Why buses don’t rate in the transport plan

I’D like to tell your columnist Fergus Finlay (Irish Examiner, November 8) why the transport plan doesn’t include buses. They don’t work.

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.

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