Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 December 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

National Transport Authority: Chairperson Designate

Mr. Peter Strachan:

Again, just this morning, I was on a green line tram and there was both a powered wheelchair customer and a lady with a buggy and relatively young children in the same area of the Luas vehicle. We have got reasonably level access. What it comes back to is the level of crowding. If those customers had been there two stops on, and attempted to get on at St. Stephen's Green, they probably could not have done so, even though people were getting off at that stop. The basic infrastructure is there as regards level access, or low floor access, across the whole of the Citadis vehicle, which is good. It is not one of these step-up things, but it is about the level of crowding and the space available, especially in those vestibule end areas of the tram vehicle. Asking our delivery colleagues in Transdev what they can do about that as regards policing and patrolling might be the way to go, rather than reserving space. We have got the accessibility capability. We just need to use the space effectively.

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