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Originally Posted by briank
Where are you getting 28 from?
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28 would be coach B I'd say.
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Originally Posted by briank
Crunching the numbers further.
According to the Aecom report, Irish Rail carry 2,434,000 passengers on the Cork route.
So that works out at 6,668 passengers per day.
GoBe/Aircoach (excluding BE) have a regular scheduled [1] capacity of 3,250 passengers per day.
That means Irish Rail now face new competition that has the capacity to steal almost 50% of Irish Rails passengers on this route. This is capacity that simply didn't exist this time last year.
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Are you not comparing IÉ's total passengers carried with the coach companies' capacity? Apples and oranges, given that a seat on a coach at half twelve is not an adequate substitute for a seat on the train at quarter past six.
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Originally Posted by briank
[1] Again regular capacity, nothing stopping them using extra buses or increasing capacity significantly by using double deckers.
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Plenty stopping them using extra buses (licence as Marko mentions above) and double deckers (80kph speed limit instead of 100kph adding 25% to journey time).