Cllr Doyle queries location of Blackrock bus shelter on side of road not used by buses

Dundalk South's Cllr Maria Doyle has queried the location of a recently installed National Transport Authority (NTA) bus shelter in Blackrock with Louth County Council, saying that the side of the road on which the shelter is located is not being serviced by any buses.

Cllr Doyle raised the matter at the Dundalk Municipal District December meeting, commenting that she noticed from the monthly management report, that the NTA bus shelters that were being installed in the area are almost complete and raised the query in relation to a bus shelter located on Seafield Road in Blackrock.

Cllr Doyle said that from her understanding the location of the bus shelter is “not ideal, in so far as there doesn't appear to be any bus servicing that side of the road". She said that neither public or private buses come down that side of the road and asked if the council was aware of that and what criteria was used to choose the location of the bus shelters.

She added that from her understanding there was a bus that comes down the other side of the road but not the side on which the bus shelter was located, according to people who lived along that road and people who contacted her in relation to it.

In response the meeting heard that Louth County Council had met with the NTA and Bus Éireann, who would have been involved in the choosing of the locations for the bus shelters, and that the Council would revert to them on the matter.