Hundreds left on side of roads daily amid pressure on bus system

Stephen Kent, CEO, Bus Eireann speaking at the National Bus & Rail Union conference at the Maryborough Hotel, Douglas, Cork. Picture Dan Linehan

Hundreds of people are being left on the side of the road every day across the country amid an increasingly stretched bus system, a bus union and driver has said.

As students and young people continue to be priced out of urban centres devoid of housing supply, public transport is under increasing pressure to accommodate commuting from rural and suburban areas.