The Bus, Do You Get It?

Volvoboy

Whats above, out of the boardsies who of you uses the bus. Got if for my 1st time in about 4 years there last week, ah yes the good auld 27.

Gumbo

i have recently moved office from harolds cross to wood quay so i now get the 140 every morning. its actually grand, i used to drive my bike every morning but now the bus and im in work less stressed (from trying to dodge crazy mofos in their cars trying to hit me) and can now get a good 45 mins of tiesto into me on the journey in

YDMHSSB

hate the bus, rude ignorent drivers, **** routes and never on time. i use the luas for 95% of my public transport and the train now and then. no wonder dublin bus are €9million down, they are a shower of c*nts.

ChewChew

I hate getting buses. partly because they are smelly. mostly because they are cold trains ftw

Captain Darling

CreepingDeath

Volvoboy wrote: »

Whats above, out of the boardsies who of you uses the bus. Got if for my 1st time in about 4 years there last week, ah yes the good auld 27.

The bus is normally full of skangers... but could be worse... in a taxi they'ld be driving.

TestTransmission

No,im not poor

I like getting the bus
I get it to and from work every day, I am not near a luas or train line

I don't see anything wrong with it as long as it's not late at night with scary drunk people

Pj!

Thought this was the punch line to a joke.

Mingey

I wish more people would so it would leave the roads traffic free for me.

jimmycrackcorm

YDMHSSB wrote: »

i use the luas for 95% of my public transport and the train now and then.

How ironic, the Luas isn't practical for 95% of the population.

doonothing

Volvoboy wrote: »

Whats above, out of the boardsies who of you uses the bus. Got if for my 1st time in about 4 years there last week, ah yes the good auld 27.

****ing 27...

Hande hoche!

Not if I can help it prefer to walk or get the train.

Volvoboy

doonothing wrote: »

****ing 27...

Aye! I wont have a bad word said about my beloved 27.

Trinity

Yes even though i have a car i drive in these days to work. Handier. Its been a long time since i got the bus but its grand.

Can get 19/11/13/13a etc but usually wait for a No 4.

New route afaik and newer buses. I havent come across any rude drivers either and they are so much more regular than when i used to get the bus.

SUppose that will all change when they take some of the buses off though

I use them all the time:

3/11/13/13A/16/16A/41/746/78A/79/79A being the most common.

Only ever came across one snotty driver, one of the 78A ones.

Ross_Mahon

I only use buses to get into the city center for shopping or nights out

dfx-

Forky wrote: »

Thought this was the punch line to a joke.

It's inscribed as the publicity capaign for Dublin Bus on the back and side of Double Deckers...

I certainly do use it considerably and I have the Luas a 10 minute walk away. The Luas is colder, more dangerous, slower and a glorified sardine tin. I have no need to drive so I let my Provisional Licence run out without a single lesson to drive.

doonothing

Volvoboy wrote: »

Aye! I wont have a bad word said about my beloved 27.

It's frequent... Not much else going for it!

Who'm I kidding, I wouldn't change it for the world!

Ruu_Old

It is award winning*, on time*, friendly drivers* and gets me to and work from every day*.


* it is not Dublin Bus or Bus Eireann

Kensington

I get it, every day . Why do they always run single deckers at peak times on the 150? Why I ask you?

And I wonder how much they paid someone to come up with that absolutely genious advertising slogan...

ladyella

I'd only need to get the bus the odd time now - I dont mind it all though... apart from when its raining and the windows are all closed and steamy and it gets smelly and hot.... then comes the dirty looks when you try to open one to get a breath of fresh(er) air grrrrrrrrrrrr:mad:

Krieg

I get it to/from work

I don't mind it that much, even though I/anyone could easily rant about bus eireann 'til the cows come home

phenomenon

Be careful about sitting at the back seats on the top deck. I've heard stories of skangers leaving used heroin needles behind them, sticking up from under the cushion. Catching AIDs isn't fun.

HalloweenJack

Get the 145 twice a day when I'm in college.

Very nice on the way in. Double deckers, usually empty when it gets my way and they're usually the new ones so they're really comfy.

It's a pain in the arse to get home. It's full of tards who get off before Foxrock church and could have got the 46A/46C/10. :mad:

Gator

Full of knackers...public transport...tut tut

Alessandra

Yes get buses to different towns(no train service) and not impressed with the bi-annual increases!!

crosstownk

I've a bus stop 20 metres from the house and I use it rarely. Maybe if I'm off to town for the night or if I'm heading to Croker for a game. But I tend to use the car most of the time unless I'm heading out for a session - then the bus gets consideration.

That said I've often intended to get the bus but in sh!t weather I'll usually stick my arm out for a taxi if one comes by. Waiting on the 54A is like watching paint dry..........

chin_grin

I can't believe no-ones' replied with

"Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaahaahah............no."

Too obscure eh?

Well on topic, I do get em. And every day I'm getting that bit closer to going postal as result. Also fuels my misanthropic ways. Grrrrr.

arybvtcw0eolkf

I cycle.

HalloweenJack

chin_grin wrote: »

And every day I'm getting that bit closer to going postal as result. Also fuels my misanthropic ways. Grrrrr.

