John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This is not the first time that my colleagues have called for this, nor is it a recent development. Back in the day, I regularly called for the connection of the red and green lines. The obvious approach is to connect those two and bring them back into the city again.

For a vast swathe of the city, the reprofiling of the MetroLink project offers a once in a lifetime opportunity for the Government to invest hard-earned taxpayers' money into areas where there is a significant lack in the provision of public transport and where the National Transport Authority, NTA, is attempting to shoehorn BusConnects into front gardens and business premises along the affected routes.

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