How do you travel to work? If I'm going to meetings out of the office, as is often the case, I'll bring the car. If I can survive during the day without the car, I will get the bus.

How long does it take? It can take from 20 minutes by car, if I can avoid the morning peak traffic, to 40 minutes by bus or car between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. There is no QBC quality bus corridor on the route, so journey times are a little longer than they might be.

What time do you leave home? I tend to try to avoid the morning peak, which means leaving by 7.30 a.m. if I have an early meeting or after 8.30 a.m. on other days, when the heaviest traffic has passed.

What time do you arrive home? Generally, I finish work after 7 p.m., which at least means that I miss the heaviest evening traffic. That usually means I can get home by 7.30 p.m. or so most evenings.

Do you travel the same route every day? Yes, unless someone can find a quicker route to St Stephen's Green from where I live!

What do you enjoy about the commute? I try not to see commuting time as "down time", although sometimes it is hard to think like that. When sitting on a bus, or stopped at lights when in the car, you get to review the previous day in work and maybe plan ahead for the coming day. I guess I am reasonably lucky, in that I have a relatively short commute from Dundrum.

What bothers you most about your commute? It really annoys me when so many Irish drivers seem to be oblivious to road position and lane placement. This can block traffic, turn a two-lane junction into a one-lane junction, impinge on cycle lanes or bus lanes and generally lengthen journey times. If people decide that they can take the bus or cycle to work, then we should encourage them and not have other road users try to bully them.

Would you change your mode of transport if you could? Absolutely, and I look forward to Luas operating in two years' time, so that I can use that.

How could your journey be improved? At the risk of beating a DTO drum, it could be improved by the continued delivery of our strategy for the city, A Platform for Change. This will see more capacity on public transport, especially rail; major infrastructure projects being built; and, overall, better management and prioritisation of the transport network. In the shorter term, I'd settle for drivers staying in lane and keeping bus and cycle lanes clear.

In conversation with Sylvia Thompson