Kildare North TD Calls For Lack Of Reliability In Bus Routes To Be Tackled Immediately

The Sinn Féin TD the lack of reliability on 115 and 120 must be addressed.

People know that "public transport is the way to go' but,'when they try to do their bit, there’s nothing there for them,' according to a Kildare North TD.

Sinn Féin TD Réada Cronin raised with the government the serious difficulties people in North Kildare are facing with public transport. 

She said the lack of reliability on the 115 and 120 bus routes is causing huge annoyance for people depending on them, and she has raised this in the Dáil. 

She said it is “a travesty” that people who had reduced, or given up their car use for Climate, have now been forced to return to it due to the lack of reliability in public transport in North Kildare.

Deputy Cronin commented: “People are sick of waiting for buses that don’t arrive. Public transport will be trusted and become the no-brainer option is must be, only when it is cheap and reliable. 

"We cannot expect people to turn to public transport when they can’t trust it to get them to work or wherever they need to be

“North Kildare is a beautiful place to live with a thriving community. It’s great that so many want to stay here or move here, but the hard fact is that public transport is not keeping pace with the planning and building that is happening or with people’s expectation of life in the 21st century, where the basics are supposed to work.

“I have already been calling for the extension of the DART to Kilcock. The station is already there with thousands of commuters simply dying to get a DART service locally. I have been raising the serious problems people are having locally with the 115 and 120 buses. It’s just galling for them to be left waiting.

“We cannot have people moving into developments where there is not sufficient public transport locally. On top of that, people in North Kildare are way ahead of the government.

"They know full well that Climate Change and its effects are already here. There are heat warnings next door in the UK and Europe is sizzling. The sea has made its way 30 kms along the dried-out riverbed of Italy’s most important river for agriculture and food.

"People know we live in a small world now and public transport, is literally, the way to go. And when they try to do their bit, there’s nothing there for them.

“Not everyone can cycle. People need reliable public transport and providing it must be a priority for the next government both for quality of life in our community, and to do all we can to keep the now-inevitable temperature rises on land and ocean as low as possible for our children," she added.