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It's one of the busiest weekends in years with big concerts in Dublin from Taylor Swift and Shania Twain, Dublin Pride and Belsonic in Belfast, Foyle Maritime Festival and GAA games galore. As a result Translink will carry almost 1.2 million passenger journeys this week as a result of a range of enhanced and special services bringing people to a wealth of major events across Northern Ireland and Dublin.
To put this number in context, the total population of Northern Ireland is some 1.9 million so it is the equivalent of almost two thirds of the population making a journey on public transport.
Due to the number of events in Dublin this weekend, the majority of our Enterprise services are sold out, including the 1900 and 2050 hours trains from Dublin on Saturday evening, with limited capacity remaining on Sunday evening. Translink strongly advise customers to pre-book tickets when travelling to/from Dublin this weekend to avoid disappointment.
This weekend Translink is using all available capacity with additional services providing an extra 30,000 passengers journeys have proved very popular with many selling out.
Translink’s Director of Service Operations said: “Over the week Translink will complete some 900,000 passenger journeys by bus and around 370,000 via train. This is a huge number and we have utilised all available resources and capacity to deliver this number of journeys.
“It is great to see so many major events this weekend and so diverse in nature and audience. We wish everyone a safe and pleasant journey and hope they enjoy their concert, match or festival – or just a day out.
“With so many young people out and about over the weekend, I want to remind them to take care, follow safety instructions, remember zero emission buses are very quiet and, in general, to just stay alert in and around public transport and ‘Play it Safe’.”
