That would indeed be a far better solution and would kill multiple birds with the same stone. It is just a pity that every government is so hideously short-sighted when it comes to public transport. The sad fact is that the majority of people would much rather sink 20 grand into a car than spend a quarter of that in taxes on public transport infrastructure. Then we wonder why the average house price in Dublin is somewhere around 8 times the medium income.
Where else would it be front page news on a national newspaper that a state-owned bus company had just bought 20 new buses (as was the case last February)? And the begrudgers then were all out moaning at the cost of them.
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