{"id":3928,"date":"2019-02-07T10:25:55","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T10:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/?p=3928"},"modified":"2019-02-07T13:23:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T13:23:26","slug":"luas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/luas\/","title":{"rendered":"Luas numbers on the rise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Todays Dublin Economic Monitor report by Dublin City Council has highlighted a fifth consecutive quarter of growth in LUAS passenger trips with upward of 10 million passenger trips per quarter .<\/p>\n

These figures represent a YoY increase of 10,6% .<\/p>\n

However total passenger trips across all four transport systems were down slightly in Q3 2018 ( 55.1 million ) compared with Q2 2018 ( 55.5 million ) <\/p>\n

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In Q4 2018 passenger trips on Bus Eireann and Dublin Bus decreased by 4% and 0.7% respectively while Irish Rail ( 0.9% ) and LUAS ( 0.7% ) Passenger numbers increased QoQ .<\/p>\n

Some other key highlights from the report include,<\/p>\n

. Overall Sales + 5.8%
\n. Overseas Tourism Spend + 15.8%
\n. E- Commerce + 3.6%
\n. Entertainment + 12.5%
\n. Discretionary + 5.9%
\n. Necessities + 5.8%<\/p>\n

The growth in Tourism spend is strong and was largely driven by Chinese , German and US tourists according to the report <\/p>\n

In particular the introduction of non-stop direct flights from Beijing and the soon to be commenced direct flight from Shenzhen to Dublin will see a significant rise in the Chinese spend.<\/p>\n

Expenditure by French ( +16.7% ) and US ( +13.4 % ) tourists also showing strong growth <\/p>\n

Elsewhere on our platform you can read the economic and labour market findings from the report which while positive point out a significant skills and accommodation problem for the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Todays Dublin Economic Monitor report by Dublin City Council has highlighted a fifth consecutive quarter of growth in LUAS passenger trips with upward of 10 million passenger trips per quarter . These figures represent a YoY increase of 10,6% . However total passenger trips across all four transport systems were down slightly in Q3 2018 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3928"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3937,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3928\/revisions\/3937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/project.blueberry.ie\/back4good\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}