Cork City Buses

Dbu

Often wondered why our bus fleet in Cork is comprised of falling apart old buses, some over 10 years old.

I stay in Dublin, Limerick and Galway regularly and they have fancy new buses for years now..the yellow and green low emmission ones.

Our ones are comprised of the red ones, that are manky for the most part, some even with L and G number plates, so Im guessing we get the hand me downs.

Ironically when there was a government announcement about bus connect last November, a shiny new double decker was brought from Limerick for the photo op with Eamon Ryan..

When are we getting some nice new buses..

Pen Rua

The NTA only got 100 in Winter 2020: https://www.transportforireland.ie/news/nta-launches-hybrid-buses-for-dublin-and-galway-city-services

Quitelife

Bit like the general deterioration of cork city centre with crime etc the transport body probably know none of the cork politicians will do anything so old buses will do cork grand .

when a few of the limerick ones starting aging a bit we’ll send them on to ye , might put a few hurlers in them too to get Cork hurling back in some shape !

the beer revolu

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120503336#Comment_120503336

Oh, the Cork ever the victim vibes are strong in this one 🤣

Straight Talker

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120503336#Comment_120503336

I'd imagine due to Cork being bigger than Limerick and Galway that we need more buses. I don't think there's any buses servicing the city that are over ten or eleven years old though. As for the GAA we need to find someone with JP's wealth to bring some funding in! We still haven't paid for the Stade De Frank yet!🤣

PreCocious

Our buses are all 151 or younger and were delivered new to Cork. The reason some are L reg is that the registrations were spread across local authorities rather than the usual stunt of regging them all in Dublin. The HSE do that with ambulances as well (even if a lot seem to be KE reg).

There used be a time when Cork buses were retired to the flat roads of Limerick city after a lifetime bashing the hills of Cork.