Bus Services
Dail Éireann — 2022-10-12
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Aengus Ó Snodaigh (SF), Dublin South-Central

This is similar to the previous topic. It is strange the two were not grouped. The matter concerns Go-Ahead bus services in my area, the 17 and 18 routes, and in other areas across the city. A mistake was made when these services were privatised in the first place, but we are not going into that today. If a schoolchild of 12 or 13 years of age is standing at 7 a.m. in the lashing rain, trying to go to secondary school in Rialto, and the bus does not turn up until an hour later, that is madness. The same happens week in, week out. There is nothing new in this. Despite contacting Go-Ahead previously and despite the services pre-Covid being this bad, it has continued. These are radial services and any other journey would double the time. What is happening now is that most people are abandoning these services, which means they are unviable, and they have to rely on other services.

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Sitting date: 2022-10-12