Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation
Dail Éireann — 2024-10-17
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Paul McAuliffe (FF), Dublin North-West

I want to raise with the Tánaiste the policy of the National Transport Authority, NTA, which, for the past ten years, has been trying to remove the number 11 bus. It was successfully resisted in 2014 but was unfortunately put back on the table again in 2017. Despite multiple changes and the addition of Wadelai Park and Home Farm back on the route, but only on an hourly basis, and then back to a full service but without the cross-city or the local terminus; the reality is that the NTA needs to quit while it is ahead on this bus. BusConnects is a complex project and it involves changes but passengers know how and why they use the service. The Minister of State, Deputy Lawless, and I visited the Broadstone garage recently and we saw the complexity of it. I ask the Department of Transport to talk to the NTA to have it go back to the drawing board on this. It is not working for local people and it is not going to deliver the efficiency the NTA believes it will.

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Sitting date: 2024-10-17