Is foot passenger traffic that much?
I just travelled Calais Dover and back again as one. Only one of the ferry companys now accepts foot passengers and not on all the ferrys. The Boat I returned on had only 33 foot passengers despite being the first boat for over 2 hours that took them whereas there where over 200 cars, some buses and trucks and other boats had taking vehicles had crossed during that time.
This was a Friday evening (in August) and I imagine cross channel traffic is a lot heavier then Rosslare.
Does anyone know the average per sailing?
Interestingly while Dover seems to be well served with trains generally clockface timetabled the Calais timetable looks like something IE cobbled together.
The train stations in both ports are nowhere near the ferry terminals, instead both have a patchy bus service between them.
The Folkstone-Calais shuttles dont take foot passengers and a walk up train fare off-peak between Lille and Ashford is E200, so the channel tunnel is not stripping passengers away either.
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