 Bus air and have announced that a number of bus routes will be discontinued following the latest budget cuts. The Dublin-Clammel, Atlone to Westport and Dublin Dairy Routes have been axed in order to make savings of 1.1 million euros. They've also announced the possibility of an all-out strike. There was a mixed response to the news from the students here at DCU. I suppose it was a success for the Dublin bus so like that is kind of you know as a whole like a successful thing right like that you know it worked for the last guys so it might work for them but like it doesn't personally affect me either like plus the bus or services like where we're from we're from Tipperary and they're absolutely like shocking down there like it's really really bad like there's like one bus a day to wherever you need to go like there's nothing so and like I think the prices are like kind of crazy. Yeah like I live in Routes so it does affect me like I come in and out here on the Dublin bus or bus air and sorry but I support the strike because like I think that like the transport sector is really underfunded and while it does inconvenience me I'm like broadly supportive of the strike anyway. Yeah well coming from Raskam and trying to get the bus up in the weekends if there's no bus running by I've no real other way of getting up I've no way to get into town to get a train a year depending on lifts or buses and if there's no bus I can't really go to college. Well it does personally affect me because I travel up and down from Mayo every week so I use either the train or the bus whichever is easier. I don't know much about the strikes to be honest but if it's more money for the bus drivers then I'm up for it. I think it's a bit silly that they're going on strike at the moment with the company making such a loss but I do understand at the same time you know they do need to express their kind of opinion on the wage decreases for them but I do think they'll they should go back and talk to bus air management and come to a compromise on the matter. It is affecting an awful lot of rural routes coming up in the town to Dublin so hopefully they can come to a compromise very soon. Approximately 110,000 bus passengers will be affected if the proposed bus strikes go ahead. The CAO of bus airing Ray Hurnen stated that the strike would cost the company half a million euro a day. Colleen Brady DCUTV News