Bus Éireann calls for more quality bus corridors

Bus Éireann says it wants its drivers to have access to hard shoulders on motorways and dual carriageways, for use as quality bus corridors.

The company says that existing bus corridors have encouraged more passengers onto their services over the last five years, which bucks the trend of falling passenger numbers in other countries.

Spokesperson Cyril McIntyre says the Government should act to combat the country's chronic gridlock problems.

"The quality bus corridors in the greater Dublin area have been a help to us, obviously we would like to see them extended outside the city area onto the hard shoulders of the motorways and dual carriageways to provide an even better service for our customers.

"We are continuing to press the case through the Department of Transport with the local authorities and the National Roads Authority and we hope that the sort of increased business that we're reporting will encourage the powers that be to make a favourable decision."