Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion

Photo of Gerry HorkanGerry Horkan (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not wish to interrupt but I want to address the real time passenger information, RTPI, system. I can go on an app or a website and look at flight radar. It shows me where every aeroplane in the world is at a given time. This is the real frustration. Why do I have a situation where the Dublin Bus app is saying one thing, the TFI app is saying something else and the screen at the bus stop is saying something else? How is it the case that people can be pulling from different sets of information? Is it not all coming from one set of information or are they all doing different sets of guesswork? Either the bus is four minutes away or it is not. I experienced this myself one day. The bus was not coming. It disappeared. It then said it was coming in 16 minutes. It was lashing rain. I looked down, I looked back up and it had flown past me, long before it was due to come. If the system is terrible, it is terrible. However, I do not know how they can all be advertising different sets of figures. How does that happen?

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