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Buses at the Broadstone depot Sam Boal/Rollingnews.ie

Bus Éireann conducting feasibility study for potential future move from Broadstone Depot

The company said it was looking into potential future locations given expected passenger growth.

BUS ÉIREANN HAS issued a contract for a feasibility study to be conducted on potential sites it could relocate to from its current Broadstone base in future.

TheJournal.ie understands that there are no current plans to move from the Broadstone depot any time soon, but the study will be an exercise in looking at possible locations that could work ahead of any future move.

Any move would be pursued to accommodate an expected increase in demand for its services in the coming decades and to help the company reach its climate change targets. 

Broadstone is a former railway station that was repurposed into becoming the headquarters of Bus Éireann in north Dublin and houses most of its 1,000+ fleet of buses.

In the notice of tender, the company said it requires a “study to be carried out to determine whether a proposed move of the Broadstone depot and related offices and services to another location is feasible”. 

The deadline for responses to the tender is in mid-October, and it’s envisaged the feasibility study would be concluded in early 2020.

A spokesperson for the transport company told TheJournal.ie: “Bus Éireann are seeking to carry out a feasibility study for a new depot facility in the Greater Dublin Area.

Bus Éireann commissioned the study as demand for public bus transport is expected to increase over the next twenty years. This study will also support and assist Bus Éireann’s commitment under the climate action plan.
No decision has been made in relation to the Broadstone site and the feasibility study is expected to take three months to complete from commencement.

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    Mute Mark Mccormack
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    Sep 22nd 2019, 8:24 AM

    Future growth me back side… Selling for development and massive profit.

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    Mute Tim Pot
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    Sep 22nd 2019, 8:32 AM

    @Mark Mccormack:

    #savethebusdepot

    Why not both, it would probably be in the public good.

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    Mute Garreth Mc Mahon
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    Sep 22nd 2019, 8:46 AM

    @Tim Pot: residents would complain as the depot is 24hr

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    Sep 22nd 2019, 9:12 AM

    @Mark Mccormack: it’s a protected structure, cannot be redeveloped.

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    Mute Mark Mccormack
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    Sep 22nd 2019, 10:08 AM

    @Belebop: land can

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    Mute In my opinion
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    Sep 22nd 2019, 9:16 AM

    Another suggestion would be to sell the Donnybrook garage. That’s a prime site waiting to be snapped up.

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    Sep 22nd 2019, 9:09 AM

    It’d be a beautiful hub for the community, maybe a market, foodhall, gallery, performance space – right beside the TUD campus

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    Sep 22nd 2019, 9:35 AM

    @Rochey77: lovely idea!

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    Mute Connor Kelly
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    Sep 22nd 2019, 9:51 AM

    Land right beside a college and city centre. Be bought by developers and yet more overpriced student aparthotels knocked up

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    Mute Paul Maguire
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    Sep 22nd 2019, 9:45 AM

    Get rid off Busaras it’s an eyesore

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    Mute Dr. X (Official Continuity Faction)
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    Sep 22nd 2019, 10:27 AM

    @Paul Maguire: No it’s good actually.

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    Sep 22nd 2019, 11:29 AM

    More FG selling off state assets

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    Sep 22nd 2019, 11:31 AM

    More selling off of state assets by FG

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    Sep 22nd 2019, 1:56 PM

    The Broadstone building with its glorious neoclassical colonnade, substantial floorspace and prominent location (now also with two luas stops and the new elegant Grangegorman campus at its doorstep) should be finely restored and used for international exhibitions or other major cultural uses/events.

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    Sep 22nd 2019, 4:27 PM

    @Paolo Chookeenee: would have been nice if the Luas stop was better integrated.

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    Sep 22nd 2019, 9:54 AM

    Land right beside a college and city centre yet more overpriced student aparthotels nobody can afford getting built

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    Sep 22nd 2019, 4:26 PM

    broadstone is been redeveloped by dublin bus at the moment for reopening bus eireann needs extra room for larger and larger coaches a new busarus and broadstone built along the m50 with good transport links to luas rail and dublin bus services is required possibly close to the airport area

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