Do bus licenses specify frequency?

Mrs OBumble · 10-01-2012 12:22am #1

Galway Indo's Facebook page says

"City Direct just confirmed it is to run a new service on the Seamus Quirke Road running from the Western Distributor Road towards the city, every 30 minutes. The company applied to run a 15-minute frequency service but were refused permission"

I'm curious: I knew routes had to be licensed, and that this included details like the garda approving bus-stop locations.

But does the license also specify service-frequency for non-subsidised services?

Why would the NTA turn down what would surely be a far better service?

Victor · 10-01-2012 5:19am

Most licences tend to specify a timetable. Some occasional licences wouldn't.

The NTA may have viewed it as taking passengers away from a service that they subsidise.

Mrs OBumble · 10-01-2012 1:28pm

Even thought that subsidised service is grossly inadequate for the number of people it's serving, and there's a huge area that the subsidised company totally ignored, which is why the private-sector operator got started in the first place. :rolleyes:

I'm convinced that if they put a couple of 15-minute frequency routes out there, it would be a route-9 success story all over again.

Do bus licenses specify frequency?

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