Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

BusConnects: Discussion

Ms Anne Graham:

Exactly. With regard to what is proposed for the network, if 24-hour services are implemented along corridors in the next years, they will be retained. We are planning more all-day services with further peak commuter services. Any additional services and running times that are currently operated or that will come into operation in the coming years will continue in the revised network, though the alignment might be different based on the new spines.

The design brief for the original plan was to look at the network afresh and maybe provide a new network based on the resources available rather than increasing the resources. It became clear that, even when we started to look at that, there would still be a requirement for phase 1 of the network, which we consulted on last year, of approximately 10% more resources. This proposal represents a 22% increase on what is currently operated, having improved and increased the services over the last years. It is a significant increase.

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