>Veteran councillor Dan Boyle insisted the Government’s current approach of lowering fares and targeting reductions at certain groups is the right approach until the right infrastructure is in place.
>“Unless we have the infrastructure in place, unless we have the capacity, in terms of hiring enough people to staff our public transport×system, we could be paying people to use the public transport system and it’s not going to improve the overall service,” he said
Fair decision. Don’t want the buses being packed.
I disagree with free public transport. Making things free means people use things when they don’t need them.
Using a silly example, when someone offers you a free pen, how many times do you say to yourself “nah I won’t use this pen” and turn it down? Most people just take it, maybe they throw it away.
Same for the bus, you’ll have some people who go “ah I’ll just get the bus for the 500 yards up the road” when walking it is easy.
It’s why I believe our health system is so busy. People rush to A&E when they don’t have to pay for it. I know people whose kid will get a cough and they’re straight off to doctors. If they had to pay a nominal fee, maybe 10/20 euro they would only go when they really have to.
The greens: we won’t add more bus capacity unless people are using the bus more to make it viable.
Also the greens: we won’t make the bus free because the buses don’t have the capacity.
Cork does need more/better bus service to be fair. All the routes I use usually are considered the better ones and they are still shire
There is no such thing as “free”, there is only “taxpayer funded”.
We are robbed of enough of our income without any noticeable return on it already – and with “free” buses – we’ll pay more, and we’ll get more packed buses.
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>Veteran councillor Dan Boyle insisted the Government’s current approach of lowering fares and targeting reductions at certain groups is the right approach until the right infrastructure is in place.
>“Unless we have the infrastructure in place, unless we have the capacity, in terms of hiring enough people to staff our public transport×system, we could be paying people to use the public transport system and it’s not going to improve the overall service,” he said
Fair decision. Don’t want the buses being packed.
I disagree with free public transport. Making things free means people use things when they don’t need them.
Using a silly example, when someone offers you a free pen, how many times do you say to yourself “nah I won’t use this pen” and turn it down? Most people just take it, maybe they throw it away.
Same for the bus, you’ll have some people who go “ah I’ll just get the bus for the 500 yards up the road” when walking it is easy.
It’s why I believe our health system is so busy. People rush to A&E when they don’t have to pay for it. I know people whose kid will get a cough and they’re straight off to doctors. If they had to pay a nominal fee, maybe 10/20 euro they would only go when they really have to.
The greens: we won’t add more bus capacity unless people are using the bus more to make it viable.
Also the greens: we won’t make the bus free because the buses don’t have the capacity.
Cork does need more/better bus service to be fair. All the routes I use usually are considered the better ones and they are still shire
There is no such thing as “free”, there is only “taxpayer funded”.
We are robbed of enough of our income without any noticeable return on it already – and with “free” buses – we’ll pay more, and we’ll get more packed buses.