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Full coverage: Public transport

Abolishing fares was never an option, but the free public transport study backs up alternatives

Free bus and rail tickets are not on the table. Their discussion has helped pave the way for investment in better services and restrictions on car usage, however.

Thomas Hubert
15th Mar, 2023 - 5 min read

Buses in the cloud: How a pair of Longford schoolfriends grew to modernise New York’s public transport

Six years on from founding CitySwift, Brian O’Rourke and Alan Farrelly explain how they developed AI to optimise bus fleets, sold it to the UK’s major operators and are now going international – having raised funds from A-list investors including Ryanair’s founding family along the way.

Thomas Hubert
31st Jan, 2022 - 8 min read

A bailout beckons: How Covid-19 has smashed Ireland’s army of transport semi-states

Covid-19 has smashed transport companies, and social distancing will make many of them non-viable. Governments have rushed to the aid of a small number of favoured companies. Could the end result be a re-nationalisation of the transport industry?

Sean Keyes
30th Jun, 2020 - 8 min read

The economy might be on lockdown, but 40 potential bidders are lining up for Dublin’s MetroLink

Despite the uncertainty surrounding the future of the state’s finances, tendering to build and run the capital’s first underground rail system is ramping up.

Thomas Hubert
16th Apr, 2020 - 4 min read
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