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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...

SPSV Industry Update Issue 29

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Major changes proposed in Dublin City Transport Study – Quays, College Green, Suffolk Street – Public Consultation June 11- July 16

The National Transport Authority and Dublin City Council today (June 10, 2015) published their joint “Dublin City Centre Transport Study” – a set of proposals to enhance overall movement in the city and achieve the objectives set out in the current Dublin City Development Plan – “ … modal share targets crossing the canals of...

Compliance activities in April 2015

In April, Compliance Officers detected six individuals operating without valid SPSV licences; two in Cork and one each in Offaly, Clare, Wexford and Roscommon. Compliance officers recorded 1065 formal checks of small public service vehicles during the month. In April, 33 Fixed Payment Notices were issued, with the majority of these for drivers who were...