Potential for €10 congestion charge, parking increases of 400% and a 20kmh reduction in speed limits

Nothing wrong with trains and trams....the answer is to do both, build the public transport and also make life easier for people with cars. That's how you increase the standard of living!

Rural Ireland will never have a good public transport system due to low population density and that is just a fact.

First of all I'd ask why she's set up her life so that she has to be driving around like that every day. Anyway the proposed measures wouldn't affect her, no one is taking your car, relax. This is what's called "concern trolling", people use disabled and old people too for this.

they're trying to make moving people around more efficient and cleaner

I didn’t state that the Green Party only has flexi time- don’t know where you’re getting that from. And my comments were focused on those who don’t live near their workplace- of course being in a city will be easier to commute- I’m not talking about those in a city- they’re fine- it’s everyone else that has a challenge getting into the city from outside of Dublin

they are completely unrelated charges to what is being discussed. there are more cars on the road now than ever so they're not doing very well at pricing people out of cars either.

By car or school bus transport maybe? Congestion charges and increased city centre car parking is irrelevant in this scenario.

Heard Jack Chambers on the radio about this earlier.

We're going to have not one but two consultation processes on these measures before any decisions are made.

Meanwhile the need for reductions in emissions will become greater the longer its postponed.

A bit like our approach to building public transport infrastructure. Just push it further into the future.

We're also unlikely to see much reasoned debate. Introduction of a congestion charge but what about people in donegal or the woman in rural Ireland.

Emer Higgins (FG) was on radio earlier. Some of her constituents have to wait over an hour between buses to the city centre while the main road into dublin is just a stones throw away.

I'd broadly be in favour of these measures once viable alternatives are in place. Trains, buses, trams etc are already full. Bus companies finding it hard to get drivers etc.

If the government were serious about climate change, a short term solution until infrastructure is built could be going back to the days of the pandemic and telling businesses that their employees should work from home where possible. Another solution would be increasing funding of public transport to a point that would support a wage point where supply of bus drivers equals demand for such skills.

Two carrot options there but we're more likely to see the stick first.

He can bring all the memos he likes until he's blue in the face. The people will decide how far is far enough.

And if he wants to get them on side for any of this stuff, he had better start providing quality, safe, reliable and economical public transport.

Its been said many times on these pages, the fact there is zero light or heavy rail under construction in this Country as we speak, is a disgrace and an example of Ryan's failed balance of policy.

I found myself trying to forgo the car on a the Sunday of our last Bank Holiday to go to a matinee Theatre showing in Dundrum. I live in Blackrock, a 15 minute car journey.

I took the dart into town (20 minutes) and a luas to Dundrum (20 + ish minutes). The bus service by the way between both these villages is literally non existent.

On the way home a luas pulled up which looked like a Tokyo bullet train, everyone left stranded on the platform, over 10 minutes to the next one which would no doubt be just as bad given everyone had to get on the next luas.

Took a punt and decided to go in search of a bus, 20 minutes to next bus down the ways in the village, got off on the N11 and just gave up and got a taxi home. The whole thing was just a joke. They will NEVER ever get people to use public transport as the defacto option if this is the alternative to a very short car ride.

As for rural Ireland? where do you even begin. This Country continually fluffs such basics, its an embarrassment.

The same people you said would have the works in fairview shut down by the end of last September? Looooool never gets old.

Also it's FFFGs fault for our awful public transport for ignoring it for 100 years in power.