Irish Examiner view: Waiting for progress on public transport

The essential requirement of public transport is reliability, surely

We learned from Tadgh McNally and Sean Murray the sheer scale of bus-users’ unhappiness. They reported that almost 6,000 complaints have been submitted to the NTA about delayed, cancelled, or the notorious “ghost” buses in the first five months of this year alone. Picture: Dan Linehan

The travails of public transport, and the challenges facing its adherents, were plain to see in two stories covered here this week.

First, the news reported by Sean Murray about the MetroLink, the long-awaited rail project which is to link Dublin City centre with Dublin Airport. It has finally been given the thumbs-up by An Coimisiún Pleanála, which published the railway order yesterday morning.