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4.4.1.2 Bus Most bus services connect Carlow to Dublin and Waterford at either end of the M9 corridor. Both Bus Éireann and JJ Kavanagh operate on the Dublin-Waterford route, with a total of 25 services daily. Year-round services exist to other destinations including Wexford, Port Laoise, Tullamore, Athlone, and Naas, although no more than three services per day run to any of these locations. Local Link run a number of demand- responsive services that connect Carlow with towns and villages in its hinterland, although their low frequencies restrict their usefulness to the general population.
Many more bus routes serve Carlow during the college term. Most of these connect Carlow, and Carlow IT in particular, with other parts of the southeast, while services to Limerick and Galway enable students in those cities to return to Carlow at weekends. These services are designed around the college calendar and timetable, and are thus of limited utility to the wider public.
The bus service schedule for Carlow is presented in Table 2
Table 2: Daily bus services, Carlow
Operator
Route
Mon-Thu Friday Saturday Sunday
4, Dublin-Waterford
Bus Éireann Bus Éireann Bus Éireann JJ Kavanagh JJ Kavanagh JJ Kavanagh JJ Kavanagh JJ Kavanagh JJ Kavanagh JJ Kavanagh JJ Kavanagh JJ Kavanagh JJ Kavanagh
9
9
9
9
X4, Dublin-Waterford-New Ross
3
3
3
3
73, Waterford-Kilkenny-Carlow-Port Laoise- Tullamore-Athlone
2
2
2
2/1
736, Dublin-Carlow-Waterford
13
13
13
13
*736A, Carlow-Naas
3
3
-
-
*825, Carlow-Port Laoise-Abbeyleix *873, Kilkenny-Muine Bheag-Carlow *874, Carlow-Tullow-Hacketstown *ITC4, Carlow-Portarlington-Mountmellick *ITC5, Carlow-Monasterevin-The Curragh *N12, Kilkenny-Carlow-Naas-Maynooth *C204, Galway-Kilkenny-Carlow *CRLM – Limerick-Kilkenny-Carlow **400, Carlow-Hacketstown **469/473, Carlow-Graiguecullen **481, Carlow-Borris-Graiguenamanagh
2
2
-
-
2
2
-
-
2
2
-
-
1
1
-
-
1
1
-
-
2/3
2/3
-
-
-
1/-
-
-/1
-
1
-
1
Local Link Local Link Local Link Local Link Local Link Local Link
1 (Wed)
-
-
-
2 (Thu)
1
- - - - -
- - - - -
1 (Mo/We)
-
1 (Thu) 1 (Mon)
1
**484, Carlow-Tullow-Bunclody **487, Carlow-Bilboa-Killeshin 880, Carlow-Kilcullen-Naas
-
3 2 1 1
3 3 1 1 1
2 1 1
1 1 1 1
376, Wexford-Carlow *Carlow IT-Gorey *Carlow IT-Kilkenny *Carlow IT-Wexford
Wexford Bus
Dunnes Coaches Dunnes Coaches Dunnes Coaches
-
-
Note: values with a slash (/) indicate different numbers of services in the inbound and outbound directions * College term only ** Demand responsive
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