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Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications and Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan

This morning.

Eamon Ryan has he is not convinced that waiving fares is a “silver bullet” environmental solution due to the level of funding public transport required.

Via The Times:

In response to a parliamentary question from Bríd Smith, the People-Before-Profit TD, who said that Covid-19 provided insight into the funding required in the absence of fare revenue.

An additional €370 million was needed to continue public transport operations in 2020 as Covid caused a collapse in revenue.

…He said schemes that introduced free public transport can also have “unintended consequences” including a significant reduction in walking and cycling.

Smith, a member of the Oireachtas committee on climate action, said free public transport was a “huge advantage” and “improves quality of life significantly”. She told The Times: “This idea that it is not beneficial because it will reduce active travel, I think it is just because the minister wants to put his funding towards cycle path and greenway

Free public travel not big enough carrot for commuters, says Eamon Ryan (The Times)

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14 thoughts on “More Carrots

  1. Zaccone

    The additional government revenue from the carbon tax increases should be put towards reducing and then removing public transport fares.

    Free public transport would encourage people out of cars, and would put a big chunk of cash back into the pockets of working class people who commute to work. 5eur+ a day saved adds up.

    1. Col

      I can’t find a link to back this up, but apparently free public transport didn’t encourage people out of cars in Tallinn.
      If they do want this result, they would need to massively increase the number of buses & luases anyway. I live on a busy bus route but would regularly be waiting 20 – 30 mins as dozens of full buses passed the stop by. That was pre-pandemic.

  2. scottser

    this should be a caption competition. it’s either darth sidious ‘POWER! UNLIMITED POWER!!’ or tommy cooper: ‘I sleep like a baby. Every morning I wake up screaming around 2 o’clock..hur hur hur..’

    1. eamonn

      i reckon elvis suspicious minds,i have to imagine the legwork – but it works for me.
      i see tommy cooper too

  3. Ian - oG

    I’d be happy just to have a functioning bus service and have no issue with whatever the fare is.

    At the moment my only option is a 15 minute walk with potentially another 30 minutes plus wait. That’s just to get on a bus and it it’s fully, another 20-30 minutes.

    But on the other end of the route is Eamonn Ryan’s constituency and guess what? They are all delighted with the changes. So he has no intention of sorting it out.

    Useless, retarded waste of oxygen.

    Also, everyone know he lied about his covid infection status just so he could go fap at the Glasgow climate conference.

  4. bell

    free public transport can also have “unintended consequences” including a significant reduction in walking and cycling.

    Eamonn Ryan really does live in another world, on another Planet, in another Universe

  5. Cian

    What is wrong with investing money in cycle paths and greenways? These are one-off costs and the infrastructure will be there for years;
    If you invest in free transport this year, you have to invest again and again. If the money runs out you have nothing to show for it.

  6. Mary Brennan

    How many of them walk in the rain none I bet .love to know how many ever went to the post office to pay a bill do they even know how the other half live .

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