Budget 2023

I’m familiar with traffic but the fact remains also that you can plan with reasonable accuracy a road route and leave at the most consistent time that ensures punctual arrival.

this is the benefit of your own private car or other transport. Public Transport, as I said & is hardly a secret is very unreliable in Ireland & in my aforementioned years of experience using public transport I’ve only seen inconsistencies in arrival and departure times and very scarcely adhering to the schedule.

if you’re seriously trying to suggest that commuting to work privately would be on par or even below public transport in terms of reliability in arriving to your chosen destination on time.

There’s resources available to any car or whatever it is owner that can give them a heads up about any obstructions or delays on their usual route to [destination] and therefore an opportunity to take an alternative, albeit perhaps slightly slower route, but still save time over driving down the dual carriageway that just had an RTC.

Fair enough you want to basically simp for Public Transport, but the fact remains it is not reliable when compared to public transport. Which, by the way, seeing as it runs very late in almost all cases I can think of (from my own exp YMMW), wouldn’t even then more late as a result of your scenarios of traffic delays and diversions. So either way you still benefit from the private vehicle.

The thing is I absolutely agree that we should try and use public transport more for our journeys when possible, my grandparents in fact use it to travel to town for shopping rather than take the car. But if they have an appointment or need to be here or there by X and not Y, they’ll take the car.

Choose? 17 years of government policy forcing people into commuter belt is NOT a choice

im not sure what public transport you're taking or how far back you're going but (for instance) i commute via train and reliability and punctuality are both excellent.

bus eireann, generally also excellent on both.

private coaches a little bit less reliable alright.

dublin bus isnt something id use with a view to "i must be at my destination at 9 on the dot" or whatever, but then neither would driving be through the city.

id question your slant on things tbh, that doesn't match my experience over the years in any way

if i thought my posts needed translating, rest assured id ask someone with better ability in it than youve demonstrated here

Does not appear to be the case.

or one other one from when I used medical card, if I got a hospital script, I needed to make a doctors app to have it transferred to gms. Such a stupid waste of time for both of us. The pharmacist could do nothing about it & hospitals apparently don’t carry GMS scripts!

Exactly, especially frustrating on weekends!

There’s so many simple things they could change, that would have a big impact, but it’s like they’re afraid.

Most likely, just too lazy.

It works in reverse also. People don’t attend their GP when they should because it costs anywhere from €50-70 for a visit. And often it’s a 2 minute consultation and out you go.

You can’t reasonably assume the practice is booked out with medical card patients because you just don’t know who is or who isn’t booked in or indeed how they’re paying either privately or without a MC.