Lack of lowfloor buses for the southside

Chillwithcian

Correct me if im wrong, but from my perspective it seems that about 90% of Dublin Bus's accessible routes are on the Northside, Where as there are VERY few on the southside (46A,65/b, a few of the 15 routes and...???). None of the buses listed here (my locality) ever seem to have a whellchair accessible bus operating on them. Is this abit of discrimination bewtween the northside and southside of th city??

enterprise

Route Destination
14 - No Low Floor.
14A - No Low Floor.
15 / 15A / 15B / 15C - Low Floor
15N - Low Floor
15X - ??
16 - Low Floor.
16A - Low Floor.
17 - Non Low Floor.
44 / 44C - Non Low Floor.
44B - Low Floor.
48A - Non Low Floor.
49 / 49A - Low Floor.
49N - Low Floor.
49X - ??
75 - Low Floor.
86 - Non Low Floor.
116 - Non Low Floor.
161 - Low Floor.

Victor

Note Luas runs adjacenty to most of these routes.
14 - No Low Floor.
14A - No Low Floor.
44 / 44C - Non Low Floor.
44B - Low Floor.
48A - Non Low Floor.

Few departures.
86 - Non Low Floor.
116 - Non Low Floor.

Peak time service, probably not low floor.
15X - ??
49X - ??

MiniD

I really don't think it's a Northside/Southside thing. There are areas like Finglas where there is no low floor route. As Victor has mentioned, the area in question is served well by Luas.

The main problem is the large delivery of Olympians which Dublin Bus received between 1997 and 1999. It will take some time before these buses are gone from regular service, but to give credit to DB, they are making progress. The further deliveries of AXs should make a difference. In the last year there has been low floor services put on the 7/7A and 79/A which gave low floor access to areas like Ballyfermot and Loughlinstown. I presume the next delivery of low floor buses to Donnybrook should have some impact on the Dundrum routes.

KC61

Correcting Enterprise Above:
14 - No Low Floor.
14A - No Low Floor.
15 / 15A / 15B / 15C - Mostly Low Floor - Still some non-low floor
15N - Low Floor
15E/ 15F / 15X - Non-low floor
16 / 16A - Mainly non-low Floor. some low floor
17 - Non Low Floor.
44 / 44C - Non Low Floor.
44B - Low Floor.
48A - Non Low Floor.
49 / 49A - Low Floor.
49N - Low Floor.
49X - Non-Low Floor
75 - Non-Low Floor
86 - Non-Low Floor.
116 - Non Low Floor (Can be low floor on occasion)
161 - Non Low Floor (despite official designation)

shltter

1 City Centre (Parnell Sq. East) to Ringsend (E.S.B. Power Station Poolbeg)
2 Parnell Square East to Sandymount (St. John's Church) / Belfield
3 Whitehall to Sandymount (St. John's Church) / Belfield
4 St. Vincent's Hospital, Lansdowne Road, O'Connell Street, Phibsboro Shopping Centre, Botanic Avenue, Ballymun
5 City Centre (O'Connell St.) to Sandyford Industrial Estate
7 City Centre (O'Connell St.) to Loughlinstown Park / Cherrywood
10 Phoenix Park to Donnybrook (Belfield)
10A Phoenix Park to Stillorgan Shopping Centre
11 Wadelai Park to Kilmacud Road
11A Wadelai Park to Mather Road North
11B Wadelai Park to Belfield
18 Donnybrook to Palmerstown Cemetery/Old Lucan Road
19 Jamestown Road to Bulfin Road
19A Jamestown Road to Limekiln Avenue

26 City Centre (Pearse Street) to Palmerstown (Cherry Orchard)


32X McAllister's Garage - Seabury - Malahide to Belfield



44B To / From Glencullen
45 City Centre (Eden Quay) to Bray
45A Dun Laoghaire (DART Station) to Ballywaltrim
46A City Centre (Parnell Square West) to Dun Laoghaire
49 City Centre (Eden Quay) to The Square
49A City Centre (Eden Quay) to Belgard Road
51B City Centre (Aston Quay) to Grange Castle Business Park
51C City Centre (Aston Quay) to Grange Castle Business Park
59 Dún Laoghaire (Crofton Road) to Killiney (Mackintosh Park)
63 City Centre (Mountjoy Square) to Kilternan
65 City Centre (Eden Quay) to Blessington/Ballymore
65B City Centre (Eden Quay) to Citywest
66 City Centre (Pearse Street) to Maynooth
67 City Centre (Pearse Street) to Celbridge
67A City Centre (Pearse Street) to Maynooth
70 City Centre (Hawkins St.) to Dunboyne
70A City Centre (Hawkins St.) to Dunboyne
79 City Centre (Aston Quay) to Ballyfermot (Spiddal Park)
79A From Aston Quay to Park West
84 City Centre (Eden Quay) to Newcastle (Co. Wicklow)

92 Heuston Station - St. Stephen's Green

123 Drimnagh Road to Griffith Avenue (Marino)

145 City Centre (Mountjoy Square) to Kilmacanogue
150 City Centre (Fleet Street) to Rossmore
151 Docklands Station to Grangecastle
161 Rockbrook to Nutgrove Shopping Centre
201 Citywest (Kingswood Avenue) to Bohernabreena
202 Citywest (Kingswood Avenue) to Kilnamanagh
746 Dún Laoghaire to Dublin Airport

KC61

The 161 has not been operated by a low-floor bus in a year - it is now RV operated. The official list has never been updated!

Chillwithcian

enterprise wrote:

Route Destination
16 - Low Floor.
16A - Low Floor.

Nope, very rarley! (I use them every 2nd day)

enterprise

I stand corrected on the 16's. Every time I've seen one lately its been a low floor bus!

Victor

enterprise wrote:

I stand corrected on the 16's. Every time I've seen one lately its been a low floor bus!

Same here.

KC61

enterprise wrote:

I stand corrected on the 16's. Every time I've seen one lately its been a low floor bus!

Indeed not Enterprise - as a daily 16 user I can say that perhaps 1 in 4 is low floor, the rest Olympians!

shltter

KC61 wrote:

The 161 has not been operated by a low-floor bus in a year - it is now RV operated. The official list has never been updated!

OK but the point of the post was to show that the list of low floor routes the spaces are the Northside only routes removed as can be seen the suggestion that 90% of low floor routes are on the Northside is pure nonsense.

delta_bravo

The 150 is not always low floor. There seems to have been a recent degradation of service since january and some old double deckers have been put on the route which arent low floor