Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 23 April 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Ireland's Climate Change Assessment Report: Discussion
11:00 am
Professor Brian Caulfield:
For example, in this city, the Pathfinder Project is going to free up a lot of space in the city centre that needs to be freed up to enable buses to be competitive with the car. We need to have the BusConnects corridors. A total of 23 of them are now through planning and have permission and they need to start construction. When they come online, that type of priority needs to be put in place. We, in transport, need to do everything really quickly.
We need to do electric vehicles. That will lock us in to car ownership into the future and we will end up with a lot more problems that we have not seen, but that is maybe where 60% of the emissions reduction are planned to come from, that is, from selling more cars.
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