Thursday, April 26, 2007

Potemkin Bus

The Republic of Ireland's state bus company, Bus Éireann, made a splashy announcement yesterday about high frequency double-decker bus service to Dublin from the surrounding counties. The service won't actually be up and running until next year. Could it be that an election approaches? And anyway, there was still the little matter of getting one's hands on one of those new long-distance double-decker buses to show at the announcement --

Bus Éireann borrowed a double-decker coach from Northern Ireland bus company Translink yesterday, covering it with Bus Éireann stickers for the announcement of the expansion by Minister for Transport Martin Cullen.

At least they've moved on from photoshopping in voters with pictures of the leader [here
s the original photoshopped picture].

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