Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 233: To ask the Minister for Transport the number of quality bus corridors in operation in each of the years since 2001 and at the most recent date for which data is available; the total kilometre length of quality bus corridors in respect of these dates; and the number of buses and the bus seating capacity allocated to serving quality bus corridors. [14693/05]

Martin Cullen (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Nine quality bus corridors, QBCs, covering a total length of some 101 km have been in operation in the Dublin area since 2001 at Malahide, Lucan, Stillorgan, Finglas, north Clondalkin, Rathfarnham, Tallaght, Swords and Blanchardstown. Extensions totalling 16 km have been added to three of these in recent years at Lucan, Stillorgan and Rathfarnham. A number of further QBC projects are due to be delivered in the course of 2005, including the orbital QBC and the South Clondalkin QBC.

Dublin Bus operates an extensive network of services involving QBC and non-QBC routes. On some services, buses may use a QBC for part of a journey. In this context, Dublin Bus has informed me that the number of buses serving QBCs currently stands at 426 with a capacity of 38,340.