Dublin Transportation Office (DTO) has asked car drivers to make a new year’s resolution to helping to take up to 200,000 cars off roads in the Greater Dublin Area each day.

Around 125,000 children in the greater Dublin area are being driven to school daily, a 6% jump over the last five years, it emerged today.

Four-out-of-10 children in the Greater Dublin area are driven to school every day despite living less than two kilometres away, according to a new survey by the Dublin Transportation Authority.

MOTORISTS were yesterday urged to make one small step towards taking 200,000 car journeys off the road.

HOW to change a national addiction to the car is one of the big challenges facing the government as it attempts to bring about a dramatic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions.

TRAFFIC congestion in Dublin’s city centre was taken into account before the Health Service Executive (HSE) decided to locate the new children’s hospital at the Mater site, it was claimed yesterday.

Websites offering commuters footage of Dublin rush-hour traffic went down today as Operation Freeflow got under way in the capital.

Employees at the Dublin Transportation Office (DTO) are considering whether to hold a strike ballot over fears for the future of their jobs.

An additional 140 garda officers and late night services on buses, the Luas and the DART, are being laid on in Dublin in a bid to tackle traffic congestion in the run up to Christmas.

The head of the Dublin Transport Office has welcomed Transport Minister Martin Cullen’s commitment to make Dublin city centre more pedestrian and bike-friendly.

Getting in and out of the capital this Christmas has been made easier following the launch of a new Dublin Bus initiative.

The Dublin Transportation Office (DTO) has reportedly acknowledged that proposals to link up the city's two LUAS lines pose significant problems for Dublin Bus.

A study conducted by the Dublin Transportation Office claims bus passengers in the city reach their destinations up to 42% faster than motorists.

The Dublin Transportation Office has reported a 2% fall in the number of commuters using their cars to drive to work in Dublin last year.

CONGESTION charges are just one of a range of measures being considered in a bid to free up Dublin’s traffic clogged city centre.

The overseers of the Dublin airport metro link are today rejecting claims that the project is set to run way over time and budget.