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Dublin Bus smashes records in 2025 (despite Dublin traffic doing its best to stop us)
2 January 2026
- Around 164 million customers carried in 2025
- Number of 24-hour routes expanded to fifteen
- Westmoreland Street stop 319 is Dublin Bus’s busiest
- Route E1 is Dublin Bus’s busiest route
- Congestion sees morning peak average bus speeds drop to 13.5km/h
Dublin Bus shared its highlights of 2025 as it draws the curtain on a record-breaking year! With customer numbers and 24-hour services at record volumes, the company looks back on its busiest year yet!
2024 saw Dublin Bus carry a then-record of 159 million customers. 2025 is easily surpassing that figure, increasing by 5 million journeys to a total of around 164 million. This makes Dublin Bus Ireland’s biggest public transport operator.
On a typical weekday, Dublin Bus carries around 500,000 customers. The busiest day of the year was Wednesday 8 October, when 568,000 people boarded Dublin Bus services across the city.
Stop 319 on Westmoreland Street took the crown as our busiest stop, used by 1.25 million customers in 2025. It serves some of the city’s most frequent routes including the E1, E2, F1, F2 and F3.
Dublin Bus now offers more than 130 routes across the city and Greater Dublin Area, from the high-frequency routes seen on the E or F spine to Express routes and Nitelinks. The busiest route of all is the E1, which carried about 7.5 million customers in 2025. The E1 is a 24-hr route that operates between Ballywaltrim and Northwood.
A much less positive note is the continuing challenge of congestion which Dublin Bus is facing. The company reported that the average peak time speed of its buses on weekday mornings dropped to 13.5km/h in October 2025. A TomTom global report places Dublin as the 10th most congested city globally.
2025 saw the continued expansion of Dublin Bus’s 24-hr routes which now number 15. These are crucial services in keeping Dublin moving as a modern, 21 century capital city. Throughout the year, more than 11 million customers were carried between 10pm and 6am. Great news for those out socialising, as well as shift workers and people serving the night-time economy.
Just two years on from the first electric double-decker rolling out of a depot, Dublin Bus now say that just over 10% of their fleet is fully electric. It is great news for customers as the buses are quieter, smoother, and result in much cleaner air for people living and working in Dublin.
Dublin Bus spokesperson Blake Boland said that “it has been an incredible year with record customer numbers, 2 new phases of Bus Connects, continued electrification of the fleet and record levels of 24-hour services. Issues with congestion still hamper our ability to move about the city freely, but Dublin Bus remains committed to delivering the service that a modern, 24-hour capital city like Dublin deserves.”