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Driver not stopping due to bus full.

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  • #52
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,924 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    sdeire wrote: »
    That's the sort of pointless route Network Direct was meant to eliminate.

    Alas, this is Ireland.

    As explained numerous times before Network Direct was about redesigning the network into a combination of direct services to/from the city and local services that serve the communities. It was not about cancelling those routes at all.

    The 239 is far from pointless, and you would know that if you used it.


  • #53
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,924 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    n97 mini wrote: »
    Au contraire, no orbital routes through west Dublin apart from this half baked service. We need proper orbital routes.

    Someone has to pay for that - funding was not forthcoming for either the 166 or enhanced 76 to Blanchardstown.


  • #54
    sdanseo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,234 ✭✭✭sdanseo


    n97 mini wrote: »
    Au contraire, no orbital routes through west Dublin apart from this half baked service. We need proper orbital routes.
    lxflyer wrote: »
    As explained numerous times before Network Direct was about redesigning the network into a combination of direct services to/from the city and local services that serve the communities. It was not about cancelling those routes at all.

    The 239 is far from pointless, and you would know that if you used it.

    Oh don't get me wrong, I agree we need more orbital routes.

    My point is that the 239 in its current existence is horrendously underused and exists only to serve a tiny number of customers.

    With such a low frequency, surely it would be better to re-organize it into a route which perhaps traverses a longer route, serves more areas, and thus can be operated more frequently.


  • #55
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,924 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    sdeire wrote: »
    Oh don't get me wrong, I agree we need more orbital routes.

    My point is that the 239 in its current existence is horrendously underused and exists only to serve a tiny number of customers.

    With such a low frequency, surely it would be better to re-organize it into a route which perhaps traverses a longer route, serves more areas, and thus can be operated more frequently.

    The 239 serves a valid purpose - to be honest the loads are not that bad despite what you might think.

    I think it is a valid local route - that's the point. It is not a main orbital service - that would require a 76 extension to Blanchardstown.


  • #56
    vladicaris
    Registered Users Posts: 21 ✭vladicaris


    Bus didn't stop even it was almost empty..


  • #57
    devnull
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 11,686 Mod ✭✭✭✭devnull


    I've got the 239 end to end twice, once last year, and once about 4 years ago, I've never used it apart from that. I lived near Blanch at that point and needed to go down to near Liffey Valley, so it saved me a large amount of time versus going to the city center and getting a 40/78A as it was then etc.

    It was very lightly used and most people were a mixture of various different quite short hops though. Very few end to end.


  • #58
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,924 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    devnull wrote: »
    I've got the 239 end to end twice, once last year, and once about 4 years ago, I've never used it apart from that. I lived near Blanch at that point and needed to go down to near Liffey Valley, so it saved me a large amount of time versus going to the city center and getting a 40/78A as it was then etc.

    It was very lightly used and most people were a mixture of various different quite short hops though. Very few end to end.

    I would not expect many people to travel end-to-end. It is a local service linking various communities, and that's exactly what it is used for.

    I've used it far more than that, and at different times, and you'd be surprised by how many people got on it at different stages, but it was very much a local bus service.


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