Fears for Local Link’s survival

The operator of one of the country’s most successful LocalLink transport providers is fearful for its survival, despite expecting to double his business within three years.

LocalLink Waterford expects to carry 85,000 passengers by the year-end, having topped 42,260 passengers in 2015 and increasing by 10,522 last year.

Seventeen rural public transport companies nationally provide door-to-door and scheduled bus services in towns, villages, and rural areas. Each is a separate transport co-ordinating unit (TCU), under the National Transport Authority’s 2012 rural transport.