Seanad debates

Thursday, 14 November 2002

Rail Services and Related Transport Matters: Statements.

 

There is a new mix needed here. Previous Transport Ministers might have lectured the country about not buying cars and using public transport, but that is changing. Everybody will probably own a car at the end of the day. You will not stop them. However, they will have to realise that they cannot use the car all the time. They will have to get out of it sometime and get on the bus corridor, get on the trains, get on the metro when we get it and get on the Luas. I am told, for example, that once the bus routes on the Stillorgan Road were the preserve of certain people but now you can get on a bus and find people in pin-strip suits, with laptops, on their mobile phones doing business, etc. I even hear of ideas about booking seats on some of those buses. The point I am making is there is a new approach to public transport which we must take into account.

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