As an anti-immigrant encampment dwindles on Basin View, its organisers try to rally
One man who’s been involved has been trying to organise a social event on a nearby council football pitch, something the council says it’s “monitoring”.
Last year, the council left €500,000 in National Transport Authority funding for bus stop improvements on the table.
Operated by Go Ahead, it connects the peninsula to Swords.
Limited, infrequent service to and from this rural Fingal village stifles their school, work, and socialising opportunities, they say.
"Being my number one source of transportation, I have experienced ghost buses numerous times."
And more complete figures highlight another major cause of skipped bus stops.
The National Transport Authority plans to axe the 13, 68 and 69 late this year. Protesters say the planned replacements aren’t good enough.
At issue: controllers’ efforts to make drivers running ahead of schedule slow down, or wait for a bit at a stop.
We’ve built a No-Show Bus Tracker to help document the scale and details of the problems of ghost buses and cancelled buses.
The National Transport Authority has awarded a contract to a UK-based company to roll out the new system – in 2025–2026, all going well.
The company says it’s working hard to recruit new drivers. But two drivers and a union rep say the problem isn’t hiring them, it’s keeping them.
The new routes, part of BusConnects, aren’t yet along separated bus lanes, and traffic is making buses less dependable and slower.
If the service doesn’t improve, people might start driving more, making climate-emissions targets even harder to reach, transport experts say.