If Clonmel council want the station to be an open access place for buses *including non-CIE scheduled service* to stop and passengers to wait/use the facilities then the council should request that CIE make a reasonable offer of a lease to the town. Clonmel could be a prototype for a multimodal transport hub which includes non-CIE services, taxis, bikes, local bus and so on and use spaces within the station to generate income by acting as a ticketing agent, small retailer, bike hire etc. etc.
Instead councillors do what they always do - demand that Something Must Be Done and that Dublin Must Be Paying For It.
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