[PR] Dublin Bus - New Route 140

Victor

http://www.dublinbus.ie/news_centre/latest_news.asp?action=view&news_id=740

New Route 140

Dublin Bus is pleased to announce the launch of a new route 140 on the Finglas Quality Bus Corridor from Sunday 10th February 2008.

Route 140 will operate from St. Margaret’s Road to Wilton Terrace via Jamestown Road, Charlestown Avenue Extension, St Margaret’s Road, Finglas Road, Phibsboro, Western Way, Parnell Square, O’Connell Street, D’Olier Street, Kildare Street, St. Stephens Green and Leeson Street.

Route 140 Timetable will be available from Thursday afternoon onwards.

AlekSmart

Dublin City Council have today announced a major upgrade plan for O Connell St to be constructed in conjunction with the Metro....
The upgrade will consist of an extra lane in each direction specifically for new Dublin Bus routes....a reviewing stand is to be incorporated outside number 59 (Dublin Bus Head Office),where the incumbent Chief Executive of the day will review the fleet each day at noon to the accompaniment of a trumpeter playing a salute....
Dublin Bus Press Office say that the Capital has had nothing ceremonial of note since the disappearance of the Blue Hussars and this was righting a major wrong.

Complaints from residents of the Church St/Smithfield/Bolton St areas who were seeking an improved Bus Service have been told to stop whinging and join in the fun by WALKING up Parnell St to Sackville St each day where Tea and Gur Cake will be available outside the DUTC HQ...:) :eek:

markpb

Fighting through the sarcasm, you do have a point. One has to wonder just how many bus routes DB can squeeze along one street before it explodes in a mess of blue and yellow. Why don't they go the whole hog and put in bus bays and rename it to O'Connell Bus Depot?

AlekSmart

Sacarasm !!! Certainly not....There`s little sacastic about reflecting this slightly deviant policy of routing so many Bus Routes along a corridor which within a few months will be a battleground.

It may,of course,in what passes for Dublins Public Transport planning,be a a move by Dublin Bus to accquire a form of squatters rights to the Street so that they can in turn exert pressure on Dublin City Council for realistic alternatives come the BigDig.

However,I believe it also exhibits a reluctance to adopt any form of inventiveness and to perhaps re-adopt the old company motto of "Changing With The City".

Currently the streets to the West and East of O Connell St are virtual Bus Wastelands which with some inventive Bus Priority work could be a valuable extension of the Bus to serve them.

Parnell St/Bolton St/Church St/Constitution Hill/Dominck St/Kings Inn St currently offer scope to route Buses along and the amount of Kerbside space surrounding the Parnell Centre and Cinema`s on Loftus Lane offers scope for layover`s safely away from the gaze of those aesthetically minded folk who cycle around the Grands Boulevards...

Victor

http://www.dublinbus.ie/your_journey/viewer.asp?route=140