{"id":37977,"date":"2025-09-23T06:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/37977\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T06:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:38:11","slug":"go-ahead-ireland-to-focus-on-reliability-as-wicklow-service-slammed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/37977\/","title":{"rendered":"Go-Ahead Ireland \u2018to focus on reliability\u2019 as Wicklow service slammed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Go-Ahead Ireland buses at Bray station. \" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/caee1447-dc9d-4ca5-9a55-8315dd1f0467.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Go-Ahead Ireland buses at Bray station. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Go-Ahead Ireland has responded to complaints about the reliability of its Bus Connects local services in north Wicklow, which were rolled out in January this year but have come in for heavy criticism over punctuality and cancellations. The firm said in County Wicklow, it has achieved over 98pc of contracted kilometres, exceeding the minimum contractual requirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Social Democrats TD for Wicklow, Jennifer Whitmore, has hit out at the transport provider over its claims that the services in Wicklow are reliable, when \u201cthe lived experience of passengers tells a different story\u201d, she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Go-Ahead Ireland buses at Bray station. Go-Ahead Ireland has responded to complaints about the reliability of its Bus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43,10687],"class_list":["post-37977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news","tag-tom-galvin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}