Dublin Bus Route 102 & 230 amalgmation

Jonathan

See Dublin Bus notice here here.
Timetable.

I miss my 8.05 Seabury 102

Victor

Well thats a half-baked changeover. It would have made sense to put in a time for Malahide Train Station.

I presume it is taking the 102 route between the Yellow Walls School and Estuary Road, which is a loss of service for the residents of Yellow Walls Road and Seabury as they will ahve to go to the Malahide-Swords Road to get to the airport now. Might have been nice to serve Portmarknock station as well.

KC61

Victor wrote: »

Well thats a half-baked changeover. It would have made sense to put in a time for Malahide Train Station.

I presume it is taking the 102 route between the Yellow Walls School and Estuary Road, which is a loss of service for the residents of Yellow Walls Road and Seabury as they will ahve to go to the Malahide-Swords Road to get to the airport now. Might have been nice to serve Portmarknock station as well.

I would not assume that at all Victor, in that I think it will take the 230 route, i.e. via Yellow Walls Road and Seabury in both directions. This is a core market for the 102. What it is doing after that I am unsure given the website note re "Kinsealy".

I assume the reason for keeping the Seabury times is to give some form of guide to those that use the route as a DART feeder ex-Seabury.

Jonathan

So does that mean that if bus makes it from Dublin Airport / Sutton Station early, will it stop and wait in Seabury until its departure time or are they rough guides? :rolleyes:

KC61

jmccrohan wrote: »

So does that mean that if bus makes it from Dublin Airport / Sutton Station early, will it stop and wait in Seabury until its departure time or are they rough guides? :rolleyes:

Like all other intermediate times, they are rough guides. Dublin Bus doesn't do fixed intermediate times.

KC61

The exact routing is as follows:

Sutton DART Station, via old route 102 to Malahide DART Station, then via Yellow Walls Road, Estuary Road, Malahide-Swords Road, and then after crossing the M1, the bus turns left and continues to the roundabout at the entrance to Holywell Estate where the bus turns around and returns to the Malahide-Swords Road before then following the routing of the old route 230 to Dublin Airport.

To add, route 102 (like the 90, 111, and 114) is a DART Feeder services and through tickets may be bought on board the bus to any DART Station and vice versa.

The single fare from Dublin Airport to Greystones, for example is EUR 3.90.

Jonathan

Got the 7.50 Bus from Seabury this morning... What a mess!!

Arrived at 7.55, and was full of kids from Kinsealy and Swords going to Portmarnock C.S.
Standing until village and then had to wade my way through about 50-60 more Portmarnock kids that had just gotten off the Commuter train from Donabate etc. These would previously have gotten the 230. I didn't wait to see did they all fit or were they left behind as it was 8.04 when we got to the station, a bit too close to the 8.08 Dart departure time for my liking.

If they were, the next bus was not departing Seabury till 8.20

Previously I would have made the 7.57 Commuter 4 out of 5 times a week.
Now I am doing well to make the 8.08 Dart :mad:

moyne

Yeah, the new times don't seem to make much sense, they've just made it more awkward to get a train in the morning. I thought the whole point of a feeder bus was to make the trains more accessible.. This route seems to be going backwards.

KC61

It sounds like they could do with a few short workings at 0740 and 0805 ex-Seabury to Malahide Station.