Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Bus Services in Counties Dublin, Kildare, Meath and Wicklow: Discussion

Mr. Billy Hann:

I will come in. I thank the Deputy for his question. I might bring Mr. Quinn in as well. Whether it is Ongar or any other area, when it comes to the question of trying to keep on schedule or skip some stops to get on schedule, those decisions are never made lightly and are basically always made in the context of the bigger picture to try to keep punctuality across the whole network. We would seldom ask a bus driver to pass by stops if those stops were not going to be served by other buses behind that one, or buses coming from another area. Generally, those bus stops will be served by other buses and we are trying to get those buses back on schedule to serve the rest of the customers downstream.

That being said, we are absolutely happy to look at it from a capacity point of view. I do not have the details on the 39A and what the issues on capacity might be, but I am happy to take that offline and look at it. Mr. Quinn might have some more colour on it that I am not too sure about.

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