Making Bus Eireann stops available to Private Companies.

Xenophile

Bus Eireann Bus Stops should be made available to Private Carriers where possible. I cite two examples here are just two; maybe you can give examples from your area.

Someone travelling from the Kilkenny direction to Clonmel on Kavanaghs’s Bus have to depart the bus at the last stop on the Waterford Road which is outside the old Army Barracks, if the Kavanagh’s service was allowed to continue to the Bus Eireann at Clonmel Railway Station stop which is a considerable distance away commuters would have toilet facilities ( I hope) also a facility to have a small snack and at the same time find it more convenient to make train connections.

The same case for making McDonagh Station in Kilkenny available to Private companies applies.

There is plenty of space at both of these locations.

Victor

There is a general move to shared stops where it makes sense.

In some locations it doesn't make sense, e.g. Bus Éireann hogging the Dublin Bus stop at Connolly Luas for extended periods.

foggy_lad

Victor wrote: »

There is a general move to shared stops where it makes sense.

In some locations it doesn't make sense, e.g. Bus Éireann hogging the Dublin Bus stop at Connolly Luas for extended periods.

They seem to use that area as a bus park rather than a series of stops and the Dublin Buses are always blocked completely from pulling in to the kerb.

Another area is the Red Cow Luas stop which is taken over a lot of the time by the Dublin Coach Company and their massive green buses, again they use the bus bays to park out of service buses and block other services like Bus Éireann and Kavanaghs from properly using the area.

AlekSmart

foggy_lad wrote: »

They seem to use that area as a bus park rather than a series of stops and the Dublin Buses are always blocked completely from pulling in to the kerb.

Another area is the Red Cow Luas stop which is taken over a lot of the time by the Dublin Coach Company and their massive green buses, again they use the bus bays to park out of service buses and block other services like Bus Éireann and Kavanaghs from properly using the area.

Hear hear...But,who is responsible....?....Who Knows...Who Cares ?

Plant a time-lapse camera at the Dublin Bus Westmoreland Street Stop number 320 ....plus the other 6 SEPERATE Bus-Poles erected at the SINGLE marked Bus-Bay,and get a proffessional traffic engineers view of the result....go on,I dare Yiz !! :eek:

Before ANY progress can be made the various "Professionals" need to recieve instruction on the essential differences between a BUS and a COACH,and the services they are adapted to provide...call me when they arrange the first such course ...ZZZzzzzzzzzzz