TFI Local Link, or simply Local Link, is a set of local bus services in Ireland providing local public transport in rural areas, typically linking villages to local towns. As well as scheduled services, Local Link provides bookable door-to-door services for those with reduced mobility.[1][2] The services are publicly subsidised.
A 2002 pilot project "Rural Transport Initiative" was started to look into unaddressed transport needs, giving rise to a "Rural Transport Programme". Services were originally managed locally by voluntary groups. A 2013 restructuring of management reduced the large number of local groups to a number of "Transport Co-ordination Units" (subsequently branded as "Local Link offices"). Funding is from the government's Public Service Obligation via the National Transport Authority (NTA) under its Transport for Ireland (TFI) brand. In February 2023, the government proposed a large expansion of Local Link services.[3]
Servicesedit
Bus services are managed by TFI and operated by a large number of local operators (400 as at 2021).[1] As of 2023, Local Link services were managed by 15 local offices. These offices cover:
Donegal Sligo Leitrim
Cavan Monaghan
Mayo
Galway
Longford Westmeath Roscommon
Louth Meath Fingal
Laois Offaly
Kildare & South Dublin
Limerick Clare
Tipperary
Carlow Kilkenny Wicklow
Kerry
Cork
Waterford
Wexford
Referencesedit
^ ab"Rural Transport Programme/TFI Local Link". National Transport Authority. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
^"Bus services". Citizens Information. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
^Freiberg, Rubina (17 February 2023). "Over 60 additional rural bus services proposed across Ireland". Agriland. Retrieved 6 June 2023.
External linksedit
Official website
December 01, 2023
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