As population density grows, commuters find more of their time is being taken up by their daily journeys.
One Dublin family have their morning routine down to a fine art. To make their daily commute the Kenny family from Knocklyon need to make every minute count or they will be late.
Jessie and John Kenny are only too aware that minutes lost now can mean being an hour late for school. Jessie is headed for Rathmines while John goes all the way to the city centre. They spend more than 12 hours a week on the number 15 bus.
The first challenge is getting out of Knocklyon. By 7.15 am, the roads around Knocklyon are already jammed. This is just one area suffering from a basic fact of city life, too many people, too many cars and not enough buses.
The population has grown from three to twenty thousand in ten years.
John Kenny says that one day recently he got the bus at 7.30 am and only arrived at school at 9.45 am.
Transport planning is not the only thing lacking in Knocklyon. The suburb has no local community school resulting in young people from the area having to travel to 17 different schools.
An RTÉ News report broadcast on 28 October 1998. The reporter is Margaret Ward.
