Ahern signals regulatory system for bus network

PUBLIC bus transport needs “a modern regulatory system” Taoiseach Bertie Ahern said yesterday.

He was responding to questions about the row between Fianna Fáil and the PDs over bus routes.

A strike by the National Bus and Rail Union was averted this week only after Transport Minister Martin Cullen promised that he would provide funds for 100 new buses for Dublin Bus and 160 for Bus Éireann.