Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 4 May 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport
Transport Strategy for the Greater Dublin Region: Discussion
Mr. Ray Coyne:
On the timeline for the target of 150 million customers, we are back to having just shy of 80% of the customers we had pre-Covid, but as we are increasing the service levels significantly under BusConnects, we anticipate reaching the target within the next two years. The travel demands within that, however, will be significantly different from those pre-Covid, in light of hybrid working, so we will have to see how that will play out in the long term. The numbers are increasing but the travel patterns are likely to shift, so that will be a learning exercise over the next year. I hope we can achieve the target within the next two years, although that will be subject to continued funding in public transport. One of the key elements within that is multi-year funding, which allows us to plan many years in advance with security of funding to execute those plans-----
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