Cuts to Cork City's bus service 'could be reversed', says Ryan

In a briefing with city councillors on Monday, the transport minister said there has been a good response to Bus Éireann’s driver recruitment campaign

The chair of the council’s transport and mobility strategic policy committee, Labour councillor Peter Horgan, said Cork bus commuters must be the priority.

Major cuts to Cork City’s bus service could be reversed within 12 to 15 weeks, the transport minister said on Monday as the reduced timetable on five of its busiest routes kicked in.

Bus Éireann has blamed a shortage of bus drivers, combined with gridlock and lack of enforcement of bus lanes, for its decision to cut up to 800 services a week from Monday from its high-frequency 202, 202A, 205, 208 and the 24-hour 220 routes.