Sir, - My employer is based in the Upper Baggot Street area which means that, without the use of a car (or a place to park it), I would be forced to make four separate bus journeys each day just to get to work and home again. This would be prohibitive enough, even if reliable public transport were available - which we all know (and as Dublin Bus and Iarnrod Eireann have publicly acknowledged) is not the case.Also, my job regularly requires me to work late hours, which would entail a long wait each evening in a dark and quiet street which is a known locale of drug addicts and has been the scene of numerous syringe-point attacks and a recent well-publicised (and still unsolved) murder case.While everyone accepts traffic congestion in and around Dublin must be reduced, I find it truly appalling that the Government has made no effort to provide a realistic alternative in the form of additional public transport. Indeed it has done nothing but introduce measures which are increasingly punitive, draconian and - as evidenced by the losses being incurred (to the taxpayer) by the "clamping" operation - ultimately ineffective.At minimum, immediate steps must now be taken to retain the few remaining areas of (unrestricted) on-street parking so that, while there might be a reasonable expectation that people living on DART routes or those who have only to make single-bus journeys will reduce their car usage, there will at least remain a limited amount of parking for people who still must use their cars to get to work, even if it means having to get up at 5 or 6 a.m. each morning to compete for the limited spaces in question.Otherwise, one can only conclude that the Government's objective is to increase unemployment, for workers must start asking themselves whether throwing in the towel and joining the dole queues is not better than being mugged while waiting in an unsafe area for a non-existent bus.Maybe our elected representatives are too preoccupied with the contents of little brown envelopes to care about a trifling thing like that? - Yours, etc.,Anne Smyth, Dublin 10.