A Kilkenny based senator is expressing concern over the withdrawal of bus route servicing parts of Carlow and Kilkenny to Dublin.
Bus Eireann has announced that it’s pulling it Expressway route from Waterford to Dublin which includes 8 stops in the two counties with 12 services each day.
They’re also ending the Rosslare/Wexford to Waterford bus and the Ballina to Galway bus due to ‘significant’ financial losses.
They’ll stop running on May 24th after the company told the National Transport Authority yesterday.
Green Party senator Malcolm Noonan is hitting out at the decision, describing it as “a huge blow.”
The Carlow Kilkenny Senator says it’s a very worrying development:
“I think particularly at a time now when people are experiencing such challenges around fuel costs in the depths of an energy crisis, I think it really is unfortunate. Certainly the loss of the Waterford Dublin-Dublin Airport, Route 4, from Expressway and the Rosslare to Wexford to Waterford, Route 40, are a huge blow to the region here in the southeast.
He says students, in particular, will be hit:
“These were vital services that were servicing third-level facilities in the region and I think from the point of view of students being disenfranchised, it’s hugely regretful, particularly where costs are rising, we’re going to college, and I think transport is one of them.
But the fact that these services will be pulled now will mean that students will have to find other means of getting to college.”
