Something like google transit available for Dublin?

sprinklesspanky

Hi All,

I'd like to be able to plan a journey from any given starting point to any other location in the Dublin area using public transportation, or any combination of public transportation. For example I'd like to be able to plot a starting location in Swords and a ending location in Donnybrook and have the whole route planned out for me using Dart and Dublin Bus including the walking distance between bus lines.

Google's transit page does this for many cities across the globe, but not Dublin.

I'd like to start using the Dublin public transport system to it's full potential... plan trips to places other than the city centre and I am getting tired of taxi drivers quickly.

Does anyone know of a tool like this?

dowlingm

Have you tried the Dublin Transportation Office journey planner?

Google Transit is actually pretty open to any city who wants to add themselves, as long as they provide the relevant data at their cost.

That last bit tends to trip up the more shortsighted municipal governments (hello, Toronto Transit Commission who were asked to do this three years ago but promise their own trip planner will be along Real Soon Now!)

sprinklesspanky

Hi dowlingm, thanks for the link. Not to come off snarky but I played with that journey planner app and it was useless. *sigh*.

I think I am going to email Noel Dempsey and ask him why the whole country couldn't be on google transit.

Thoie

I think you're making an assumption that there is public transport that will get you between Swords and Donnybrook...

Blackjack

You could try
http://justroutes.com/

I find it to be reasonably good, although have not used it properly in a long time.

icdg

dowlingm wrote: »

Have you tried the Dublin Transportation Office journey planner?

Google Transit is actually pretty open to any city who wants to add themselves, as long as they provide the relevant data at their cost.

That last bit tends to trip up the more shortsighted municipal governments (hello, Toronto Transit Commission who were asked to do this three years ago but promise their own trip planner will be along Real Soon Now!)

The problem is that the municipal government in Dublin (Dublin City Council) have absolutely no responsiblity for transport other than road traffic management (ie, cars) while the DTO has, despite its name, no real responsiblity for transport in Dublin either (it can make all the plans it wants, but it can tell none of the providers what to do).

Responsiblity for transport in Dublin is shared between Dublin City Council, CIÉ, the RPA, and the various private operators none of whom talk to each other (and the subsidaries of CIÉ don't appear to, either). The DTA would have solved this had it been set up, but it now appears to be on hold while they figure out what to do with the Commission for Taxi Regulation, which the government annouced during the Budget will be amalgamated with the DTA. Doing this however will change the DTA into something else entirely (as the CTR has NATIONAL responsiblity) and if followed through to its logicial conclusion will make the DTA essentially CIÉ Mark II.