BUS ÉIREANN HAS said it understands concerns about the curtailing of some of its routes and apologised for any inconvenience caused.
The company is currently making a number of changes to its commercial Expressway routes. It says these routes receive no State funding and are subject to significant competition.
In order for Bus Éireann Expressway services to be commercially viable, we must meet the demand from the vast majority of our customers for shorter journey times with a limited number of stops on our commercial inter-city routes. If Bus Éireann doesn’t make these changes, then the alternative is that these services and their associated jobs are lost.
Changes
Bus Éireann says this means that on several routes they are no longer serving a number of stops that “have low customer support and are therefore commercially unviable”.
It says that maintaining stops that have a low level of use is no longer possible “given the economic situation in the country and liberalisation of the market”.
From October 7, Bus Éireann is making changes to the following Expressway commercial services:
Concerns
Bus Éireann said it:
understands the concerns of the members of the Joint Oireachtas Committee and its Chairman and appreciates that these changes may cause inconvenience for some people, for which we apologise. However, we are not in a position to delay the implementation of these changes for a number of reasons.
It said that delaying the changes “will result in the company incurring additional costs and loss of revenue that will put these routes at further risk”.
Bus Eireann has been invited to meet the Oireachtas Committee on 17 October. The National Transport Authority is currently conducting reviews in relation to public transport in these regions, which Bus Éireann is providing assistance with.
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