Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Local Link and Rural Transport Programme: National Transport Authority

Ms Margaret Malone:

The next analysis will happen in March, with a view towards having a new report by the end of March. Anecdotally, we are hearing the same things that have been expressed here today. The evening services are working extremely well in some cases but in other cases patronage is low. To be fair to the process, getting any public transport service off the ground, building trust in it and finding passenger confidence in it can take a period of time. We are expecting to see an increase in usage on many of those pilot routes between December and March of this year. As soon as those results are in we will make them available to everyone, which will dictate where we go with the evening services, subject to funding.

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