A bus shelter is essential for the people of Dungloe

There is dire need for a bus shelter in Dungloe as people are standing out in the rain soaking while waiting on buses and then have to sit for around an hour in wet clothes before reaching their destination, Sinn Féin Councillor Marie Therese Gallagher said. 

She was speaking at a recent Glenties Municipal District meeting. 

“It is terrible to see people soaking wet standing there and waiting on a bus and then having  to sit there for an hour,” she said.  

Funding was allocated for a bus shelter prior to the pandemic in town but due to the pandemic no work carried out at the time. 

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“There was a plan drawn up because of Covid, and to be fair, they didn’t go ahead and the department pulled back the funding last year. So, now we are in a situation where we have to look for more funding to ensure that we have a proper sheltered area there,” she said. 

Cllr Gallagher said that as she was driving down Dungloe recently she observed a bus trying to pull into the car park but because of a kerb the bus driver had great difficulty. Earlier in the meeting she said that buses have to turn three times in the car park adding that the car park is a one-way system. 

Coaches and other similar sized vehicles come to the town. 

People also stand outside Doherty’s waiting on buses and the car park would prove a safer area, Cllr Gallagher added.