Dublin should stop traffic on streets passing schools during the week, a Green Party city councillor says.
In the UK, the mayor of Bristol has pledged to shut down traffic outside schools during drop-off and pick-up times in a move to cut air pollution.
Between 1986 and 2016, the share of Irish kids being driven to school rose from under a quarter to sixty per cent, according to the CSO.
Councillor Patrick Costello says school traffic is a huge part of Dublin's congestion problems.
"The NTA say that 30 per cent of the traffic in the morning is the school run -- that has all sorts of consequences, in terms of air pollution, in terms of global warming, and in terms of feeding the congestion in the city," he said.
"We need to look and learn the lessons from Bristol and other British cities that have done this and explore how we can limit the school run, limit traffic outside of school."
