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With the first 120 buses expected to enter passenger service in 2023, NTA will gradually procure and deploy the remaining battery-electric buses across Ireland over a period of five years.
Combined with the 20 per cent fare reduction on public transport already in place across the country, public transport costs for young adults will be 60 per cent cheaper until the end of 2022.
This is the final of two sets of fare reductions that have been launched in the country as part of the government’s package to reduce the cost of living, and will take effect from 9 May 2022.
In line with Cork’s sustainability commitments, the investment will facilitate the creation of new sustainable transport corridors and cycling and walking infrastructure, in order to encourage public transport use and active travel.
Implemented as part of the government’s package to reduce the cost of living, this is the first of two sets of fare reductions to be launched in the country, with fare cuts in the Greater Dublin Area to be introduced in May 2022.
The National Transport Authority’s Head of BI & Data Analytics, Brian McCormick, details the challenges that transport operators are facing post-pandemic and amidst recent global events as traditional analytic approaches used by transport planners and policy makers are brought into question.
Following the implementation of the BusConnects programme, Dublin residents will be able to benefit from faster and more efficient bus services, as well as improved cycling and pedestrian facilities.
As part of the first phase of the programme to reduce public transport fares across Ireland, TaxSaver fares on on all subsidised PSO public transport services will be reduced by 20 per cent in April 2022.
Anne Graham, Chief Executive Officer of the National Transport Authority (NTA) in Ireland, discusses how NTA is working with the country’s public transport operators to step up to the climate challenge.
The proposed redesigned bus network will provide a more coherently planned, higher capacity, more understandable network for those within the Cork Metropolitan Area.
The Sustainable Mobility & Air Quality In-Depth Focus in Intelligent Transport Issue 3 2021 features articles discussing e-mobility, hydrogen power, the legal issues of decarbonisation and indoor air quality.
Commuters in Dublin could soon be travelling on hydrogen fuel-cell buses, after the NTA and Bus Éireann announced an investment of more than €2 million to purchase three zero emissions vehicles.
The projects benefitting from the new NTA funding include the Clontarf to City Centre scheme in Dublin and the ambitious Mahon to Marina Greenway in Cork.
A public consultation on the draft Strategy, which includes proposals for cycling, rail, buses and road, has commenced and continues until 16 October.
Larger trams to increase capacity have been introduced onto the Luas Finglas network in Dublin and a public consultation has been launched to gather views on new proposed routes.
