Commuters experiment with car-free journeys

Commuters experiment with car-free journeys

10.9.2008

Employees in Dublin are starting a month-long experiment today to leave their cars at home and explore greener methods of commuting.

A total of fifteen of the city's biggest employers are participating in the trial, including Vodafone, Irish Life Permanent and Allied Irish Bank.

The programme is the brainchild of the Dublin Transportation Office (DTO), which believes that 200,000 journeys could be saved daily from workers giving up their cars for just one day a week, the Irish Times reported.

A poll conducted by the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association (Isme) recently found that 52 per cent of Dubliners drive to work but 40 per cent of these are willing to try other methods of transport.

"When we did the first survey a year ago, a lot of people said they had to have the car, there was nothing they could do about it. That is slowly changing," commented John Henry, director of the DTO.

The DTO was set up in 1996 to provide transport advice to organisations in the Irish capital.

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