No political will to get commuters moving as ‘park and ride’ parked on the long finger

Getting commuters out of their cars and into and out of the centre of Dublin faster is achievable but the political will to break the traffic deadlock  isn’t there.  That’s the conclusion reached by Fine Gael Deputy Michael D’Arcy who says he’s surprised by the Minister for Transport’s laissez faire attitude to a problem that affects so many every day.

Raising the matter of extra park and ride facilities for commuters coming into the city in the Dail recently, Deputy D’Arcy said that commuters, fed up of sitting in their cars making little progress for the last six to 10 miles of their journey, would use park and ride facilities if they were available, particularly if buses were laid on to service car parks and could use the bus lanes into the city.

“Minister Noel Dempsey said he was disappointed at the lack of progress on precisely the kind of park and ride facilitiy I mentioned and said he’d “dearly like to see more park and ride facilities in the vicinity of Dublin,” Deputy D’Arcy said.