat of the city where shoppers, tourists |
| introduced on the 1st February 2010 by Dublin | | | | and revellers have an opportunity to sample all |
| City Council in an exercise that can only be | | | | the goods attractions of that place in a compact |
| described as the another example of the | | | | area. Being a small city, Dublin has the perfect city |
| madness of public servants in trying to impose | | | | centre in that it comprises a small area and has |
| rules on the public that assumes they have no | | | | everything from heritage and history to shopping |
| common sense. This "Nanny State" mindset and | | | | and eating all in one district. |
| desire to control the lives of both citizens and | | | | By introducing this ridiculous speed limit they are |
| visitors is an exercise in the minions of the civil | | | | going to give people one more reason to stay out |
| service being seen to flex their puny muscles to | | | | of the city centre. Visitors to the city, whether |
| bring yet another law to be observed upon the | | | | from another area of Ireland or from abroad who |
| public. | | | | travel into the centre by car, are going to be |
| The new ridiculously low speed limit will apply to all | | | | unwitting victims of this trap, for that is what is, |
| of central Dublin and will be policed and | | | | to generate more filthy lucre for the Dublin City |
| implemented with the aid of speed cameras which | | | | Council. The AA has rightly condemned the move |
| leads one to conclude that far from being a | | | | as akin to madness when the recession has |
| safety measure, this is merely a device to raise | | | | ensured that traffic was never as light in the |
| more revenue for the overstaffed and grossly | | | | centre of Dublin. |
| inefficient Dublin City Council. Their pointless | | | | So, to those of you are visiting Dublin whether |
| interfering was obvious to the unfortunate traders | | | | for business or pleasure, be very careful around |
| of the city centre when they introduced a car | | | | the city centre as you drive. You may well think |
| ban from the College Green area just before | | | | you are in a funeral cortege such is the slow |
| Christmas and in the process decimated what little | | | | progress in otherwise uncongested streets. But |
| was left of the retail business in Dublin city centre. | | | | no, this is Dublin 2010! |
| Any travel destination that is a city in any country | | | | |