Trucks go first in Dublin
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• Dublin City's director of traffic became a trucker for a day recently to get a first-hand view of the problems facing hauliers in Dublin port.
Owen Keegan was responding to continuing complaints that when 500 trucks exit the port through a single set of gates between 07:00hrs and 09:00hrs they immediately become snarled up in passing commuter traffic.
Now the whole gates area has been redesigned to give priority to trucks. An entrance roundabout will be removed and a new sequence of traffic lights will be installed, giving priority to lorries leaving the port.
These changes are designed as an interim measure until Dublin Port Tunnel comes into operation in 2003.
The tunnel's operator, the National Roads Authority, has applied to the Irish government for permission to levy a £3 toll on all nontruck traffic using the tunnel to discourage commuter traffic from using it as a shortcut to the city. Trucks will travel toll-free.