How To Tackle Dublin's Traffic Mess

1. Proceed as soon as possible with the surface elements of the Luas -Tallaght to O'Connell Street and Sandyford to St Stephen…

1. Proceed as soon as possible with the surface elements of the Luas -Tallaght to O'Connell Street and Sandyford to St Stephen's Green - while the underground studies proceed.

2. Accelerate the introduction of quality bus corridors. (£10 million would pay for the remaining 10 routes.)

3. Give Dublin Bus £30 million to buy new buses. (Most new buses cost about £170,000 off the shelf: this would provide an extra 176 buses.)

4. Provide better facilities for cyclists by allocating £15 million for completion of the cycleway network.

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5. Make company cars perks so unattractive that firms will find other ways of rewarding staff. At the same time, allow them to give out tax-deductable free commuter tickets.

6. Impose benefit-in-kind tax on off-street car parking spaces.

7. Abolish tax incentives for multi-storey car parks and limit them to park-andride sites to encourage more use of public transport.

8. Provide Arrow-type train service on both the Western Suburban Line from Maynooth and the Northern Suburban Line from Dundalk.

9. Give £10 million to Dublin Corporation for "environmental traffic cells" in the city centre; proceed as soon as possible with the £30 million relief routes, sanctioned by the Government.

10. Deregulate the market for taxis in the city.