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Originally Posted by berneyarms
Buses were going around carrying thin air.
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My view is that many bus services could have been and can be made more useful if they are integrated better with other bus/rail services and in some instances retimed. For instance, there are several PSO routes operating M-F or M-S where first journeys don't reach major towns pre-09.00 and last journeys leave too early hence commuters can't avail of them. In other places well established links between towns within counties were broken with no apparent consultation whatsoever and
were being used. Travel between Duleek and Navan comes to mind; in short a journey that took just over half an hour on a direct bus now involves two buses and the duration is doubled.
Progress has certainly been made from some years ago but there's still a lot of scope across the country for many improvements in integration, bus to rail and bus to bus.