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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
The 7 finally got new buses the first new ones since the mid 1980's
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That's not correct. The 7 group recieved new buses in 1999, part of the last batch of non-accessible RV type and it kept those buses until about a year ago when they were transferred to other garages.
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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
The route was then publically listed as accessible for several months before but for the week of the Ryder Cup it was back with older buses than before with zero accessibilty, thats not on
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No, it isn't. The real story that was never picked up on was the cutting of regular services and the use of stored buses that despite the best efforts of the maintenance staff had a high failure rate that week.
The accessibility issue was most noticeable on the 7 group as it should not have been announced until after the Ruder cup, they knew that the buses would be pulled from the route during that week.
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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
We caught IE out with the cheeky car park move at Louisa Bridge, it was a clear case of screw the normal punter and grab the cash. Now if this was private sector it would be understandable but its not its heavily subsidised state owned transport
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They should not be doing that but with the penny pinching from the DoT it is unsurprising that both companies jumped at the chance to make a profit from the RC.