More competition for the railways on a key corridor:

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Originally Posted by Thomas Ralph

I remember it being an issue when I was trying to emigrate last December in the height of the snow, when Aircoach kept running but Dublin Bus gave up the ghost. There were passengers in Donnybrook pleading to be let on to go to the city centre and willing to pay the full €8 fare, and the driver steadfastly refused to take them.

Not all drivers were so strict about the rules One of them let me and several others on an Aircoach from O'Connell St. to Sandyford when the Luas was OOO during the snow. He even refused to take money from us because the ticket machine can't issue southbound tickets from anywhere other than the airport.