Mr. Conn Donovan:

I spoke about some of the possible solutions. Much of the public awareness is about new cycle routes and new projects that encourage walking and cycling. What we probably need in each of the regional cities and in Dublin is a cycling strategy that sets out where we are going over the next five, six or seven years. It is not just the cycling network but things such as public bike share schemes, the maintenance of cycle paths and bike promotion. One thing that is desperately missing is a modal share target for cycling in cities. The cycling national framework from 2009 had a 10% target for 2020 for all trips to be by bicycle. In Cork we estimate, according to the last census, that it is probably 3.6% in the city and suburbs. Now we have the Cork metropolitan area transport strategy, CMATS, which is forecasting 4% by 2040. We need a target and we must know how we are going there and have a roadmap. We made that part of our public consultation and we brought people along. We could have a way to tell people the story of how we are going to get to where we need to be in a few years' time.