Do you really believe that the car lobby is calling for free public transport to reduce car usage? They’re doing it knowing that it won’t reduce car usage. – @DublinCommuters
Do you really believe that the car lobby is calling for free public transport to reduce car usage? They're doing it knowing that it won't reduce car usage. https://t.co/XhLfgDwjFJ pic.twitter.com/G1m6fN5ee4
— Dublin Commuter Coalition (@DublinCommuters) March 6, 2023
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Why wouldn’t it? At least they could get real data on where public transport can be used, instead of just charging everyone more to drive when some people literally can’t get public transport. I doubt car usage would drop in rural Ireland but it probably would drop in Dublin.
Would you do much reading now? That clearly says don’t use a stick, use a carrot instead.
Dublin commuters don’t actually care about commuters.
They care about cyclists and public transport users.
They take joy in the chaos that projects have caused for commuters using their cars.
Free public transport would be a great initiative
Heard a representative from @DublinCommuters on newstalk earlier, he said Eamonn Ryan’s “free public transport will result in increased unnecessary trips” comment, was offensive. Fucking clown.
I spend about four hours a day on public transport and I don’t want it to be free. The 60 quid a week would be very welcome, but the waiting around for an hour in the evening because the bus is full with day trippers won’t be nice at all.
It’s alright for Dublin Bus, dart and Luas services to be free as there’s one every few minutes during rush hour. Not for those commuting in from the country though.
They could however introduce a monthly ticket, reduce the cost of ten journey and return tickets though.
My weekly ticket is 60 quid so it’s already much cheaper than driving in..
It’s all a conspiracy from Big AUTOMOBILE.
If it was frequent, reliable and went where I want to go, I’d use it for €2.
But it doesn’t. It takes 11 minutes to drive or 55 minutes by bus to get to work.
And before it gets trotted out, yes Bus Connects has launched in my area
Eamon Ryans comments about unnecessary journeys was one of the most tone deaf and moronic statements that I have heard from from an Irish politician, right up there with Flynn on the Late Late Show and Leo’s “One man’s rent is another man’s income”.
I do agree that if we want to take cars out of built up areas then we need better public transport. Why must we have the stick instead of the carrot in this country?
I agree, they do absolutely nothing to make public transport commute hassle free for people to lean towards buses, trains or Luas but at the same time they want to penalise people for using their cars.
From my place to Tallaght takes more an hour- 2 connections, but in car it’s less than 20 minutes. That’s just one example. The routes are incredibly inefficient. I’d have to go somewhere that’s about 6-7km and I’d have to take 2 buses with long waiting times and sometimes takes over an hour to get there.
We don’t have 24 public transport. We are missing lots of early morning transport especially on weekends. I know Eamon Ryan sleeps on Saturdays and Sundays but some of us have to work early in the morning.
Unreliable bus service – frequent cancellation with no notice and delays.
Poor security on Luas.
Bike lanes are non existent in lots of places and are very poorly planned and implemented in so many areas.
They do absolutely nothing to fix this but want to impose penalties on people who wants to drive to work?
Either be like the US, do fuck all for public transport infrastructure BUT reduce fuel cost and tax on cars, and incentivise driving cars (not that I want this). OR be like rest of the EU where excellent public transport infrastructure exists (bike lanes, metros, trams, growing train network that connects everyone to everywhere). Ireland seems to pick the worst of both worlds.
The government uses tax money and EU funding to build, buy and operate public transport but instead of operating as a service it is a for profit machine. Public transport must be a service for its people as it is paid for by the people. It’s should be a value I get in return for paying tax.
There’s a car lobby?
Ah yes the massive Irish auto manufacturers industry
Why not make it free on Fri/Sat/Sun and trail it?
They done the 2 for 1 recently and that was pretty okay, the buses where not packed at all.
Also it could potentially speed up onboarding/off boarding as no need for scanning/paying it would be just walk on/off.
But TBH where I pay 2€ I do think its fairly reasonable price.