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Originally Posted by Traincustomer
It's the ethos of doing everything possible I was highlighting. It's the lazy not try one's best attitude of numerous institutions in this country that is partly responsible for so much unemployment and lost tourism.
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Right, but let's look at one of your suggestions in particular:
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Look at all Bus Éireann and rural community buses that serve the towns that the train serves. Can any of them additionally act as feeders by serving a station?
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The answer appears to be a big fat NO. BE reacted to the Galway-Limerick service by inventing the 51X. They reacted to being handed the South Wexford line by routing services to the Quay and not to the railway station in Waterford. They are partnering with Gobus to hammer the Dublin-Galway rail service.
Of course the logical answer is that BE run a service from Colbert to Portlaoise with IE taking the passengers the rest of the way but that's not how it works with "the sister company". Instead, BE are likely to throw a few more buses on just to ensure that you'd have to be soft in your head to consider the rail over them.