Yesterday’s Sunday Times (August 25th) had a truly awful piece by Larissa Nolan on Intercity Rail versus bus travel. Awful because the main point of the piece - the uncompetitive slow train times - was totally wrong in many cases. For example Dublin Limerick 3 hours by bus and 3 hours 10 minutes by train; Dublin-Waterford 2 hours 30 minutes by bus and 3 hours 15 minutes by train.
Maybe it takes 3 hours 10 minutes to Limerick via Nenagh or Athenry, or 3 hours 15 minutes to Waterford via Limerick Junction. I daresay the journey planner shows such journeys, but that does not exclude the lazy and sloppy journalism. There were other errors but the two examples above are particularly glaring. I presume that reading the PDF timetables and working out the times involved too much mental effort.
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