DoT's strategy for next 3 years

[philip]

From the DoT strategy document....(shame Spencer Dock seems to have slipped through this!)

We will improve integration...
The more integrated the network, the easier
the flows through it. Integration is about the
integration of infrastructure (i.e. roads, rail,
ports and airports that link together allowing
users to make easier connections for instance
by the provision of park-and-ride facilities), the
integration of time-table and services so as to
minimise dwell times, the integration of fares
and ticketing, the provision of integrated information
so that one call can inform a user about
an entire trip (including information for the
motorist regarding traffic flows) so that people
have the option of moving seamlessly from
mode to mode.

DoT

[comcor]

Let me give them a little starter if they want to integrate all the public transport together. At the moment Cork Airport buses terminate at Parnell Place bus station. This is about a 7-8 minute walk from Kent Station. It would take about 2 minutes to drive it. Extending that bus would be a pretty simple way to start integrating air and rail into each other.

[James Shields]

Originally Posted by comcor

Let me give them a little starter if they want to integrate all the public transport together. At the moment Cork Airport buses terminate at Parnell Place bus station. This is about a 7-8 minute walk from Kent Station. It would take about 2 minutes to drive it. Extending that bus would be a pretty simple way to start integrating air and rail into each other.

There are literally dozens of examples like this around the country, especially in Dublin.

Think of all the bus routes that terminate around the city centre, often in disparate locations. I know people who have to take two busses to work, but it's not the busses they dread, it's the 20 min walk across town because the termini are so far apart.

Luas has been up and running for well over a year, but we still don't have proper integration between the two lines. There ought to be a connecting bus service between the red and green lines, and for that matter between the Green line and other train services.

We ought to have a bus/rail interchange at Drumcondra.

There are dozens of other examples.