Professor Brian Caulfield

To the best of my knowledge, yes, it is the only such place.

That in itself, anybody that uses that facility will know that there's very high demand for those spaces.

The idea will be something along those lines that some of the bigger interchanges on the motorway,

that something like that will be there.

Obviously it wouldn't be a Lewis, it would be a bus into the city centre.

So it could help a certain percentage, not everybody, avoid the M50 by being able to decant from their car onto a bus and then have a quicker journey time into the city centre.

They're both really good suggestions.

And to be honest, Matt, I think it's probably a mixture of all of these that would result in some level of congestion reduction.

It's not an option, but there is an option just underneath that question is to tell us your idea.

Tell us how and what you would do if you were in control of the M50.

So far, we've had about 1,500 people do the survey and over 500 of them have put in solutions and what they see as a way to fix the congestion.

I'd like to be optimistic because it's a bank holiday weekend.

Hopefully, yes, when all of this public transport that's on the cards is delivered, that will result in a reduction in congestion.

But I think we're always going to be talking about this motorway.

I think we're always going to be talking about the congestion that's likely to be on it.

And a mixture of some of those solutions that I mentioned, perhaps at some point will have to be enacted in order to operate efficiently.

I think more public transport, the better.

Back in the Celtic Tiger, we did have a plan to build a Metro West, which was going to follow the curvature of the M50, similar to the Metro in the city with the same type of capacity.

That project dropped off the planning when the bubble crashed or the market crashed.

But there is a plan now for a couple of outer orbital Lewis lines as that network starts to expand.