Revised (Worse) Nitelink Service

Revised 69N at 00:00,02:00 and 04:00 is terrible,2 hour gap at the hour most people start heading home.

Midnight departure makes little sense and can't see it being used much since the last regular 69's and 13's depart town is at 23:20 or so as it is.

Better served running it at 1.30,3 and 4.

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

that won't happen as it doesn't leave enough time for the bus to run out and back in for the next service, the 2 hour gap does so they need less buses and less drivers.

Nail on head

I would far prefer if the Company simply fessed-up to the actual reasoning beind these "adjustments".

It's the country in microcosm,no ability to provide services due to no funding.

Perhaps appealing to the Busdrivers to work a night for nothing,the fuel companies to supply a nights fuel and oil for nothing,the tyre company to supply a free nights rubber (:eek:),and perhaps the State to supply an extra day's road tax for nowt might work ?

I suspect however,that the only hope of a sustainable NightBus service lies with a 24 Hour Full Service on Trunk Routes.

Perhaps it's worth an Online Poll (Feel Free,Mods) to get a sense of how much demand would be there for such a wildly innovative service on,say,the 16 route ?

66n @ 12, 1, 2, 3, 4

I can't see the midnight service being used all that much, but it may get some people from the "last 66" time. It used to be every half an hour, but there has been less people on it, so this was inevitable, I suppose. 4 o'clock will be fun to see, though, as it'll be getting anybody who has been at a nightclub.

foggy_lad wrote: »

That 666n should really run out to Maynooth as the 67n is not frequent enough for such a large town.

I think people might have a fear of getting on that bus?!

Conway635 wrote: »

Alek is right.

A 24 hour service on ultra-core routes would offer the best prospect of a sustainable service.

Perhaps:

7*, 13*, 14, 16, 27*, 32, 39, 46A, 66, 140

* sticking to main road at places where they usually go into estates.

Hourly or half hourly?

C635

A good spread of routes there Conway635.

I would suggest hourly in both directions Mon-Thursday,with the usual Nitelink Service superimposed (at a €4 fare) on Fri & Sat.

I would suggest that the Nitelink would continue to operate unidirectionally to maximize the City Evacuation principle,although I contend that,in time,a normal stage-carriage service would actually increase usership across the routes.

However,it's highly unlikely that Dublin Bus will pursue this suggestion unless the NTA take it up and "suggest" its desirability

Suppose I'll just have to get the 25N and walk from Ronanstown to Newlands if I want to head home between 2 and 4.

bk wrote: »

More expensive to run.

Even in London, the tube shuts down at night, but is replaced by at least an hourly bus service.

However the Dart should run till at least 12:30. It is embarrassing being in Gdansk/Gydnia in Poland and seeing their rickety equivalent of the DART running all night long, with no security needed on board and night clubs open all night!

It kinda sez it all,when we see many of the STT Rail Security staff are from Poland and earn a crust attempting to control,what is little more than,a crowd of savages.

Island of Saints and Scholars,to which now can be added Scrotes !!!

When it says it operates friday, does that mean very early Friday morning, as in thurs night, or Friday night, as in sat morning?

MarkMc wrote: »

Friday and Saturday nights

Thanks!