page_title: College Green, Dublin
section_title: Traffic restriction
hierarchical_section_title: College Green, Dublin / Traffic restriction
caption_attribution_description: English: A large crowd waits for the arrival of United States President Barack Obama at College Green in Dublin, Ireland, 23 May 2011. Following a visit to Moneygall earlier in the day, the President returned to Dublin to deliver an address to the crowd.
context_page_description: College Green is a three-sided plaza in the centre of Dublin, Ireland. On its northern side is the Bank of Ireland building, which until 1800 was Ireland's Parliament House. To its east stands Trinity College Dublin. To its south stands a series of 19th-century buildings that are mostly banks.
  Streets leading onto College Green are Dame Street to the west, Grafton Street to the south, and Westmoreland Street to the north. College Green has been used as an assembly point for major political rallies. In the mid-1990s, United States President Bill Clinton addressed a crowd during his visit to Ireland. President Barack Obama spoke at the site in a major address during his visit in May 2011.
context_section_description: Since July 2009, College Green, during peak times on working days, has been accessible only to pedestrians, buses, taxis and cyclists.
  In 2016, plans were published for College Green to be fully pedestrianised, apart from a public-transport lane along the Trinity College side, to create a large public space in front of the Bank of Ireland. However, in October 2018 An Bord Pleanála, the state planning agency, rejected the plan.
caption: Crowds gather on College Green to see U.S. President Barack Obama in 2011.
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