Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I could give a very long answer, but two things come to mind. We need to go back to the future. If we look at a map of Dublin in the 1910s or 1920s, we can see it probably had the most extensive public transport network of any city in the world. It was rail-based by and large, specifically trams. The 11 was a tram, as were the 15 and 14. We all know this. We have shown we can do it. For a city with a very small population, which back than was probably only 300,000 or 400,000, it was able to function with a public transport-based system.