Public transport the answer to road carnage

I’M SURPRISED that the issue of public transport has not featured more prominently in media debates and features on road safety.

Catching the tail-end of comments regarding road safety on Today FM’s The Last Word (July 2), the usual suspects — drink-driving, boy racers and the poor condition of some country roads — were reiterated by callers as the primary causes of road deaths.

As I approached a two-mile tailback recently at the Jack Lynch tunnel, consisting mostly of driver-only vehicles, an O2 advert for office functions on mobile phones asked: ‘Tired of being stuck in traffic? Why not change the way you work?’