Road delays cost

DUBLIN -- Every minute of stop-and-go traffic today is magnified by a factor of ten. That's because I'm with a group of ten students en route to a jam-packed day in centre city Dublin. Because our rate of travel has slowed below the running pace Paula Radcliffe has when training, we have to abandon plans for our first activity. It was meant to be a visit to the Straffan Steam Museum where we would see examples of the technology used to push Ireland through the Industrial Revolution and then connect her citizens by rail, electrical cable and telephone wire. We won't see those excellent samples in the Steam Museum because our average speed is no better than 9 mph. It's very ironic that we might have traveled from Naas to Dublin faster in the 19th century than we can do today in the 21st century. ANd because it's slower, we cannot accomplish things we need to do to remain productive.

If we apply this lesson to everyone else who is stuck in gridlocked traffic across Ireland, we have compelling evidence of why Ireland is slipping down the table of international competitiveness.

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