Gridlock: Dublin's Transport Crisis and the Future of the City

James Wickham comprehensively tackles Dublin's transport crisis and explains why the city's traffic has been reduced to gridlock.

Traffic congestion increases business costs as moving people and goods around the city takes more time. Dubliners complain as traffic jams multiply. Commuting distances and times grow longer. For the government, the solution appears to be competition, yet how this will tackle the problem remains unclear. Worryingly, the prognosis for the future is more cars, more pollution, more suburban sprawl and perhaps a few, irrelevant, presitge public transport.

Gridlock explains how we got into this mess and how the consequences are more far-reaching than originally believed. Not only do more people use cars in Dublin than in most other European cities, but Ireland's capital is becoming more and more car dependent. In other words, living in the city is becoming impossible without a car. With Dublin at standstill, the author asks: 'where does the city go from here?'