Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Thursday, 26 Oct 2000

Vol. 525 No. 1

Written Answers. - Public Transport.

Richard Bruton

Ceist:

87 Mr. R. Bruton asked the Minister for Public Enterprise the total number of buses and their total passenger capacity in use by Dublin Bus in 1990, in 1995 and in 2000; and if she will give, for the same years, the total number of suburban rail carriages and their total passenger capacity in use in the Dublin suburban rail system. [23735/00]

Richard Bruton

Ceist:

88 Mr. R. Bruton asked the Minister for Public Enterprise the total number of passengers carried by Dublin Bus and by the Dublin suburban rail system in each of the years since 1990; and the trend over the same period of their respective share in peak hour journeys into the city. [23743/00]

Minister for Public Enterprise (Mrs. O'Rourke)

I propose to take Questions Nos. 87 and 88 together.

Please find below the information provided by CIE, in tabular form:

1. Total Number of Passengers Carried 1990 – 2000

Year	Irish Rail(ooo's)	Dublin Bus(ooo's)
1990	18,000	167,100
1991	18,100	172,600
1992	18,207	175,641
1993	18,240	165,714
1994	17,943	177,557
1995	18,812	184,988
1996	19,537	185,543
1997	20,507	188,000
1998	22,315	191,700
1999	22,546	193,023
2000 (Projected)	22,249	183,750

2. With regard to the Deputy's request in relation to the bus and rail share of the a.m. peak hour journeys, this information is only available for the years 1991 and 1997 and is based on origin/destination studies carried out by the Dublin Transportation Office.

	1991	1997
Bus	26%	19%
Rail	10%	9%

3. Total Number of Dublin Bus buses and their capacity:

	1990	1995	2000
Vehicles	837	878	1,100
Capacity	69,880	65,845	85,155

4. Total number of carriages (Outer Suburban, DART and ARROW) in use on suburban network and their capacity:

	1990	1995	2000
Carriages	80	109	158
Capacity	14,000	17,920	24,740