Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)

Will the Taoiseach own up to the responsibility first of all, which would be a start? Operation Freeflow had an effect ten years ago. Today it is irrelevant. Before our people have a collective breakdown induced by gridlock, will the Taoiseach introduce emergency investment and measures in the immediate weeks and months ahead? Double the buses in the cities and the quality bus corridors. Double the trains on such lines as exist and rapidly increase the extra lines. Doing so in 2015 is no use. When buses and trains are flying past gridlocked cars and bringing people to their destinations in a third of the time, then we will know that we have begun to resolve this horrific situation. What hope can the Taoiseach offer hard-pressed people throughout the country who are mired in this infrastructural crisis?

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