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

We should stop all the road expansion on the approach roads to Dublin. These are the only projects that are going ahead and they will make the problem of gridlock in Dublin worse. We should use that money to provide a high-quality public transport solution which tackles the Sandyford issue and gives us the capacity we need. It would also bring UCD together with Trinity College and DCU and transform the UCD campus and the city. It would also offer the prospect of heading west. We should start creating a capital ideas Dublin where we are not stuck in cars and where we have the same quality public transport system as Copenhagen, Berlin, Athens and every other city. Why should we not think big about public transport in Dublin? Will the Taoiseach ask the NTA to look at the option of running the metro to UCD and Sandyford as a way of addressing that issue and giving us the option of a proper public transport system for this city?

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