All-electric Athlone bus service shows State on ‘cusp of radical change for the better’

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Eamon Ryan says similar initiatives will help reach goal of reducing State’s transport emissions by half

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Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan speaking as Bus Éireann launched Ireland's first fully electric town bus service in Athlone. Photograph: Alan BetsonThe State’s first all-electric town bus service has been launched in Athlone by Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan.

The Green Party leader said transport in the State was “on the cusp of radical change for the better” which would be driven by electric buses, cars and trains. These vehicles would in future, he said, be powered by “our own home-grown, cheaper renewable energy”. “I’m also delighted that this change is starting in Athlone because the other big difference afoot is the upscaling in rural transport that is happening,” Mr Ryan said. “In 2022, we connected 67 new towns with buses and that number will continue to climb.”

Work on the project, involving a €10 million investment by the National Transport Authority, began last year. It has involved 11 new buses being purchased for the midlands town and the installation of charging infrastructure at Bus Éireann’s Station Road depot, which is being powered by a new electricity substation on the site.

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This is almost embarrassing and terribly sad. Deluded costly gimmick. Where's our plastic return bank you promised. Doing anything about our biggest source of greenhouse gasses ie agricultural. Cusp car cusp car cusp car.. Biodiversity, pollution, pesticides, our noxious water

The craze for electric vehicles and dependence is the blind man’s dream … diesel was that in 2008 by the same party …

The coal industry loves it....

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