[Article]Labour promises cheaper bus fares

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Originally Posted by Nigel Fitzgricer

This is were this obsession with buses comes from. People who do not use public transport at all, have no idea that a bus is the least attractive means of getting to and from work from a passenger point of view.

That's a bit short sighted. Buses are the only immediate solution to Dublin's traffic problem. Neither Metro North nor West will be in service inside of five years. KRP will make no difference to people living in Dublin. The new Luas extensions have limited coverage. More buses, better bus corridors and priority junctions would improve things no-end and in a much shorter timeframe.

You're right, buses are the worst way to commute to work but I'd rather a good bus service in six months than the vague promise of a metro in five or six years time. Even when it does arrive, we'll still need buses. If MN was built right now, I'd be faster getting the bus to work than a bus -> metro -> dart combination.

In the long-term we should be aiming at trains being the primary mode of transport in Dublin but that's a very long time and several general elections away.

I was thinking that if MetroWest was intergrated properly with the Maynooth, Kildare lines and also extended to meet the DART at Donebate, and if the Kildare Services were routed over the PPT and into the Docklands and Connolly you would problably get away without the Interconenctor.

You could get away with it if you ignore the benefits the Interconnector brings to the city centre. Trains are about more than bringing people from Kildare into Dublin.