Nightrider Service for Sligo!

Gillie

In the weekender this morning, Bus Eireann have announced a Nightrider service starting from the 8th of December.
53 Seater Buses will run on two routes Ballisodare/Collooney (€6) and Strandhill/Rosses Point (€5).
The buses will run from 8.30pm to 4.15am.
The full timetable is in todays weekender pg 7.

This is a great idea imo!
Shame they don't have one that goes out as far as Grange!

gustavo

Great idea !If a tad overpriced imo especially the ones before midnight

Gillie

Compared to what you'd pay in a taxi - it's a bargain!!

il gatto

Sounds like a great idea, but I wonder about security? Doesn't sound like the most hassle free way home, stuck on a bus with thirty or forty drunk teenagers. It's only a matter of time before it's dubbed "The Vomit Comet":D

Gillie

LOL.
Surely they know there will have to be security on it?

donegalman1

Are they still part of CIE, or would it be appropriate to mention their train fiascos

6ix

There wont be any security I'm sure. The Nitelink in Dublin does the same thing every weekend with very few problems. In fact, the Nitelink is always good craic at Christmas, with 70-80 strangers drunkenly singing every Christmas song in the book on the way home.

il gatto

Hopefully it'll turn out for the best. It'd be better than paying €16 for a taxi to Strandhill and €22 to Collooney.

Sin scéal eile

Gillie wrote:

Shame they don't have one that goes out as far as Grange!

I'll second that one.

Off Topic question, are you from Grange?

gustavo

Gillie wrote:

Compared to what you'd pay in a taxi - it's a bargain!!

Maybe so but its public transport non the less ! I mean to say that in Dublin for example you can go equivelent distances right up to 12pm for less than 2 euro , obviously post mid night its a different story.

Gillie

Sin sc&#233 wrote: »

I'll second that one.

Off Topic question, are you from Grange?

Nah. I'm a townie!
But i know ppl from out that way.

muffler

Just seen in todays local paper that the same type of service is to run from Ballybofey - Letterkenny - Ballybofey

Gillie

muffler wrote:

Just seen in todays local paper that the same type of service is to run from Ballybofey - Letterkenny - Ballybofey

I would imagine that this wll prove very useful for you guys in Donegal?

retalivity

Gillie wrote:

I would imagine that this wll prove very useful for you guys in Donegal?

yeah, considering ballybofey empties at the weekend to letterkenny.
i heard theres not even one nightclub left in the town at all.

muffler

retalivity wrote:

yeah, considering ballybofey empties at the weekend to letterkenny.
i heard theres not even one nightclub left in the town at all.

There's 3 actually but no fighting at them so the crowd go to Letterkenny

muffler

Gillie wrote:

I would imagine that this wll prove very useful for you guys in Donegal?

Taxi prices from Letterkenny to Ballybofey late at night can cost anything from €30 - €70 depending on how busy it is and what taxi you can get. The one way fare on the bus now will be €7 (I think) so yes this service will make a huge difference

Sin scéal eile

Gillie wrote:

Nah. I'm a townie!
But i know ppl from out that way.

Ah OK, thought maybe I might know you

il gatto

muffler wrote:

Taxi prices from Letterkenny to Ballybofey late at night can cost anything from €30 - €70 depending on how busy it is and what taxi you can get. The one way fare on the bus now will be €7 (I think) so yes this service will make a huge difference

That's a decent saving. Even the cheapest taxi would be over four times the price. The Strandhill/Rosses Point buses aren't as good value wise. €5 is a third the usual price. If it's three people, you'll save nothing. Even for a couple, a taxi will be a small etravagance for a quiet trip home, and being dropped to your door. Not because taxi's are cheap mind, but because the buses are pricey.