'It’s cheaper for me to have a car sitting doing nothing most of the time for occasional usage than it is to get public transport'
A woman taking part in Belfast’s first citizens’ jury on car dependency says it was cheaper to drive there, than get the bus or train.
The Whitehead woman did some sums to figure out her cheapest way into Belfast for the two-day event at the weekend. “There are other issues as well,” she added. “My son is a chef and was working in the city centre. He would finish work about 10 o’clock and he couldn’t get a bus or train ‘til gone 11 so he had to stand around for an hour at that time of night. That really prohibits him working in a city centre restaurant.”
“That was not an accident. Choices were made over the last 50-60 years that have led us [here] and they learned why it is so important this issue is addressed. Michael Lorimer, from the Inclusive Mobility and Transport Advisory Committee , said the jury is “part of that wider debate we need to have about the impact of car dependency on our society and the inequalities that creates”.
“Nobody is anti-car but... we are subsidising car use in deaths, injuries on our roads, blighted communities..
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