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paulboland wrote: »

The solution is sorting expressway bus service and increasing Bus Eireann transport service with more Buses to counties outside Dublin and make them PSO routes instead of been a commercial operation.

There seams to be lot of confusion and lot public not knowing the difference between Bus Eireann Public Transport Service and Expressway Bus Service

Expressway Bus Service is not public transport service it's a commercial bus operation and is totally separate from Bus Eireann
Expressway Bus Service is the same as private bus service it's not funded by the tax payer and is only run to make a profit it's not subsidized in any way by the tax payer
Don't confuse Expressway with Bus Eireann main service the Public transport service to provide transport outside Dublin

CIE = Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann the Public transport service for the Rep of Ireland and is owned by the citizens of Ireland

The lack of understanding is annoying and seams to come from Dublin bus users not knowing the difference and private bus operators with their own agenda to try get the Public service routes that are profitable (You won't be getting these routes forget about it)

I'm amazed at the lack of knowledge as to what Bus Eireann Public transport service is
Bus Eireann public transport service PSO routes will not be privatized for that to happen Dublin Bus and Dart and Irish Rail would also have to be privatized and would require the permission of Irish citizens to change public transport service to a private transport service


Population of Ireland is 4.8 million
Dublin population is only 1.3 million
Outside Dublin the population is 3.5 million and Bus Eireann is the Public transport service for these 3.5 million but has serious lack of public transport to cover these 3.5 million population

Dublin has Dublin Bus and Dart and Luas and Irish Rail as public transport but has less population than outside Dublin has

Bus Eireann is the only public transport service in a lot of counties with no private bus service and also a lot of counties outside Dublin has no train service

What is needed is more Bus Eireann public service routes + the essential Expressway service routes changed to public transport and the non essential expressway routes given to private bus operators but they would unlikely consider looking for a licence to operate in

Dublin Bus gets more public funding than what Bus Eireann gets that's crazy with a bigger population outside Dublin getting less funding.

Public Transport is essential service it's the citizens of Ireland transport service and we fund it through taxes and use of the service with fares it's not meant to be making a profit it's a public service.

If the public transport service was privatized you would have a lot of towns have no bus service at all as private bus operators would not provide a bus service as a lot of the routes to them would not be profitable.

You don't even get off peak hours bus service on most of the routes private bus operators do at the moment they are only interested in peak hours to supply a bus service


I actually consider Bus Eireann Public transport service more essential than Dublin Bus Service


Dublin Bus users your only a small amount of the population of Ireland compared to the population outside Dublin

The wildcat strike on Friday 31st of March was a minor inconvenience compared to what the population outside Dublin have been experiencing the past 16 days it don't even close to the same struggle commuters outside Dublin have been having.


There is counties and Towns outside Dublin with huge population and has no train service at all yet some areas in Dublin and outside Dublin with less than 1/4 of the population have a train service

Example Navan Co Meath has no Train Service but is the biggest growing population town in Ireland

It's cost me in the past 15 days €480.00 in Taxis to get to and home from Work I have no private bus service to my work location as in nothing
Bus Eireann is my only Bus Service

Private Bus from Navan to Dublin only provides a few buses during peak hours and no bus from Dublin to Navan until 13.00 as in 1PM

Public transport service funded by the tax payers is extreme important as it to provide a bus service during both Peak hours and Off Peak Hours

Not everyone works 9-5 a lot work night shifts and during off peak hours so a Bus Service that provides bus transport during off peak hours is essential for the country

A private bus operator will not provide a bus service during off peak hours

Don't wish for our Public transport service be privatized you will have a service that will be of no use to a lot of the population and cause serious issues for a lot of people.

captainspeed wrote: »

As a fellow Corkonian, the impression locally was always that Bus Éireann never gave two hoots about Cork. Their actions speak for themselves, remember how they removed double decker buses from the city 20 odd years ago and replaced them with single deckers? When I was growing up, the number 10 (as it was then) used to have double deckers every now and again, then it became a once in a blue moon occurrence, then they just disappeared like that. I remember how much of a nightmare it used to be coming home from school on the number 2, again a problem that could have been easily solved if they had bought double deckers like they did in Dublin. I remember at one stage there were buses going around Cork in Dublin Bus colours, but they were actually Bus Éireann buses - I know because I went on one of them once! That kind of attitude says it all about how much Bus Éireann ever cared about Cork. I believe I read somewhere that the only reason there are now double deckers in Cork (and the other provincial cities) is because the NTA made Bus Éireann bring them back to Cork and the regional cities.