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Cost of public transport in Dublin/Ireland

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    #62
    bk
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,484 Mod ✭✭✭✭bk


    homerjay2005 wrote: »
    how much in total did Dublin Bus spend in 2011 and how much profit/loss did they make do you know?

    You can find all of DB's annual reports here:

    http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/about-us/Reports/Annual-Reports/

    They made a lose of 18 million in 2011 and are carrying an accumulated loss of 48m in 2011.

    For 2011:
    Operating costs: 270m
    Revenue (mostly fares): 178m
    PSO Grant: 73m


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    #63
    KD345
    Registered Users Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭KD345


    homerjay2005 wrote: »

    yes, value for money. personally having to pay 4.40 to go 4 stops and have a to wait 47 minutes in total, is just disgraceful to be honest.

    Can I ask what bus route you're referring to?

    The only €4.40 fare is on Xpresso routes and you'd want to be traveling a lot more than 4 stops to hit that fare. Even then, you could travel cheaper using a prepaid ticket or Leap Card


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    #64
    homerjay2005
    Registered Users Posts: 29,346 ✭✭✭✭homerjay2005


    KD345 wrote: »
    Can I ask what bus route you're referring to?

    The only €4.40 fare is on Xpresso routes and you'd want to be traveling a lot more than 4 stops to hit that fare. Even then, you could travel cheaper using a prepaid ticket or Leap Card

    that was dart. the same return bus journey about 15 mins each way is €4.80 by the way into city center.
    bk wrote: »
    You can find all of DB's annual reports here:

    http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/about-us/Reports/Annual-Reports/

    They made a lose of 18 million in 2011 and are carrying an accumulated loss of 48m in 2011.

    For 2011:
    Operating costs: 270m
    Revenue (mostly fares): 178m
    PSO Grant: 73m

    cheers, to say those figures are shocking is an understatement..paying the Ce almost 200k is just disgraceful.
    Included in Wages and Salary costs is an amount of €188,150 paid to Mr. P. Doherty, Chief Executive.
    total operating cost of €270,139,000 of which €181,167,000 was spend on payroll.

    3345 employees receiving on average just under 55k each.
    losses of €91,828,000 of which €73,032,000 was paid for by the state.

    how is such a badly run company being allowed to continue like this? wouldnt a wage cut of 15-20% help to cut these loses and not force the public to over pay for such a poor service?


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    #65
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users Posts: 17,552 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    We are talking Booterstown to Pearse I take it?

    You keep saying only 4 stops. 4 stops on a commuter rail journey is not exactly down the road!!

    What was the reason for the waiting time? What time of the day was it, and was it a Sunday?

    Did you check the timetable beforehand?

    As pointed out above the bus fare drops to €4.20 using LEAP and the train to €3.90 for the return journey.

    You are ignoring the fact that the differential between cash fares and LEAP fares is being slowly artificially increased to make using cash less attractive.


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