Wednesday 20 October, 2021
With fewer people commuting to work, how will public transport finances and services look in future?
Dublin Bus, Bus Éireann and Irish Rail are operating revised schedules.
It comes three months after Bus Éireann announced the closure of a number of its intercity routes for financial reasons.
Over 97,600 children are being transported daily to school.
Eamon Ryan confirmed that €460 million is needed to keep public transport running until the end of the year.
Services between Dublin and Cork, Galway, Limerick and Belfast will be affected.
TD Mattie McGrath said that the ‘archaic’ system was facing a worrying backlog.
The Department of Education said it had taken the decision following advice from NPHET.
Compliance across various services ranges from 40% to 98%, the National Transport Authority has said.
Phase Two begins tomorrow, but people are still advised to only use public transport when necessary.
The National Bus and Rail Union wants a number of measures introduced to guarantee worker welfare.
The company said it is rolling out face visors to drivers this week as an interim measure.
Passenger figures across the rail, bus and tram network in Ireland increase last year.
NTA CEO Anne Graham said that overall fare revenue will increase by “less than 2%”.
This represents 0.04% of the number of people who travelled on the service that year.
The company said it was looking into potential future locations given expected passenger growth.
The measures come after drivers threatened to stop operating services after 8pm on Monday 16 September.
It comes after a driver was allegedly assaulted at the station in recent weeks.
The driver of the bus, aged in his 60s, received minor injuries.
Bus Éireann has since apologised and compensated the family, which had to pay for a taxi to the capital.
A new anti-racist campaign was launched at Heuston station where trains, the Luas, and Dublin Bus operate from.
Judge Gerald Keys said that the video of the incident which occurred in June 2016 “speaks for itself”.
n 2018, it carried 83.6 million passengers – a marginal increase on the previous year.
The national bus service has been in operation for over 30 years.
The School Transport Scheme transports children who reside in remote areas of the country to and from their nearest school.
The discovery was made on the 233 service from Cork to Macroom on Monday morning.
That’s an increase of almost 19 million (17%) compared to 2017, according to provisional NTA figures.
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The company wants 2019 to be the “year of the customer”.
Translink and Bus Éireann both share operations of the Dublin to Belfast X1 and X2A bus service.
Work crews have been attempting throughout the day to clear roads and rail lines across the country.
More than a third of the buses tested had ‘major or dangerous defects’.
More than 50,000 people are set to descend upon Stradbally in Laois for the biggest event of the Irish festival calendar.
The taxi driver changed the routine after he bought a new car.
Irish Rail expects all train tickets to the capital on 26 August to be snapped up within days.
The customer said the incident took place on Friday.
Suzy Byrne is one of five people with experience of disability issues to join transport boards.
The badge will hopefully see more people giving up their seats for pregnant people on public transport.
Ray Hernan had been in the position since November 2016.
The married father of three pleaded guilty to sexual assault at an unknown location on the N68 route linking Kilrush to Ennis.
