Professor Brian Caulfield:

I agree. For our transport plans in Dublin with the metro and in Cork with light rail, we cannot hold those cities to ransom while we wait for these big infrastructure projects to be delivered. In all cities, BusConnects can deliver a lot of change, but it needs to be rolled out with the kind of stick approach as well. The stick is to basically give these modes of transport the space they require in order for them to be competitive with the car. Once the modes are competitive, what we have seen internationally is that the mode change starts to occur.