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Permeability in Existing Urban Areas: Best Practice Guide
The National Transport Authority has today (July 28) published a best practice guide on providing for permeability in existing urban areas, and has circulated it to 140 planners and engineers in local and regional authorities nationwide. Promoting walking and cycling as modes of transport is a key objective of the National Transport Authority, particularly for...
Compliance activities in June 2015
Compliance officers recorded 830 formal checks of small public service vehicles during the month and, as a result of their work, detected eleven individuals operating without valid SPSV licences; five in Dublin, three in Wexford, two in Cork and one in Kerry. A total of 55 Fixed Payment Notices were issued to licence holders during...
New network of bus services in Kerry
User-friendly clock-face timetables and more frequent services connecting local county towns (incl Ballybunion, Lixnaw, Abbeydorney and Castleisland) with Tralee form part of a revised bus network for County Kerry, devised and implemented by the National Transport Authority in partnership with Bus Éireann, and supported by Kerry LocalLink. The new network commenced operations in late April....
Free travel on Child Leap Cards July 6-19
All Child Leap Card holders (aged between the ages of 4 and 18) can travel free for a fortnight from next Monday (July 6), announced Transport Minister Paschal Donohoe TD today, with Anne Graham, CEO of the National Transport Authority. The free travel will automatically apply when using a child Leap Card on the following...
Replacement bus services following changes to Expressway Route 7 – Operational from Sunday 28 June 2015
The National Transport Authority, in conjunction with Bus Éireann, Carlow-Kilkenny Locallink and Cork Locallink, has put in place a number of bus services following changes to Bus Éireann Expressway Route 7, which no longer will provide services to a number of locations including Cork, Fermoy, Mitchelstown, Carrick-on-Suir, Castlecomer and Athy from Sunday next (June 28)....
Traffic changes – closure of Fassaugh Road (Liam Whelan) Bridge, Cabra (3-16 July)
The Fassaugh Road (Liam Whelan) Bridge will be replaced as part of the Luas Cross City Main Infrastructure Contract. Fassaugh Road will therefore be closed to vehicular traffic between the junctions of Fassaugh Road / Connaught Street / Shandon Crescent and Fassaugh Road /Fassaugh Avenue / St. Attracta’s Road / Dowth Avenue, from July 3rd...
Compliance activities in May 2015
Compliance officers recorded 1,114 formal checks of small public service vehicles during the month and, as a result of their work, detected twelve individuals operating without valid SPSV licences; five in Donegal, two each in Clare and Kildare, one each in Dublin, Cork and Limerick. 26 Fixed Payment Notices were issued to licence holders during...
New, improved Real Time Ireland App covers all CIE and Luas services
Transport for Ireland’s Real Time Passenger Information is the only app giving users real-time departure information for Dublin Bus AND Bus Éireann AND DART AND Iarnród Éireann AND Luas services. The app has been downloaded over 108,000 times to date, and is used over 1.25 million times each month. A new, improved version of the...
Tipperary Transport Coordination Unit – latest opening in national network of local offices
Local transport services integrating with national network, for benefit of remote rural dwellers Chief Executive Anne Graham joined Alan Kelly TD, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government on Friday (June 12) to launch the Transport Coordination Unit in Littleton, Co Tipperary. The Tipperary TCU is one of 18 Units being set-up across Ireland...