Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

Challenges Facing the Bus and Coach Industry: Discussion

Mr. Allen Parker:

It was a very poor performing service. There was a massive timetable review. There is more reliability built into the timetable. There is more running time, unfortunately, because of the congestion, but that has improved the service. It is running 65% to 70% punctual. It is just about hitting our punctuality targets. There is more work ongoing on how bus priority might be put in place coming in, using hard shoulders. That is something we would fully support as it will help. As Mr. Kent outlined earlier, the more priority we can get, the more reliable and consistent running times we can achieve. As I said, there is more to do to make it better but there are definitely significant improvements today.

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