Rural Wexford transport

Does the initiative have a local residents' support? I thought that most are living in rural places as they don't need services and love living in a wild nature and isolated from the civilisation. Otherwise, can move closer to the big towns or cities. Serving small town is expensive, inefficient and currently not easily done due to driver shortage. Have this been raise with local politicians? What did they say?

If you had bothered to actually do some research, you'd realise that the Connecting Ireland project is a five year project rolling out new or improved services across the country.

The scale of the project is such that it is inevitably going to take time to deliver it between recruiting sufficient staff and purchasing new vehicles.

The Wexford to Gorey route 379 via Kilmuckridge is one that is going to be enhanced to a minimum of 3 return services each day, but this will be sometime between 2024 and 2026. There is also another service, route 380, planned from Wexford to Gorey via Oulart and Ballycanew which will have a similar frequency.

In Wexford there are already improved services under the Local Link banner:

• Route 368 Enniscorthy-New Ross (5 return services)
• Route 369 Enniscorthy-Bunclody (6 return services, 3 extended to Tullow)
• Route 384 Enniscorthy-Wexford (5 return services)
• Route 387 Wexford-Rosslare Harbour (14 return services)
• Route 388 Wexford-Duncormick (10 return services)
• Route 399 New Ross-Hook Head (To launch next week with 4 return services)

That's a vast improvement over what was there before.

Sure it takes time to deliver, but the project is delivering real improvements in rural public transport.

To be fair - they’ve been there all along and haven’t changed, with many of those only being once or twice a week.

You need to focus on what Connecting Ireland is delivering.

It is the NTA who introduced the routes. Local Link is just an umbrella brand under which the operators work under the contract with the NTA.

No they are private commercially operated bus services.