The Trader's Gate

One of the notable features of small towns = large villages in Ireland is how wide is the Main Street. Much wider and with more generous pavements = sidewalks than a few hundred people and/or the passing traffic seems to justify. This is not to say that through-traffic is unimpeded. Children don't walk to school through the fields anymore, so Mams-Jams are normal at the start and end of each school day. And commute times are much quicker during mid-term breaks Automobile autonomy can jam things up for everybody. _I_ am just nipping in to the pharmacy; so those double yellow lines fade to invisibilityThere is a papal dispensation at Mass times (more often Saturday evening than Sunday now). Cars can then be abandonned anyhow anywhere near churchIn the early 90s, when Motorways were a futuristic fantasy, it was proposed to construct a by-pass round the town of Leixlip 20km West of Dublin. All traffic between Dublin and Galway, Sligo and points on the way and in between had to crawl <cof>…

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