Campaigns to retain three bus routes in Dublin were given voice outside Dublin Bus headquarters this afternoon.
Save the 19 Bus campaigners were joined by local residents served by the numbers 13, 13a and 3 bus routes whose services are due to be curtailed.
Up to 50 people protested outside the Dublin Bus office in O'Connell Street and demanded that bus services be kept in their current form.
The event was part of a series of protests against changes in bus transport provision being implemented by Dublin Bus and was organised by local residents and People Before Profit.
The vocal crowd chanted slogans and waved placards urging the company to change its mind about cutting services.
The 19 bus serves areas north of Finglas, through Drumcondra, the city centre, Church Street, to Crumlin, Goldenbridge, terminating at Bulfin Road.
The no 3 begins at Larkhill on the northside of the city, travelling through Drumcondra, to the city centre and on to UCD. And the 13/13a serves Harristown, Ballymun Road, through Dorset Street to Merrion Square.
Speaking today, Killian Raynor, of the Save The Number 3 Bus campaign said the residents of Larkhill and Crestfield had seen a massive reduction in their bus service over the last two years, with services reduced from one bus every fifteen minutes to one every thirty minutes.
"Now Dublin Bus propose to make it one bus every sixty minutes peak-time and one bus every two hours off-peak," he said.
"This is unacceptable and we vow to fight it all the way. Dublin Bus should be improving the service by putting more buses on the streets of Dublin not taking them off; it's ridiculous."
