Ms Mary Rose Burke:

We support the city advancing as a cycle city. However, while cycling is a solution for a large number of people, not everybody can do it. It is not accessible to everyone. It is part of the solution but it is not one or the other. We need public transport, including bus lanes, the DART and a metro, and we need cycling lanes. However, the last will not provide the solution in and of itself. Some of the proposals the Deputy mentioned would have our support, but things like the Trinity plaza have to be done in a joined-up way. It cannot be piecemeal. We have to ask what cycling there means for car access and the businesses which are impacted. It has to be a comprehensive and coherent plan which looks at all of the elements. Doing it piecemeal will discredit some of the initiatives and it will not work.