What bus do you get?

JCDUB

My most loathed form of public transport, I'm convinced it's where every bad ailment in the world originated.

What with the horrible steamed up windows and people sneezing in your ear and little pikies listening to Schecascada on their mobiles at full blast with no earphones, I'd prefer to eat worms than get a bus.

BTW am starting work as a bus-driver next week, wish me luck:D

chin_grin

HalloweenJack wrote: »

What bus do you get?

75. Once in a blue moon, and not the worst I admit (reading another thread in AH), but still full of scummers and the non-sane. Seriously, why do all the ones with the voices in their heads and nervous twitches get on my bus. Of course to say it was my bus would be to imply ownership of said vehicle. Now that's just absurd! (But it's mine...........all mine....)

It really makes me see how socially useless the travelling community actually is. But sorry, that's just a generalisation. Smack on the oul red armband for me!

half pint

Yup the bus is my friend

Seeing as i was to lazy to every learn how to drive (I live in hope of the notion taking me )

So it takes me four buses a day to get to and from work and if I ever want to go "Home" at the weekend it takes me nearly four hours when it would take two and a half to drive

At least I don't suffer from road rage :rolleyes:

rainbow kirby

49, 75, 17 and 46A on a regular basis.

I must be some kind of ****ing masochist, be it the skangers on the Tallaght buses, the non-existence of the 17, and the piercing D4 accents on the 46A.

chin_grin

rainbow kirby wrote: »

49, 75, 17 and 46A on a regular basis.

I must be some kind of ****ing masochist, be it the skangers on the Tallaght buses, the non-existence of the 17, and the piercing D4 accents on the 46A.

That is some mix there Kirby! Remind me not to complain ever again. But a point, would you not just be able to inhale a huge gust of air thus inflating your whole body (maybe fly for a bit) and then spit aforesucked skanger out whereby he'll hit his mates and disappear in a puff of smoke? Hmm?

Soby

67...not quite the 69 but it's almost...

chin_grin

Soby wrote: »

67...not quite the 69 but it's almost...

Would be if you close your eyes and imagine it so. Anythings possible! IMAGINAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATION (sorry)

Holsten

Hell no.

Overpriced and never on time.

Toto Wolfcastle

Nope, it's stupidly expensive. Then ten minute journey from my town to Cork city centre costs about a third of the price of a bus ticket to Galway, or Dublin. (All return tickets.)

I just drive. It's easier. I don't hit traffic in the morning or the afternoon on the way to work and I have free parking if I need to go to town. Why would I bother with the bus?

Be careful about sitting at the back seats on the top deck. I've heard stories of skangers leaving used heroin needles behind them, sticking up from under the cushion. Catching AIDs isn't fun.

Ha strangely enough I always worry about that when I get on the bus. Do people actually do that?

Azureus

used to rely on the 33.. needless to say got the train whenever possible. took forever at the best of times, overprices and NEVER showed up on time

now ive moved and aint near a train line, but can get the swords express coach for two euro (through the port tunnel, 20 mins to town at rush hour as opposed to 90 mins on the 41) and its 20cent cheaper.
Dublin bus are a joke.

I generally walk everywhere. It's always a case that a bus would pass me just as i reach my destination.

BraziliaNZ

you get some serious white thrash on the 27. I used buses as little as possible when i lived in Dublin. Cycling is the way forward. Get on your bikes you lazy polluting gets.

Victor

Do I get it, sure I do. Well, I can choose between the 14, 14a, 15a, 15b, 15e, 15f, 15n, 16, 16a, 17, 18, 19a, 49, 49a, 49x, 49n, 54a, 65, 65b, 65x, 74, 74a, 83, 128, 142 - all within a 10 minute walk.

From this map http://www.mkmap.com/dublin 14a is missing, Nitelinks not listed.

Spook_ie

I always use my taxi, never know when you might get a fare!:)

Spook_ie

Forky wrote: »

Thought this was the punch line to a joke.

Asked the driver of the 27X "Does this bus go to UCD?"

He replied "No, it's not clever enough"

Victor

Victor wrote: »

Do I get it, sure I do. Well, I can choose between the 14, 14a, 15a, 15b, 15e, 15f, 15n, 16, 16a, 17, 18, 19a, 49, 49a, 49x, 49n, 54a, 65, 65b, 65x, 74, 74a, 83, 128, 142 - all within a 10 minute walk.

From this map http://www.mkmap.com/dublin 14a is missing, Nitelinks not listed.

Where on earth do you live? I thought I had a nice range of buses to catch o.o

Victor

bluewolf wrote: »

Where on earth do you live? I thought I had a nice range of buses to catch o.o

Near Rathmines.

Of course, asking the driver for and 83 cent fare got giggles (it was route 83).

Dyr

every day, more or less. The good oul 13 or 13A.:mad:

I dont know how much longer i'll be able to resist the urge to shove that phone playing disturbia at full blast down its knackbag owners' mouth and then knee him in the mouth until it turns off.

and the 4 is awful...seats are designed to f**k yer back up, aisle too narrow..its a nightmare

stovelid

Rarely these days, but it's usually the 69 when I do.