Cathal Melinn

plays piano, cycles, likes biodiversity, sustainable systems, metrics, frameworks, austria, urbanism and the pursuit of virtue #RefugeesWelcome

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@Feljin_J I thought the parnel sq terminus was fine but this is a good compromise if it allows phase 6a to proceed - fair play 🙌

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@Boenau Yes but it takes practice and for some upside down reason you have to learn to be comfortable driving slow 🤷

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@RailUsersIe The design of most stations doesn’t prioritise humans actually getting to the platform, Kilester second entrance always closed, huge fence at street level at Blackrock northbound platform - I wish they’d just let people tag on

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@Paulcorcoran10 I wish they wouldn’t put that mesh on the fences, total overkill and really bad for wildlife

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@davidmcw @TheEconomist It’s on Spotify - been listening away, great story 👌

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@MikeMcKillen @smytho Also if they opened a few gaps in the fence around the platforms and let people directly get on the platform to tag on rather than funnelling everyone through the station 🙌

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@FineGael @SimonHarrisTD @LindaMurray05 Is the energy FOSSIL fuel?

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@caroline1conroy it's really normal to change modes of transport @DublinCommuters @IrishCycle

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@caroline1conroy @GaryGannonTD @garygannon @RoryHearneGaffs oh no - after the Soc Dems disappointment on this, I was going to vote for you because the Greens seemed to lead change to new systems, I guess not

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@Cathalos1 @RoryHearneGaffs @SocDems That's incorrect @Cathalos1 - "Vienna’s Social Democratic government pursued a solution that modern cities still struggle to emulate: a massive construction program for public housing."

https://t.co/d6vU0tfUna

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@votemaryfitz @fiannafailparty @FFDublinCentral Nice one - no bus to Northwood now - but you clearly don't understand upstream or downstream effects in system disruption

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@Niels_JW @f_pilla @TelraamTelraam @IrishCycle @IrishTimes It’s good news, I’m glad it worked out for the residents and their fears are set aside, if they are open to a one way system, there’s no value in gloating, now is the time to work with them to install the cycle lane option 😊

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@IrishTimes Fair enough, hopefully they will support the cycle lane option ✅

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@OConnorOisin They’re great 😊

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@rtenews Well said @GaryGannonTD #RefugeesWelcome

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@sendboyle Population has grown by 42% since 1990 so the systems in society needs to scale with this, Ireland isn’t full, we just didn’t grow the things that support society alongside the growth in population - but we can take inspiration from other countries our size to catch up :)

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@sendboyle Yep it’s a good time to open up the conversation on scalable systems, most of our current infrastructure, health, transport, housing seemed fine in 1990 when the population was 3.5m but they don’t work now as these old systems don’t scale, if we stick with them we’re fecked

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@ChrisJMN1 @davidmcw My main point is we shouldn’t lazily adopt UK models as they let us down e.g. Ireland’s planning system is defined by the Local Government (Planning and Development) 1963 - this was closely modelled on the UK Town and Country Planning Act 1947 https://t.co/Ex7PtqMhaf

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@ChrisJMN1 @davidmcw It’s a nice train station alright

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@ChrisJMN1 @davidmcw I haven’t seen the cross rail stops, sorry was talking a broader context as a lot of the systems of government in Ireland are taken from UK models, the UK is a country 10x bigger than Ireland and I believe we would do better following Austria’s systems than the UK