Politics

College Green car lanes to close as part of plan to remove city traffic

Move is part of three-year plan to free Dublin city centre of traffic, and similar plans in all urban areas

Artist's impression of a car-free College Green: removing cars from the area is part of wider plans to remove traffic from Dublin city centre over the next three years. Picture: PA

Car lanes will begin to be phased out of College Green from next year as part of wider plans to remove traffic from Dublin city centre over the next three years, the Minister for Transport has said.

Speaking to the Business Post, Eamon Ryan described an overhaul of some of the busiest roads in the capital in coming years as part of an effort to reallocate road space away from cars in urban centres. He ...