Dublin Bus is offering €15,000 for ideas from members of the public on how to improve the bus system. Dublin’s public transport dysfunction has been diagnosed exhaustively for years. In London in the mid-2000s, and Stockholm a few years earlier, congestion pricing was introduced at a later stage in the reform process. Then, once reliability is somewhat achieved, introduce congestion pricing as a reinforcement rather than a punishment. It needs a city willing to decide, in practice rather than through competitions, to give public transport the right of way.

Source: The Irish Times January 26, 2026 15:06 UTC