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. Stephen Kent:
We have lots of vehicles that come in on certain days for scheduled maintenance. That happened and we had the perfect storm in those couple of weeks when we went a bit high. In addition to scheduled maintenance coming in, we had vehicles in breakdowns and they were all going into a garage with less garages. We had certain mornings where we were 20 vehicles short. That is difficult to solve in any circumstances. We tried to spread the vehicles and the way it is typically done is to ration them. On high-frequency routes, to a certain extent you are trying to minimise the waiting time.
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