There are 2 designated Major Town Centres in the local authority area of DunLaoghaire Rathdown County Council, Dundrum Town Centre (an enclosed regional scale shopping centre) and DunLaoghaire - a traditional town centre with a main street. Both have rail links to Dublin City Centre. But only one has the joy of a 20 tonne bus zoomin down the middle at 30 miles an hour every 10 minutes. One of these centres is increasing rents by 100% in the middle of a depression, the other is on its knees. Clearly theres many factors why DunLaoghaire is suffering, but this has got to be a factor. If you don't put customers first (as they do in a shopping mall), and even worse, make the place dangerous and uncomfortable to walk around(despite wasting a fortune on expensive paving) its no wonder the place suffers. When I talk to retailers, they always say that parking is the problem, but cars don't walk into shops.
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