[Article] Pay and Display on the way

[Mark Hennessy]

You conveniently ignore the car share option I raised, which would halve the cost potentially.

Re Newbridge, I suspect you could cycle to Newbridge from anywhere within the town in 15-20 minutes. I challenge anyone in the peak to - legally and safely - drive to Newlands Cross in that time.

I'm not ignoring it. All of your alternatives are perfectly valid, alas most people will not choose to use them and will migrate back to their cars. The car share is a great idea.

I walk to my station but i'm in the very lucky position of only being 10 minutes away from it. Given a moderately bad Irish day in winter, do you honestly see walking or cycling as a possibility before you board a potentially packed train to work if you have at least a 20 minute cycle ahead of you?

Also how many stations have fully operational and secure bike racks?

There are plenty of alternatives, however commuters are not being offered any alternatives beyond paying CIE to maintain the status quo.