Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Ports Development: Discussion
Mr. Barry O'Connell:
I will put this into context. We have also looked at the data on this. If we look at HGV traffic as a percentage of total traffic on the M50 on any given day it is approximately 7%. When we look at the key drivers of congestion it is not necessarily HGVs. By their nature hauliers will not look to run into traffic and congestion. They will look to come early and go late and work around the traffic. This is not to suggest for a moment that we can just sit back and take this lightly. We are looking at digitisation as well when we look to the future to see how we manage traffic and staging. We do this in conjunction with the NTA and TII to see how we manage the increase in traffic that will come as a result of the increased capacity we expect in the port.
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