Why buses don’t rate in the transport plan
On Monday evening recently, with a bit more rain than usual, the No 92 from Wilton Terrace to Heuston Station in Dublin stopped running.
I stood with a wheelchair-bound work colleague for 45 minutes in the rain and wind for a bus that is supposed to operate every 20 minutes. As the time passed by, with the rain soaking through my jacket (because there is no bus shelter), and then through my shirt to my skin, the possibility of making my first train from Heuston passed, and then the second.
At this stage, I gave up and rang a relative to pick me up. He had to drive back into the city (thereby adding to traffic) and make his way back out again because buses do not work or, specifically, Dublin Bus does not work.
Give us rail-based public transport, or forget it.
Ewan Duffy
175 Woodview
Castletown
Celbridge
Co Kildare
