Car traffic volumes increased for the fourth consecutive week since November 1 despite Level 5 Covid-19 restrictions, new figures from the Central Statistics Office show today.
The CSO said that car traffic volumes have been increasing consistently since the beginning of November.
For the week starting November 22, they were 3% higher than the previous week at regional locations and 2.9% higher in Dublin.
However, the Covid-19 restrictions continued to have a significant influence on the number of journeys on public transport and travel through Irish airports, which remain at significantly lower levels than the same time in 2019, the CSO added.
Today's Transport Bulletin figures from the CSO show that the number of journeys by bus and rail are 63.2% lower than pre-Covid-19 levels.
But it noted that public transport volumes have risen by 3.1% in the last week of November with rail rising by 3.5% compared with the previous week.
Today's figures also show that the number of passengers travelling through Dublin, Cork, Shannon and Knock airports in the first ten months of 2020 is 76.2% lower than the same time last year.
The total number of passengers handled by those airports in October fell from over 3.291 million to 283,254 - a drop of 91.4% when compared with the same time last year.
The CSO said that HGV traffic volumes remain unaffected by the increased Covid-19 restrictions and exceeded 2019 levels for the 23rd consecutive week in selected Dublin locations
