Status: EXPLORING
CHALLENGE:
We would like to learn more about how you would like to see the kerbside space used on the street where you live. The “kerbside” is the narrow piece of the street located between the footpath and the travel lane.
The amount of kerbside space on each street is finite has a dual function – serving those living on a street, whilst also often providing a public good for others.
Due to changing needs, requests for this space has become extremely competitive in recent years. How we think about this area of the street is evolving in Dublin City and other cities across the world. No longer is it primarily reserved solely for the storage of motor vehicles, but also serves a function for the storage of bicycles, cargo-bikes, shared fleets of cars, vans and bikes, sustainable drainage and other planting solutions.
Balancing these competing demands is tricky and we would like to:
- Better understand what residents would like us to prioritise on a street in order to move towards a kerbside that works well for those living on the street.
- Provide residents with information about existing solutions which may help them to get more out of the kerbside on their street.
PROPOSITION:
We would like to explore an approach whereby all the residents of a street would individually decide on how much of the kerbside space on their street they would like to be used for
We would compile all kerbside preferences from your neighbours and take the average of all of the submissions to find out the overall preference of the street.
Example: The table below shows the kerbside preferences from 3 residents on a street with 42 kerbside units (which are currently used to park approximately 21 motor vehicles).
In the case of this (imaginary) example, the residents would have given Dublin City Council a democratic indication that they would like to allocate about 13 out of the total 42 kerbside units of the kerbside space on their street to planters and bicycle parking. This preference from the residents could then better inform the City Council’s decisions over the following years – for example when developing new plans or policies, allocating budget towards planting each year, when considering where next to add some bicycle parking stands or BikeBunkers, and so on.
The result would be (transparently but anonymously) communicated back to the residents following the result. Also it likely would make sense to repeat this exercise at set intervals (such as every 3, 5 or 10 years) to account for changing demographics on a street, and also wider cultural and policy changes.
TRIAL DESCRIPTION:
We would like to co-develop this approach with some streets, so please add your details below if interested.
For the initial iterations of this trial, we will likely be seeking streets with the following characteristics:
- small number of homes
- fully residential street
- some spare capacity in the amount of car parking on the street
- minimal pay and display parking visitors (ie a focus on the residents and their personal visitors)
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OUTCOMES:
We would be interested in hearing your thoughts about this idea.
Do you think it would work well? What problems might it pose? What would you suggest changing?
Please let us know in the comments below, or on social media @dccBETA, or by emailing beta@dublincity.ie.
DECISION:
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