Petition: Reliable Buses Now

Affected by a no-show or ghost bus? Report it below (direct link here) and please consider signing the petition below.

We the undersigned call for:

  1. An action plan to end Ghost Buses in 2025: Transport for Ireland should provide details of how they will end the no show fiasco, and ensure all cancelled buses are properly reported and updated on the live travel information
  2. Recruit & retain bus workers and mechanics: We support the workers in their fight for proper pay, conditions and union rights so we can recruit and retain the staff needed for a reliable bus service
  3. Increase investment in public transport from the government, to increase the frequency and reliability
  4. End the privatisation experiment: No to the renewal of contracts with Go-Ahead or giving them more routes, instead bring them back under Dublin Bus, as a step to reversing privatisation of public transport.

We believe privatisation has failed, and that would be made clear by a genuine public review of the privatisation experiment across public transport by workers and commuters, including opening the books of the private operators to see the profits being made. Instead, we believe public transport should be a public service: free, fast and frequent.

Who's signing

Mary McCartan
Sarah Flynn
A Holland
Bill Harrison
I S
Charles Clavin
Sarah Munson
Dylan Smith
Allison Chisholm
Pate Weiss
Paul Price
mary Gillespie
Stefan Bucur
avah McCann
Kate Turner
James Foy
Caroline Maher Rowsome
Linda Maher
202 signatures

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Report a no show bus here

The Dublin Inquirer has launched noshowbus.ie as a platform for people to report no show and ghost buses, so they can be tracked, highlighted and pressure brought on to improve the situation. If you experience a no show bus, you can report it using the form below:

  • Grace Campbell
    signed 2026-03-03 23:36:23 +0000
  • Mary McCartan
    signed 2026-03-03 15:42:20 +0000
  • Sarah Flynn
    signed 2026-03-03 15:02:12 +0000
  • Martin Murray
    signed 2026-02-21 13:30:13 +0000
    Another day Another ghost bus I’m out here in Blackrock dart station stop number 7757 now I’m going to be late yet again for work because TFI can’t run a bus service also the station ( Blackrock) had 4 buses there whit 4 drivers .


    And none off them new anything about the buses that just go off the board.


    When will this end.
  • A Holland
    signed 2025-11-02 09:13:03 +0000
    Waited for the S8 from Dun Laoghaire to Citywest Thurs 30/10/25 from 5.15pm to 6.45pm in the rain. The driver who eventually took us had just done his route from Citywest and didn’t take his break. I cannot rely on this service at all and cycle 32kms a day because I know I can rely on myself. The S8 ‘service’ witnessed the infrequent times I use it from Dun Laoghaire to Citywest is 90% unreliable
  • Anastasiia Lytvyn
    signed 2025-10-16 10:08:54 +0100
  • Bill Harrison
    signed 2025-07-06 13:02:41 +0100
  • I S
    signed 2025-06-10 22:20:22 +0100
  • Wayne Smyth
    signed 2025-05-19 10:23:45 +0100
  • Robyn Smullen
    signed 2025-05-09 17:22:20 +0100
  • Charles Clavin
    signed 2025-05-05 17:52:33 +0100
  • Sarah Munson
    signed 2025-05-05 17:52:09 +0100
  • Ann Sunil
    signed 2025-05-04 07:56:21 +0100
  • Dylan Smith
    signed 2025-05-01 17:51:14 +0100
    65 is the most inconsistent bus on the Dublin bus route
  • Allison Chisholm
    signed 2025-04-19 18:05:06 +0100
    bus didn’t show up and showed the time twice then disappeared and never came had to wait another 30 min to get home
  • Pate Weiss
    signed 2025-04-08 13:29:13 +0100
    I’m a student who takes the E1 to UCD most days of the week. The E1 and E2 are both a complete joke! I once left the house over an hour before I usually would as I had a presentation to give that day and I couldn’t risk being late due to a delayed bus. Two buses never showed up, one was full and drove by, and the last bus was delayed by 10 minutes. I was 20 minutes late and almost failed that class! This was the worst example of the E1 being inconsistent, but inconsistentency is the only consistent thing about it. Privatization NEVER works. Why do we have to pay taxes when the taxes don’t ever seem to be used to benefit the people? We deserve better public transport than this.
  • Paul Price
    signed 2025-04-01 23:44:10 +0100
  • Catherine Halpin
    signed 2025-04-01 12:57:04 +0100
  • Niall Halpin
    signed 2025-04-01 12:26:19 +0100
  • mary Gillespie
    signed 2025-03-31 20:18:14 +0100
  • Emer Mulligan
    signed 2025-03-31 11:48:26 +0100
  • Brenda Sheehy
    signed 2025-03-31 11:18:23 +0100
  • Stefan Bucur
    signed 2025-03-31 10:45:08 +0100
  • avah McCann
    signed 2025-03-26 17:27:22 +0000
  • Kate Turner
    signed 2025-03-25 16:28:32 +0000
  • Trevor Kinghorne
    signed 2025-03-20 21:26:31 +0000
  • James Foy
    signed 2025-03-07 10:08:34 +0000
  • Caroline Maher Rowsome
    signed 2025-03-06 17:05:58 +0000
  • Linda Maher
    signed 2025-03-06 08:44:55 +0000
  • Andreia Marcuta
    signed 2025-03-05 15:58:32 +0000

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