Transport is responsible for 20% of Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions, (2nd only to agriculture), and travel by private car took a whopping 40% slice of that polluting pie. Another trifecta of transport tidings, (apologies, alliteration addict), tells us that… the average car costs us over €10,000 a year to own & operate, has 5 seats but only carries 1.5 people per trip, and spends 1% in congestion, 1.6% looking for parking, 5% driving and 92% parked.
So not only is my car costing me a small fortune, but it’s contributing to the warming climate I’m living in, the traffic jam I’m sitting in, the exhaust fumes I’m breathing in, and 92% of the time it’s something I’m not even in!
Since public and private buses account for less than 3% of transport emissions and carry a lot more than “1.5 people per trip”, why not go by bus or DART instead.
“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.”