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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Travel Operations Update: National Transport Authority (10 Jul 2024)
Gerry Horkan: The purpose of the meeting today is for the joint committee to seek an update on the National Transport Authority's sustainable travel operations. I am very pleased to welcome on behalf of the committee from the National Transport Authority: Ms Anne Graham, chief executive officer; Mr. Hugh Creegan deputy CEO and director of transport, planning and investment; and Mr. Jeremy Ryan, director...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Travel Operations Update: National Transport Authority (10 Jul 2024)
Gerry Horkan: First, I thank Ms Graham and her team very much for being here. It is clear from her opening remarks that participation in public transport is back to pre-Covid levels and is higher than pre-Covid levels. All that success brings its own challenges. Occasionally on Twitter or X, one will see people queuing at bus stops, but their buses are going past them because they are already full. We...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Travel Operations Update: National Transport Authority (10 Jul 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Yes, I did remember the off-peak Luas fares. There was definitely a capacity constraint on the Dundrum line in pre-Covid times. People were actually getting the Luas from Dundrum to Kilmacud so they could cross the track to come back into town, because they could not get on the Luas in Dundrum. I do not think it is that bad now, but it was. This was before the carriages were linked, etc....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Travel Operations Update: National Transport Authority (10 Jul 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Yes. There are times of the week and day when there will be a problem with capacity. Clearly, we want to try to get people to want to use public transport and we want to remove all the barriers to that. If a person is not able to get on a bus, that will be a huge disincentive in their trying to do so the next day.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Travel Operations Update: National Transport Authority (10 Jul 2024)
Gerry Horkan: What is the answer?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Travel Operations Update: National Transport Authority (10 Jul 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Okay, and what are doing on that? What is the NTA doing about that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Travel Operations Update: National Transport Authority (10 Jul 2024)
Gerry Horkan: More capacity basically means that additional buses are being bought.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Travel Operations Update: National Transport Authority (10 Jul 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Will the fleet be larger?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Travel Operations Update: National Transport Authority (10 Jul 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Okay, so there was a level of downtime on the buses and now there will be less downtime.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Travel Operations Update: National Transport Authority (10 Jul 2024)
Gerry Horkan: In terms of recruitment of both engineers to service the buses and drivers, how is that going? There was a big problem there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Travel Operations Update: National Transport Authority (10 Jul 2024)
Gerry Horkan: In terms of the total number of BusConnects, is it 12 routes in total that were being proposed? Where are we in terms of how many have been delivered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Travel Operations Update: National Transport Authority (10 Jul 2024)
Gerry Horkan: There were these corridors or spines. Is it 12 in total?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Travel Operations Update: National Transport Authority (10 Jul 2024)
Gerry Horkan: There are 11 spines?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Travel Operations Update: National Transport Authority (10 Jul 2024)
Gerry Horkan: Of the eight spines that are supposed to be in operation, how many are in operation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Travel Operations Update: National Transport Authority (10 Jul 2024)
Gerry Horkan: In terms of how they are operating and delivering, has Mr. Ryan seen measurable improvements in numbers and delivery times and so on?