The overwhelming majority of people want traffic restrictions on Dublin's Parliament Street and Capel Street to be made permanent according to the results of a public consultation.
Overall more than 90% of respondents said the trial pedestrianisation had "significantly improved" their experience of the streets.
Dublin City Council carried out surveys which received nearly 7,000 responses from members of the public, businesses and residents following 17 weeks of traffic free evenings at weekends.
However support for permanent traffic restrictions was lower among residents and businesses.
A council report stated that options will be examined before they are put for formal consideration early next year.
"It is clear that from the residents, businesses and the general public that there is a strong desire to see a change from the current traffic arrangements to new arrangements with less traffic."
As part of Covid-19 restrictions, extra space was created for pedestrians and outdoor dining on the streets.
Starting in June, the streets were also traffic free on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings from 6.30pm to 11.30pm for a total of 17 weeks before being ended on 3 October.
A non-statutory consultation carried out afterwards found that for Capel St, 94% respondents found the changes amounted to a significant improvement with many saying the atmosphere was calmer, the air cleaner and it was better for outdoor dining.
However 19% of 137 residents on the street stated that there had been a disimprovement, with many of those saying that noise and anti social behaviour had been a problem.
On Parliament Street, while 92% overall thought traffic-free evenings had been a significant improvement, 28% of residents on the street and 18% of side-street businesses disagreed.
When it came to future options, most of the 6,957 respondents were in favour of both streets being traffic free except for morning deliveries - as in the case of Grafton St.
For Capel St, the report stated "the public were strongly in favour of seeing a full 7 day a week traffic-free arrangements allowing for deliveries, whilst businesses were more split with some preferring to just have the arrangement in place at evenings".
For Parliament St, most members of the public - 88% - also supported it being traffic-free.
However the report stated that while residents and businesses on the street also support a traffic free arrangement, the majority was lower.
"Approximately a quarter of businesses who responded would prefer that one lane of traffic is maintained."
The report cautioned that restrictions on traffic had not yet been tried out during the day or during weekdays and that the effect on surrounding streets of any future option would have to be considered.
It also found that pedestrians are already the largest group of people using both streets with Parliament St also attracting a high number of cyclists.
It also stated that any proposal would have to be "self-enforcing" and not require traffic management staff to be on-site.
North Inner City Councillor Janet Horner of the Green Party said "the consultation sends a really strong message to the Council about the direction Dubliners want our city to go in: we want traffic-free and people-friendly streets to enjoy."
