Bus Eireann staff to strike. What are your opinions? (10)
Other: Privatise Bus Eireann. Subsidize *some* loss making routes. Most of these Semi State companies they are loss making dinosaurs.
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MADDOG69: Other: Privatise Bus Eireann. Subsidize *some* loss making routes. Most of these Semi State companies they are loss making dinosaurs.
Good point! I'd be for privatisation myself. The difficulty I suppose does come on the loss making routes.
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mr1983: Good point! I'd be for privatisation myself. The difficulty I suppose does come on the loss making routes.
The loss making routes to be subsidized would have to be a political decision. I remember years back getting buses to Carlow. I abandoned Bus Eireann altogether and used JJ Kavanagh. Was cheaper, and the drivers weren't mental.
With Bus Eireann now running at a projected 16m loss a year, sure it's a disaster.
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MADDOG69: The loss making routes to be subsidized would have to be a political decision.
I remember years back getting buses to Carlow. I abandoned Bus Eireann altogether and used JJ Kavanagh. Was cheaper, and the drivers weren't mental.
With Bus Eireann now running at a projected 16m loss a year, sure it's a disaster.
I remember years back getting buses to Carlow. I abandoned Bus Eireann altogether and used JJ Kavanagh. Was cheaper, and the drivers weren't mental.
With Bus Eireann now running at a projected 16m loss a year, sure it's a disaster.
I used to use the JJ Kavanagh buses from Tipp to Dublin myself years ago. Cheaper, faster and an all-round better service.
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mr1983: I used to use the JJ Kavanagh buses from Tipp to Dublin myself years ago. Cheaper, faster and an all-round better service.
Yep. Here's the thing though. The likes of Kavanagh's can cherry pic their routes. So they do the Big ones, Waterford-Ariport, Galway-Airport, Limerick-Airport. etc etc.... the money making ones. Bus Eireann are lumbered with a lot of smaller routes, cross country ones, where they'd be not many people on. The problem is that many of the people would be pensioners and they'd have no way getting from town to another, say. So it's a necessity to have them.
Outside of that though, typical of Semi-State's I'd say Bus Eireann make a bollix of even the Gold routes in terms of costs.
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MADDOG69: Yep. Here's the thing though. The likes of Kavanagh's can cherry pic their routes. So they do the Big ones, Waterford-Ariport, Galway-Airport, Limerick-Airport. etc etc.... the money making ones. Bus Eireann are lumbered with a lot of smaller routes, cross country ones, where they'd be not many people on. The problem is that many of the people would be pensioners and they'd have no way getting from town to another, say. So it's a necessity to have them.
Outside of that though, typical of Semi-State's I'd say Bus Eireann make a bollix of even the Gold routes in terms of costs.
Outside of that though, typical of Semi-State's I'd say Bus Eireann make a bollix of even the Gold routes in terms of costs.
It would be interesting to see a comparison of the different wages/expenses/allowances of staff in the different companies.
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would anyone notice 
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fifitrixibelle: would anyone notice
Ya would if you normally use Bus Eaireann and then there was no bus, 'cos the they were on strike.
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fifitrixibelle: would anyone notice
Yep quite a few people will be affected. People use buses to get to work, school, university, town, around town/city, etc. They carry around 80 million people every year which is a drop from nearly 100 million a few years ago.
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mr1983: Yep quite a few people will be affected. People use buses to get to work, school, university, town, around town/city, etc. They carry around 80 million people every year which is a drop from nearly 100 million a few years ago.
School buses, that's right. The parents who have paid their €360/yr already will be well annoyed.
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Bus Eireann staff to strike. What are your opinions?(Vote Below)
I'm not sure of the average wage of the workers but saw figures of an average of 33000. This will probably depend on experience,etc. With overtime it can range from 43000 to 49000. Again, these figures are just from other sources so feel free to correct these.
I will vote for the Reagan option.