[Colm Moore]

Tell me if I have this right:

Luas Replacement Bus Service

The proposals will have a disproportionate impact on mobility-impaired and non-local passengers, who will need to walk longer distances and change multiple times. Notwithstanding any information campaigns, needing to do multiple changes creates legibility, information and physical disconnects.

There is a lack of direct replacement bus services to Busáras (international, long distance and regional coach services), Amiens Street (all Dublin Bus services to the Fairview corridor and ferry port), Connolly Station (in particular northbound InterCity, commuter and DART services) and 3 Arena (East Wall Road has stops, especially for airport and coach services).

Lack of stops at Customs House impairs connections to Tara Street Station (in particular southbound InterCity, commuter and DART services).

Bachelors Walk - may be difficult to operate a terminus within a busy bus lane, even if parking is removed.

Eden Quay - eastbound and westbound both suffer from bus operators (primarily Dublin Bus, but also Swords Express and others) parking out-of-service buses in bus stops.

Crampton Quay - can this area handle surges of extra pedestrians? It may be useful to create a second stop - one stop for Luas to set-down and the existing stop for Bus Éireann to pick-up.

In particular, the junction of Rosie Hackett Bridge and Burgh Quay suffers from traffic abusing the yellow box junction.

Are there additional bus priority measures than can be put in place?

Can the current track spaces be used as part of the replacement bus service? This may require vehicle detection loops at junctions being altered or new ones being installed

Would it be possible to merge this the proposed bus service with a modified Dublin Bus route 90 service?

What ticketing and on-site information arrangements are being put in place?

Many passengers have paid for a seamless Luas service, which will now either be unusable (waiting perhaps 5 minutes for a 5 minute journey is unacceptable). How are these passengers to be compensated?

If a large number of stops are to be out of use, what maintenance / improvement works are to be carried out during the closure?