Learning how to safely ride a bike should be taught in classrooms, the Greens urged today.

The Green Party will board a bus today to launch its submission to the Government’s transport strategy.

COMMUTERS will have a say in the future of Dublin’s transportation system for the first time.

Commuters will have a say in the future of Dublin’s transportation system for the first time.

SIGNIFICANT initiatives including the banning of traffic on central routes in Dublin will be needed before the “big dig” for the metro can begin in the capital in 2010, transport planners revealed yesterday.

Dublin bus drivers are fed up with passengers verbally abusing them for being late, an Oireachtas Committee heard tonight.

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.

THE legal status of up to a dozen state bodies established by the Department of Environment is in doubt because of the same legal flaws that put question marks over 19 State bodies in the health area.

Gardaí have announced details of this year’s Operation Free Flow, an annual operation to improve the free flow of traffic in and out of Dublin city centre in the run up to Christmas, which started at 6am this morning.

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.

A SENIOR civil servant has broken ranks to warn that the Government’s multi-billion-euro transport policy will not work in locations where congestion problems are worst.

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

A survey by the Dublin Transportation Office has reportedly found that the introduction of the LUAS has failed to have a significant affect on car usage.

A SCHOOL which has virtually eliminated its waste output and grows its own vegetables was presented with its first green flag yesterday.

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.

A NEW super-authority is to assume responsibility for implementing the Government’s €14 billion programme to improve public transport services in the greater Dublin region.

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

Gardaí and transport chiefs are to meet soon to review the progress of Operation Freeflow, which wound up today.

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.

JUNIOR Transport Minister Ivor Callely is in hot water after being accused of exploiting his office for political gain.

The new €34.4bn transport system unveiled for Ireland will be fully accessible to disabled people, Minister of State Ivor Callely pledged today.

Dubliners are being encouraged to abandon their cars in favour of commuting on foot, bicycle, train, tram and bus as part of an international campaign, it emerged today.

A TRANSPORT summit is to be held to drive forward a multi-billion euro plan that the Government hopes will finally ease Dublin’s chronic traffic congestion.

NOT a single vehicle has been added to the Dublin Bus fleet in the past four years, it emerged yesterday.

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.

Transport Minister Seamus Brennan has reportedly ordered a review of all bus services in the greater Dublin area.

BUSINESSMAN Jim Mansfield has expressed “extreme disappointment” at a decision by An Bord Pleanála to block his plans to build a €50m conference centre at his Citywest hotel and golf complex near Saggart, Co Dublin.

MILLIONAIRE businessman and leading Fianna Fáil supporter, Jim Mansfield, has admitted he was “technically wrong” to begin construction work on a €50m conference centre at his Citywest hotel and golf complex in south-west Dublin without fully-authorised planning permission.

THE 1.28 billion — over 100 million each month — that will be will be poured into the construction of motorways and dual carriageways next year is desperately needed, the Automobile Association declared last night.

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.

BUS lanes are to be introduced in Cork and Galway over the next year in a nationwide expansion which will also see the number of lanes in Dublin double.

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.

A major rail expansion study that will develop a 20-year blueprint for rail infrastructure is to be carried out on behalf of the Department of Public Enterprise.

Dublin could be getting a new super authority that would also have control over strategic planning and public transport in the neighbouring counties of Meath, Kildare and Wicklow.