Brian Caulfield
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That's exactly it.
There's too much traffic on it.
And in the past 20 years, the population of the GDA has increased by about 20%.
And over the same time period, the population of cars on the island has increased by 40%.
So too much traffic, not enough space.
We need to do something about the demand.
So there are a number of options and our centre in Trinity have launched a survey today to ask people what they think of these options.
The first one would be to introduce high occupancy vehicle lanes.
You see that in North America where two or more people would be able to use a particular lane.
Obviously this would mean not constructing a new lane that would be taking one away.
The other one and the most obvious one and probably the most effective but not the quickest would be to invest more in public transport.
Another one would be to put in bus-based park and ride across the M50.
You could also look at ways to reduce the impacts that collisions have by having better response management.
You could increase the capacity on adjacent roads so people don't have to use the M50.
And then the last two are one would be to have multiple tolling points on the M50.
So far at the moment, we've only got one.
And then the final one will be to give people more information on the congestion they're likely to expect on the motorway.
That could be a potential.
It's not one I think is a very good idea.
If history has taught us anything in this country, when we do this, basically build it and they will come and the roads will fill up with more traffic.