Brian Caulfield

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The Claire Byrne Show · How do you solve a problem like the M50? · 30 Apr 2026 podcast

I think that could work.

And it may not be a bus that would traverse the whole M50.

It might be more likely that, you know, each of the motorways that come into the city, that there will be both a base parking right there, similar to the Lewis at the Red Cow, that you would get off and then you would get on a bus and it would go through the bus corridors to get into the city.

Because that's where I suppose the majority of the trips are heading towards.

It would be a short-term solution.

The longer-term solution, I think, is investing more in the big rail projects, but it could be a very good short-term solution.

And we've seen it used a number of times around the country for big congestion events.

It was used in the Ryder Cup.

It's been used in Waterford.

It's used very effectively in Belfast every day of the week.

So I think we could learn an awful lot from that.

And we've never been good at getting bus-based parking right off the ground.

And it would be great to have some examples of that in and around the M50.

And it could happen pretty quickly.

That's exactly it.

So back in 20, I think 2014, TII actually did a study on this, and it did show that there would be a reduction in congestion.

I suppose it's unpopular with the people that don't pay the toll, and I'm sure the people that do pay the toll, it would be popular that if the love was spread right across the M50.

The way it works is basically it's tried to regulate the demand or flatten the curve of the demand on the M50.

And it would be multiple points and it would be different times of the day, kind of like the Dublin Port Tunnel, that at different points of the day, it has different prices.

But I would imagine it would be very politically unpalatable.

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