Every town in Ireland with a population over 10,000 will be receiving its own town bus service from the NTA. Beginning with Carlow in Q3 2022

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1. Until they close them all during the next recession

2. BOOOO

3. Town bus service to where?

   You wouldn’t be long doing a loop around my town.

4. So if I have 10000 kids I get a free bus?

5. Where the fuck is the bus going to go around Carlow? It’s a fairly compact town

6. All of the below.
   https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_urban_areas_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland_by_population

7. Your Ma is the town bus.

8. This sounds like an election promise. What is a Dublin Commuter Coalition? Is it FG in fancy hat? They have a tweet praising the RSA so I’m going to assume they are some sort of corrupt fake opposition for manufacturing consent or something bullshitty like that.

9. God. People give out about rural public transport, they propose this, and you are giving out about it.

   While I do think it’s very much needed, it will be very difficult to do because of how absolutely terribly laid out our towns are. Davos, population 10,000, has two train stations which link it to the other major towns in the area, two regional bus routes and six intraurban ones. It would be great if we could do the same, but how many Irish towns look like [this](https://www.google.com/search?q=davos+map+town&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwjRgp21lOb0AhXBlFwKHXrvAr0Q2-cCegQIABAC&oq=davos+map+town&gs_lcp=ChJtb2JpbGUtZ3dzLXdpei1pbWcQAzoFCAAQgAQ6BggAEAgQHjoECAAQHlCzBFjUEWC5FGgBcAB4AIABeogB1gOSAQM2LjGYAQCgAQHAAQE&sclient=mobile-gws-wiz-img&ei=8w66YZG9L8Gp8gL63ovoCw&bih=653&biw=1024&prmd=nmixv&hl=en-GB#imgrc=j7j3exoGpEvHjM)?

10. This is an absolutely brilliant idea, fair play to them. Public transport is the major factor that really lets Ireland down compared our neighbours.

    Able-bodied people often don’t realise how difficult it is to get from one end of even a small town to another, or from an out of town estate to a shopping centre, without a car, or how difficult it is to get two kids and five bags of shopping home.

    You’d wonder how it’s possible to begrudge such a scheme but I’m sure we’ll find out in this thread over the next few hours!

11. More reliable and frequent rural commuter bus services are needed much more in my opinion

12. Carlow is the 8th biggest town in ireland

13. Well, it will certainly make it easier to follow someone up to there.

14. According to the 2016 census Longford has 10,008 people. Let’s hope there’s no recount

15. What type of bus will run to these areas,

    Just interested to see what models they would use.

16. I’d rather they spent the budget on connecting small rural towns to these larger towns first but I suppose something is better than nothing.

17. Way Carlow that’s my county get in

18. Lads, there’s only 20 towns (cities included)with a population of over 10,000 out of a bazillion other towns

19. Amy chance of a few houses instead?