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THIS WEEK WILL see progress on the Government’s sustainable transport plans with the completion of the installation of electric bus charging infrastructure in Dublin Bus’ Summerhill Depot in Dublin.
One of two hubs for Dublin city’s new green fleet, the infrastructure will become fully operational this week with the capacity to recharge 56 battery-electric buses.
Charging infrastructure at the second hub in Phibsborough will be completed by the end of December.
The Phibsborough hub will have the capacity to recharge 80 battery-electric buses.
The two depots will support a minimum of 136 electric buses in total.
Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan is at Summerhill Depot this afternoon to unveil the infrastructure. He said the change driven by electricity will be “transformative for our public transport network”.
“It’s going to make our air cleaner and our streets quieter, providing quality and reliable buses for people, and helping us to meet our climate targets for the capital city, and for the country,” Ryan said.
The NTA initially ordered 120 double decker battery-electric buses in 2022, 100 of which will be operated by Dublin Bus with the remaining 20 operated by Bus Éireann.
However, due to a lack of charging infrastructure only some of these buses are currently in operation.
In recent weeks, new double decker battery-electric buses have been operational on certain Dublin Bus routes including the 122 and 123. Over 360 drivers have completed testing, piloting and training programme using the new buses in recent weeks.
Dublin Bus said today that even more of these electric buses will become operational now that the charging infrastructure has been completed.
Orders have been placed for a further 221 electric buses, of which 120 are destined for operation in Dublin. This brings the total number either in service or on order to 341 buses.
The new zero-emission fleet will replace the older diesel-powered fleet on an incremental basis as the latter buses reach the end of their efficient operational life.
The Government plans for over 85% of the Dublin fleet to be zero-emission with a minority being low-emission hybrid diesel-electric buses by 2032.
By 2035 it is planned that these hybrid buses will also have been phased out and the fleet will be fully zero-emission.
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Accord marriage counselling. dont make me laugh. they charged us 150 euros three years ago for a mandatory pre marriage course that lasted a day. I needed counselling after paying out that kind of cash.
Stephen, how was it mandatory?
In order to get married in the catholic church, you must do this course
That Bertie bloke’s got a lot to answer for.
You shouldn’t have married him.
Marriage is something that you have to work at. Once both of you talk openly with each other a lot of silly issues can be resolved before they get out of control. Try your best to keep mother in laws away from negotiations as that can spell serious trouble.
It would really help also if the gluttens in the Government stopped savaging peoples finances because the cost of living ain’t coming down e.g mortgages,shopping,electricity/gas…
A good half of marriages I know are financially agreeable. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t last long. People call that love here! Ha ha ha!
Never do it, locked to 1 person for the rest of UR life, no thank u
Totally agree Louise, can’t understand why anyone would get married in this day and age.
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I wonder if Accord will offer their services to the gays when equality in marriage happens.
No, and if it’s marital stress caused by something like having had a pregnancy terminated, they’d probably just hang up the phone on you!
Will they have people qualified enough to deal with gays? Would the counsellors not need to be gay themselves so as to offer the best service.
‘The gays’, its like being back in the 90′s. Sean, how very logical of you.
‘The gays’, its like being back in the 90′s.
Money. The root of all evil ,
Perhaps we need that asteroid to veer off course and smash into earth,
The world really does need to hit there reset button , before the greed ends up forcing us to self destruct
Im afraid to tell you the reset button is made up. We’ll just have to make do . . . Awkward!!
Read “the midnight companion ” http://www.dealing-with-separation.com it’s brilliant .
I think that people want to save their relationships way above the need for financial problems. If it was that simple we would see sites like http://markkordubapsychologist.com/couples-counselling-brisbane/ becoming null and void. Relationship and marriage counselling has become such a useful tool for people because we don’t ever really get a set of instructions when we start a relationship :) Interesting article!
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