Transport Trade Unions

Cork

Very Interesting article in this mornings examiner that the cost of going to & from Dublin is €33 approx.

Similar journeys to Dublin (similar distance)from Waterford & Galway cost roughly half.

Reason: Bus Eireann has competion on the Waterford & Galway Routes.

Transport Trade Unions need to accept there that competition is coming.

We've signed up for it - in EU treatys.

It will benefit this economy & Irish consumers.

Sparks

Was there a point in there?

gurramok

Competition on certain transport routes has benefited the consumer.
Maintaining the monopoly of trasport routes increases prices (Dublin Bus for example)
Transport unions need to get a grip on themselves, they are like Eircon on the phone lines

DadaKopf

Originally posted by Cork
Very Interesting article in this mornings examiner that the cost of going to & from Dublin is €33 approx.

From where? Do you mean for us to look at your name for that answer?

We've signed up for it [meaning privatisation] - in EU treatys.

It will benefit this economy & Irish consumers.

Yes, we have. Doesn't mean it's necessarily a good thing.

Why exactly do you think privatisation will benefit us? It hasn't had a very good track record in the transport sector in other countries, has it?

Bluehair

Originally posted by DadaKopf
From where? Do you mean for us to look at your name for that answer?

The Examiner is a Cork paper. It was a given that was the origin though he didn't point that out.

Originally posted by DadaKopf
Why exactly do you think privatisation will benefit us? It hasn't had a very good track record in the transport sector in other countries, has it?

Privitisation was your suggestion not Corks. Airfares(for example) have plummeted over the years due to EU/government enforced competition (meaning opening up of routes and destruction of protected monopolies not privatisation).

Monopolies can be broken up and competition introduced without priviatisation but each sector needs to be looked at on it's own merits rather than a blanket policy (ie Corks example of competition needed for the Cork-Dublin route). The breakup of Aer Rianta is another (overdue) example along with another (privately owned) terminal at Dublin. Aer Lingus however is a prime example of a sector that should be privatised and the sooner the better.

Cork

It was a comparrisson of bus fares from Cork to Dublin (where there is no competition) with bus fairs from Waterford & Galway to Dublin where competition exists.

The distances in question were similar.

Let the government open up bus routes that will provide intergrated transport.

Look at the fares Aer Lingus were charging prior to Ryanair?

Aer Lingus got away with it for years.