Transdev loses contract

Wonder if it was "Due to a non luas related incident"

From the article

A french-english consortium Amey and Keolis will take over from Transdev

They operate the DLR and the manchester tram service

Overall we should see no real change

It's such a normal part of Dublin now you would almost forget that prominent people were declaring it would be a white elephant.

at a guess I’ve been on it a dozen or so times over those years. When in Dublin City I used to enjoy a post shopping pint or pre gig pint down in the Dice Bar of occasion so would get it from the centre of town down that way and back…and I’ve also been out to the square once on it….

They made the same mistake as with the Dart, not ambitious enough… only two lines covering a city of this size and population. Look at the Luas map overlaying the city..😵‍💫 Money they’ll argue.. right we are seeing now that money and attaining and ‘investing’ it is possible when the cause is right on, popular, convenient and trendy enough…

Where I live according to google maps I’m 2.4 kilometres from the nearest Luas stop and no really convenient way to get to it, unless I drive. I’m 4.3 kilometres from the nearest Dart station. So neither are of any tangible use.

And it was originally Connex, who became Veolia.

yes and the same people were at the same nonsense when it came to any and all public transport investment.

they got discredited every time not that it stopped them.

they were originally the operator, they got taken over by transdev.

It really depends on where the poster is living. There's no park and ride option available at multiple green line stops, Dundrum, Windy Arbour, Milltown, Beechwood, Ranelagh, Charlsestown etc.

Park and ride is mainly available at the first couple of stops.

Yes it does seem to be an intrinsic belief in a lot of people's minds that there should not be a change over while using public transport. This is common throughout Europe, get off a train/bus to then get onto a tram.

Unfortunately PT hasn't been prioritised in the country for decades and there's many who don't see using one form of it as a valid option, let alone two to make a single journey.

As well as Cork, Galway, surprised Limerick Luas hasn't been mentioned yet!

Say, anything, ANYTHING, negative about the Luas and LXFlyer will be on in its defense. Like his comment to me saying i should have gone back to sandyford, and waited on another impossibly packed tram to go to cherrywood.

I wonder will the change in operator bring about a worsening of the operation of the service.

I fear a hollowing out of the corp of experienced staff. They could be pushed out with deliberately shoddy treatment and conditions so they can replace them with a smaller number of cheaper inexperienced numpties who won't have a clue how to do things.

Absentee management running the show from the UK and not giving a sh!te. Cut backs on maintenance and upkeep. Slipping standards of service delivery and safety. Probably won't be even cleaned as well any more.

Anything run by absentee management is asking for trouble. And when it's UK absentee and rail related that's an even worse omen.

I think this is a mess in the making.