The imminent traffic ban on Capel Street has divided opinions amongst businesses on the eclectic thoroughfare.
Those in favour told Dublin Live recently it brings a positive energy to the street as well as increases footfall to all businesses.
And the results of Dublin City Council surveys agree with them - over 90% of the public, more than 80% of business and 75% of residents responded that "it significantly improved my experience".
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All traffic - apart from delivers between 6am and 11am - will be banned from the street from Friday morning. The biggest change is there will be temporary bollards at the top of Capel Street blocking all traffic from Parnell Street.
The businesses against the change say it will reduce the footfall and stop a lot of their customers coming in who are used to parking in the spaces that are now taken up by build-outs to accommodate tables for bars and restaurants and they say deliveries will be hard to organise in the new time frame.
There also some that say the hospitality on the street has brought in anti social behaviour.
Rory O'Neill, owner of the popular Pantibar, told Dublin Live recently the traffic ban will benefit all businesses and residents.
He said: "I am delighted. There were times over the last 18 months were I didn't think it was going to happen. I think it is going to be great for the area and great for the city. I hope is the start of lots more changes about how the city uses public spaces.
"You may say I might say this but, Capel Street is my favourite street in the city regardless of the fact I have a business on it. Apart from the Spar and the bank, there are no chains on the street, it is all independent small businesses."
Mr O'Neill "absolutely" rejected the idea that business deliveries would be a problem between 6am and 11am.
He said: "This isn't the first pedestrianised street in the world and it is not the first pedestrianised street in Dublin either. Deliveries from 6am to 11am will be absolutely perfect and nowhere on the street will be more than one hundred metres from a parking space. People will adapt."
"If you come back here in a year or two even those who had there doubts will be on board."
The bar owner also rejected the idea that the pedestrianisation will bring anti-social behaviour with it.
He said: "Last summer was a totally unique situation when no one was allowed to socialise indoors so people took to the streets to that in a way that never happened before and will never happen again."
Richie from the Goodwill Thrift Shop is on the fence and wants to see it's impact before making a decision.
He said: "I think time will tell if it's good for business or if it's not. I think it's good for tourism maybe the only problem with the tourism in Ireland is that the price of everything is very expensive which deters people from coming here...hopefully it's good for business. We didn't really notice it [the trial] because of Covid.
"I need to bring stock in every single day. I won't be able to...I know it's in between the hours of 6am and 11am but everyone else gonna be on the same, so there will be a backlog of traffic on the street.
WM Trimmings knitwear shop is concerned about the number of parking spaces and loading bays left for their customers and deliveries after many of the build-outs were built on parking spaces on the street.
They say the trial pedestrianisation and the reduction in parking "has already" effected their foot fall for the worse.
Suzanne O'Connor said: "There were three spaces outside and that went in the summer. That was where a lot of my customers would park and run in and be gone again. It's a nightmare for us."
They also complained about "anti social behaviour" since the pubs started serving outside and street being left "manky".
Paddy Kearns of Louis Copeland's menswear said the footfall on the street will be hit "massively" by the pedestrianisation.
He said: "The pedestrianisation, I feel like it will impact business slightly. A lot of our clients, they like to come in and drive through Capel Street. That will be prohibited in the future. A lot of businesses on Capel Street are bars and restaurants and I feel they will be prohibited also."
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