Mr. Hugh Creegan:

It was unsuccessful then. I am not saying it might not be a little better now. We looked around the Coolagh roundabout on that side of the city. There was a big attraction to putting a site off that roundabout if that could be achieved. It would connect straight away to the city bus service we are putting in under that strategy. That would mean people could hop on a bus that hopefully would be coming every ten minutes into Parkmore Estate. More importantly, one could hop on a bus going the other direction through the city centre to the university, hospital and so on. There were many attractions to that site as part of the overall package. I am not saying we cannot look at the city airport again but that is why we thought the other site was better.

A question was asked about school transport. With the bus system proposed in that network, we set out how many schools suddenly come within walking distance of that network. At present, only approximately half the schools are within a walkable distance of a bus route. Under the revised system, 93% of the secondary schools would be within ten minutes, or much less in most cases, of a bus route. That gives the tremendous opportunity to at least explore the chance of secondary school kids being able to use bus transport to get to school. That is in addition to the cycling network it is proposed to develop. There has been a reasonable degree of consideration in that regard. Those are the main points.