{"id":54350,"date":"2024-07-01T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-01T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54350"},"modified":"2024-06-27T20:40:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T19:40:27","slug":"passenger-journeys-increase-on-luas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54350","title":{"rendered":"Passenger journeys increase on Luas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newly released figures by the National Transport Authority have shown that 2023 saw record-breaking numbers travel on public transport in Ireland. Figures across all public transport increased by 5% but for Dublin\u2019s Luas tram system it was even better news than that.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 2023 figures for Luas show that there were 48.2 million passenger journeys recorded. In comparison there were 38.7 million journeys during 2022 \u2013 that gives a 9.5% increase year on year and means they have gone past pre-pandemic numbers.<\/p>\n<p>As well as good news on the number of passengers front, the same report also gives information on the reliability of the network. 2023 saw a major decrease in lost kilometres (this is in effect journeys which didn\u2019t operate) after 2022 had seen significant issues with tram availability. Back in period 1 2022 this percentage figure was at 16% but during 2023 it was as low as 1% but did increase to 9% towards the end of the year again.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The full report (for all public transport) can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationaltransport.ie\/publications\/nta-pso-performance-annual-report-2023\/\">https:\/\/www.nationaltransport.ie\/publications\/nta-pso-performance-annual-report-2023\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly released figures by the National Transport Authority have shown that 2023 saw record-breaking numbers travel on public transport in Ireland. Figures across all public transport increased by 5% but for Dublin\u2019s Luas tram system it was even better news &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/?p=54350\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54351,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54350\/revisions\/54351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.britishtramsonline.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}