Brian Caulfield

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189 appearances 3 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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The Last Word with Matt Cooper · Is There Any Solution To The M50’s Traffic Problems? · 25 Jun 2026 podcast

Well, I suppose it depends on how serious government and policymakers see this as a crisis that's happening on our busiest road.

We're able to move mountains during COVID.

So if we take it from that perspective, you know, finding and identifying sites for park and ride has been done several times by policy planners and transport planners in the city.

So that wouldn't be that difficult to do.

And then we have, you know,

It's then putting the extra buses that we have that could then alleviate the congestion, get people from those park and ride sites, get them to skip the M50 and get those buses into the city centre.

Not saying that they would traverse the M50, but they would go directly into the city centre using the bus network, the bus corridor network.

Again, it would depend upon the size.

So to give some example, say, for example, Metro, when that's constructed, that will have a 3,000 space park and ride at Estuary, just north of the airport.

So that's, I suppose, the volume for that.

For Metro, you would hope so, that that will be big enough.

And the planning has been done and the modelling has been done to indicate that.

But it's a legitimate concern.

If you look at the Lewis park and ride sites, they're constantly full equally with the Dart.

But I suppose one of the things that those transport planners don't want to do is have more and more people driving to one location and then getting on public transport.

And coming from further distances, I suppose they want people on public transport from A to B. But 3,000 spaces, I suppose that is a very significant investment for that.

In terms of the M50, yeah, it could be 200, 300 spaces.

Again, analysis needs to be done on it.

But as the Deputy said, there are park and ride sites that have been planned as part of the Bus Connects network.

And those are the ones that should be expedited.

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