“Incompetenza scioccante”: autobus elettrici del valore di decine di milioni restano fermi per un anno e mezzo a causa della mancanza di punti di ricarica
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/shocking-incompetence-electric-buses-worth-tens-of-millions-sit-idle-for-year-and-a-half-due-to-lack-of-charging-points/a828840626.html
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Just plug them into the e-voting machines.
That was easy to foresee. There’s no space for the buses. There needs to be new large bus centers. Somewhere. That will have the facilities to charge thousands of busses. Each bust been a specfic distance away dur.to battery fires. A lot of space. Then maintaining the buses. Presently large garages overall thr buses. Been electric this is now more complicated. Again space been needed etc
It is another demonstration on behalf of this government of its abject failure to be able to be to deliver value for the Irish taxpayer and to be able to show competence when it comes to public procurement.
Now we are on the hook for storage and maintenance of the buses, wait until you see, it’s 2026 and these will be like the voting machines!
“I propose we put the cart before the horse”
Someone in a Dublin bus meeting probably.
I don’t think it gets noted enough on here just how much of our infrastructure projects get delayed waiting for ESB connections.
I don’t know if it’s a factor in this case but up and down the country projects are delayed while waiting for the ESB to make connections.
I don’t blame the guys working at ESB making the connections as they are flat out. But something in the process of applying for a connection and it actually happening needs to improve.
I’ll take one
I can’t read this article but there was another article about this a few weeks back: [link](https://www.thejournal.ie/over-130-electric-buses-unable-to-be-used-nowhere-to-charge-them-6989370-Mar2026/) in the journal.
The planning process seems to be one of the issues, as the local authorities in Galway went through the full planning process.
And overall failure seems to be with the NTA.
Anyone being held accountable yet? Or just more public sector nonsense
Hardly a surprise when public procurement has brought us everything from e-voting machines that cost millions to buy & store to a €2m Oireachtas printer that was too big to fit through the door.
Quick summary:
*€38m worth of electric buses are idle because depot charging infrastructure is not ready. In total, 110 buses are not in service, including 76 double-deckers unused for over 500 days and 14 Dublin buses idle for about 860 days. The delays are blamed on planning, tender, grid-capacity and charger-installation issues. The NTA says buses must be ordered years ahead, making timing difficult, but PAC chair John Brady called it “shocking incompetence” and wants urgent action. Some Dublin buses may enter service in late 2026, while Limerick and Galway buses may wait until late 2026 or early 2027.*
What I can’t understand is that you have to assume that there are people who are reasonably competent and well meaning in these roles.
I’ve only ever worked in the private sector but why is there such a disregard for costs with government spending?
Is it because they don’t view it as “theirs” so its not the same as a private business?
And to think, some people have suggested we should build a nuclear power station.
I wonder will the Gov setup a group to investigate it, or maybe a bus tsar or maybe we need a bus taskforce or maybe just a super junior minister for buses
It’s incompetence, but it’s not shocking.
Definitely zero emissions then