Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Road Traffic and Roads Bill 2021: Discussion
Mr. Matthew Pencharz:
We have pretty granular geofencing of the product. One of the great things about micromobility is that we can deploy very quickly. I have visited Dublin a few times and I know that building a new tram line can take a while and is quite disruptive. Deploying micromobility can be done extremely quickly. Most of us here on this panel could deploy it within a few months, once we buy a tender and have permission to operate. The geofences can be tweaked very quickly. To echo my colleague's point, our experience in the UK is that nothing is perfect, and it can always be improved at the edges. That could mean tweaking some of the slow-ride zones and mandatory parking zones. For various reasons, there may be a need to bring in new slow-ride zones, but the truth is that some may need to be taken out because they are unsafe due to the way that the ride is attracting the traffic.
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