Really? You take away the most profitable routes and expect that to have no impact on the company? It must just be that the company is flabby? Really??
Remind me - what profitable routes have been taken away from Bus Eireann? Do you mean the Expressway type intercity routes?
The last annual report I can find (2015) shows that the company made a €5.6million loss then of which Commercial Expressway was €5.3 million of that loss i.e. almost 95% of the loss was from the commercial services. It should be noted that these Commercial Expressway services are not covered by the PSO (i.e. the subsidies) and that the relevant state body regulating the sector, the NTA, as recently as February said that it is confident that they don’t consider this market saturated, that if BE stop these services they’re confident they can find others to replace it. In fact, they gave an example of a BE route from Waterford to Dublin that BE pulled out of because they were loss-making on it that the service level has since improved in a number of the towns.
Looks like an all out strike with Dublin Bus and Irish Rail could be coming.
Doesn’t seem to be much uproar around this strike?
Doesn’t effect Dublin really so no one gives a fuck
Most commuters to Dublin would mainly use private companies anyway so not really affected. Few more cars on the road is about the only impact. Only way it will cause proper disruption is if the trains / darts join them.
If Dublin was affected there’d be daily interviews with affected commuters, how they had to walk an extra 25 mins to get a dart instead of a bus or whatever. It doesn’t really affect Limerick either since the public transport is so appaling in the first place
Apart from a few students moaning on Sunday evening I’ve heard noone really care. Makes you wonder what value Bus Eireann really had in the first place.
Indeed. They should open up the rest to private operators and see can they make a fist of it
No country person would admit to getting a bus to work. The shame would be too much.
The only people who get the bus in Limerick are students and people riding it for free. Which I suppose is the problem really
Not anymore.
Affect
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Dublin trains hit.
Shit just got serious.
Wankers
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Dublin Bus hit too.
Chaos.
CHAOS
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Great to see some solidarity from the organised labour in the transport sector. They appear to have the resolve for a long drawn out affair, will be interesting to watch this unfold. Good luck to all concerned.
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Great stuff from the transport workers. In an era of greed and selfishness this act of solidarity shows that there is still good people around
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Shane Ross is the new William Martin Murphy
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Quell surprise, rnli services unaffected. Scab labour in their dingys, no solidarity with land based transport workers.
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