[27+29/5/2016] Services before and after Bruce Springsteen concert

[berneyarms]

Originally Posted by James Howard

I'd agree that it is risky for Irish Rail to be looking at night services, but it is quite frankly ludicrous that the last train past Maynooth leaves Connolly at 1905. You can't even get to Kilcock after that.

If you went the intermodal route - i.e. make Irish Rail return tickets and passes acceptable on Bus Éireann, there would be hard data as to how much demand there was for later services. This would cost nothing to implement aside from the odd forgone bus fare from taxsaver ticket holders.

This would probably result in sufficient demand to justify more bus services which could even lead to a point where there were enough people on buses to justify a later train.

That's something for the NTA to decide - have you contacted them about it?

They dictate service levels now.

[Inniskeen]

The communication of special services for the Bruce Springsten event has been a bit of a disaster. TFI(NTA) were either misadvised or screwed up or both. Irish Rail loaded up the journey planner three or four days ago on the apparent assumption that there is a captive market waiting for white smoke from the timetable department or alternately Irish Rail think that everybody including customers decide their plans at the last minute.

And surprise surprise the no demand mantra will be trotted out at the merest suggestion of additional services and we have the figures to prove that nobody used the services we didn't tell them about !

As for TFI anybody for today's imaginary 1435 from Dundalk lads ?

[Jamie2k9]

The communication of special services for the Bruce Springsten event has been a bit of a disaster. TFI(NTA) were either misadvised or screwed up or both. Irish Rail loaded up the journey planner three or four days ago on the apparent assumption that there is a captive market waiting for white smoke from the timetable department or alternately Irish Rail think that everybody including customers decide their plans at the last minute.

And surprise surprise the no demand mantra will be trotted out at the merest suggestion of additional services and we have the figures to prove that nobody used the services we didn't tell them about !

As for TFI anybody for today's imaginary 1435 from Dundalk lads ?

Totally agree, really poor compared to what they do normally for such big events. Somebody dropped the ball. They did however tweet last services tonight earlier.

[James Howard]

Originally Posted by berneyarms

That's something for the NTA to decide - have you contacted them about it?

They dictate service levels now.

I have suggested this to the NTA but they'll probably need to set up a six month study and consultation process to examine the possibility. I know that a while ago, they were looking at a 200 euro add-on to the Mullingar taxsaver fare as a pilot but it was never advertised and I don't think it applied to all buses. So I assume that they quietly dropped this due to "lack of demand".