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About LinkBacksDUBLIN BUS has been accused of choosing "the soft option in letting 290 people go" by the chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Frank Fahey.
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DUBLIN BUS has been accused of choosing "the soft option in letting 290 people go" by the chairman of the Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Frank Fahey.
More from The Irish Times.
Indeed -it is Dublin Bus's management who should be let go. Their fares are high and despite running a monopoly they are unable to make profits. The management has taken the lazy option here, instead of chasing efficiencies & re-organisation: they've decided to cut services. The easy life is grand for those who have it...
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When it reaches the stage that Frank Fahey occupies the High Moral Ground - can the 4 horsemen be far behind?Originally Posted by NewsBot
Sack the board. Retire off the the oldest (and highly militant 10%). Introduce fares of €1 and €2 - forever. Government should subsidize the rest - forever. It was expected to make a profit - it would be called private transport. But the time whereby dire management allowing a union cabal to the laziest and most intransigent of workers. End company subsidies of canteens, gyms and make them fully contribute to their pensions.
Thius is why we need a Transport Authority. Someone has to realise that now, more then ever, we need buses on the raods.
Please correct me if I am wrong but this is what I have observed over the past couple of months in relation to Dublin Bus.
1) Price hike application allowed and passed on to customers with the reasoning stated as "Dublin Bus needs the revenue"
2) A reduction in the number of buses on the road announced a few weeks after the price hike.
3) A transport plan that endeavours to "force" more people onto Public Transport.
And the latest from the Minister.....http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...breaking68.htm ....which seems to me that he is wiping his hands of the problem.
I am a businessman and I absolutely cannot make business sense of the observations I have made.
Point 1) above - Micheal O'Leary (love him or hate him) basically showed that if you LOWER the prices for passengers you will get MORE revenue through increased use of the service. MOL may have gone too far with the model but you get the point (I am an MOL agnostic so before any Ryanair fundamentalist or jihadist hijacks the thread - f*ck off now please.)
Point 2) above - how, by reducing the service, i.e., the number of operational assets you have, do you get more revenue? I know an argument can be made about profitable scale but the metric mentioned was REVENUE and with less revenue generating units someone has their head up their ar se and needs to go back to do the Leaving Cert in Business Organisation.
Point 3) above - how come one side of the Government can state that MORE people will use Public Transport while another side is openly dismantling it?
DEMPSEY, RYAN WILL YOU EVER GET A ROOM AND TALK YOU PAIR OF INCOMPETENT MUPPETS - IN ADDITION, WILL YOU GET SOMEONE WHO KNOWS HOW TO OPERATE A COST CENTRE ON BUDGET TO RUN THE SYSTEM AND STOP BEING OPENLY DUMB ABOUT THIS.
We are "they"
Dublin Bus management is, like every other semi state, top heavy. But remember DB still has 96 conductors on its books who have been 'reassigned' to other duties in the company. In Irish public service speak you can guess what that means.
Thats the most incredible claim I think I've ever seen on IBEC.ie...
Truely astonishing
'Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.'
Inigo Montoya.
Not much more to say, that nuggest of info is buried in the latest and greatest consultant report on the future of DB PR'd to death by Dempsey in the immediate aftermath of the recent cutbacks announcement.
Report here
http://www.transport.ie/upload/gener...w%20220109.pdf
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