In late May, as the true impact of the pandemic was crystallising, I had an insightful conversation with Ray Coyne, the chief executive of Dublin Bus. With the travel restrictions fully implemented, Coyne was in the spare room of his home in Porterstown, Castleknock, Dublin 15, but he was highly articulate about the financial and logistical challenges facing the state-owned transport company. Coyne explained to me that passenger revenues at its worst had collapsed 90 per cent after the lockdown and that the two-metre restriction being mooted at the time would reduce bus capacity by 75 per cent. Due to…

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