Great news for taxi drivers down the country like

[john m]

 BusConnects will be extended to the cities of Cork, Galway Limerick and Waterford, at the behest of the Greens;

* A new “Total Contributions Approach” for pensions is included in the Programme for Government;

It has been agreed that the carbon tax will rise to €100 a tonne by 2030 as demanded by the Greens.

 It is understood that the parties have agreed to an annual spend of €360 million on walking and cycling infrastructure.

[Cool Boola]

  ....Its all a joke John...At least they wont be spending our money.... because we now owe 210 billion,give or take a few billion....

[john m]

Do you ever wake up and think you are in a time warp ..Old black and white picture of College Green Electric Trams everybody on bikes .Government discussing pensions and house building .Big plans for rural Ireland .All that missing is Dev and the Comley Maidens Dancing at the Crossroads and Micheal Mc Leamore and Hilton Edwards putting on a Play in the Gate .I must get a Copy of the Evening Press and see who won the Billiards Competition in the Cosmo Big Dommos Da was playing some fella from miles out the road near Chapolizid in the final first Prize £2 .

[john m]

....Its all a joke John...At least they wont be spending our money.... because we now owe 210 billion,give or take a few billion....

It reads like a Gosgrave Programme from the 40s .Not one mention apart from increase in Carbon tax on how we are going to pay for this .ONE AND A HALF BILLION over 5 years on pushbikes and walking but local councils have an 8 million limit of any one housing project .Dont know if the Dog Licence will go up or if you need a licence for your Wolf if the Greens reintroduce them .

[Theoneandonly]

Hopefully we don't get a green minister for transport

[mercenary for hire]

They're currently offering 10k for leccy taxi grant.I'd really need 20K from Eamo to consider buying a Tesla..

[Theoneandonly]

They're currently offering 10k for leccy taxi grant.I'd really need 20K from Eamo to consider buying a Tesla..

EVs are not holding their value, a 5 year old Nissan leaf isn't worth shit because the range is so poor, similarly battery technology will improve over the coming years making the current lot valueless, also as you probably know already batteries degrade over time and even after a year are nowhere near their original capacity.
The cost of replacing them is prohibitive

[mercenary for hire]

They're getting there slowly but I'm not ready to take the plunge just yet.Too risky considering what we're facing.

The leaf 40 does about 150 miles.Leaf 62 does over 220 miles but they're very pricey.

New leaf 40 is about 29k before grants.So roughly 19k on the road.

New leaf 62 is 38k before grants so 28k on the road.

Still way too pricey but another 5k on the grant it might convince me.

There is some value on two year old leccy cars that we can still get 7/8k grants on but the import Priuses get the win because there are less compromises.Feels wrong to be taking in thousands when I'm on the Covid dole.

[Rat Catcher]

Bus Connects is a fantastic service but funding them to run a bit later i.e. until the pubs are really closed would make sense once the pubs are officially open again.

[Cool Boola]

On this 1 million a day for cyclists......Them fecccers should half2 pass a test when they are 12 and they should have to

wear yellow flourescent helmets and jackets or else......alls fair in a shooting gallery!!!!........just sayin like!!!


     ( Dont quote me)

[silverbullet]

On this 1 million a day for cyclists......Them fecccers should half2 pass a test when they are 12 and they should have to

wear yellow flourescent helmets and jackets or else......alls fair in a shooting gallery!!!!........just sayin like!!!


     ( Dont quote me)

Ban headphones on bicycles.

[Bob Shillin]

And ban cars that don't make any noise?

[Shallowhal]

And ban cars that don't make any noise?

Imagine if Ermy drove a leccy car...you'd hear the fuk coming for miles!!

[mercenary for hire]

They've got a speaker built into all the newer leccy cars for pedestrians if you can't hear it the owner probably chose to switch it off.

[Shallowhal]

Hilarious!!