Nitelinks this Sunday?

Tusky

Is there a nitelink service this Sunday because of the bank holiday ?

Tipsy Mac

I would think it would operate on a Friday timetable but I am not 100% sure, I know even the Saturday services have been cut down alot recently with the lack of people heading out.

Nevyn

There hasn't been the last few years.

Mimikyu

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dearg lady

Captain Morgan wrote: »

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Unfortunately very few people use the nitelink these days (compared to a few years ago my nitelink is very empty) and Dublin Bus are under massive pressure form the government to cut costs. It's a pity tho

Creamy Goodness

fewer use them because they provide a ****e service imo.

i've stopped using them because they run busses at terrible times on my route. i mean they have one a 00:00 02:00 and 4:00 and that's it.

i use a local bus service that leaves at 01:00 and 3:00 and they are much better. it's still 5euro, but the bus driver is nice, he takes notes, stops the bus before he gets back to bray, wakes everyone up and tells them not to miss their stop and luckily for me drops me within 30 seconds of my home, and everyone has a great time.

i'd rather give these lads the money than to be on a ****elink that takes over an hour to get to bray and goes the most god awful way to bray (down through sandymount etc.) and almost always there's a fight.

godtabh

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

fewer use them because they provide a ****e service imo.

Its a great service. If you live on a route and a stop out side of dublin it is a fantastic service. You dont have to pay €40 for a taxi

Some people will never be happy

honru

Dublin Bus used to run on a Monday-Thursday Nitelink service on Bank Holiday Sundays but haven't retained this since the Nitelinks cutbacks.

L1011

f®eak s©enery wrote: »

Dublin Bus used to run on a Monday-Thursday Nitelink service on Bank Holiday Sundays but haven't retained this since the Nitelinks cutbacks.

They're still providing a Monday-Thursday service on Bank Holiday Sundays arguably - none!

KC61

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

fewer use them because they provide a ****e service imo.

i've stopped using them because they run busses at terrible times on my route. i mean they have one a 00:00 02:00 and 4:00 and that's it.

i use a local bus service that leaves at 01:00 and 3:00 and they are much better. it's still 5euro, but the bus driver is nice, he takes notes, stops the bus before he gets back to bray, wakes everyone up and tells them not to miss their stop and luckily for me drops me within 30 seconds of my home, and everyone has a great time.

i'd rather give these lads the money than to be on a ****elink that takes over an hour to get to bray and goes the most god awful way to bray (down through sandymount etc.) and almost always there's a fight.

The 84N goes via Sandymount because that was the only route Dublin Bus were allowed take by the Department of Transport licensing section. The times are such so that they do not compete with Finnegans.

As for fights breaking out - that is hardly the fault of Dublin Bus??????

loyatemu

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

i'd rather give these lads the money than to be on a ****elink that takes over an hour to get to bray and goes the most god awful way to bray (down through sandymount etc.) and almost always there's a fight.

I've taken the 84N on a number of occasions and it has always had me back in Greystones within 45 minutes, I don't know where you're getting an hour to Bray from. Plus you can use your commuter pass on it, so effectively (for me) its free.

The finnegans bus by contrast takes at least 90 mins to get to Greystones, mostly because it's dropping all the Bray punters practically to their front doors on the way.

(apologies for off-topic rambling...)

AlekSmart

I use a local bus service that leaves at 01:00 and 3:00 and they are much better. it's still 5euro, but the bus driver is nice, he takes notes, stops the bus before he gets back to bray, wakes everyone up and tells them not to miss their stop and luckily for me drops me within 30 seconds of my home, and everyone has a great time.

There`s SO much Creamy Goodness in this post i`m licking my lips already...MMmmmmm

Perhaps the most important point is that large sections of the Customer Base are incapable of making a bus journey without requiring a staff member to "wake them up" before getting to their destination :P

I reckon the Finnegan driver is more concerned at emptying his Bus and not having to deal with some comastose noddy when he (The Driver) should be going home himself....

As for the routing of the 84N it was the subject of much deliberation and horse trading before Bus Atha Cliath finally recieved a Temporary Licence to operate it one Christmas period several years ago (2003 ?)

Essentially the Department was terrified that if Finnegan could demostrtate the 84N was competing with his service then IT (The Dept) would be liable to compensate Finnegan.

The 84 N compromise routing is actually quite OK,for those living along or adjacent to Ringsend,Sandymount,Strand Road and particularly Deansgrange/Clonkeen Road.

In the initial stages many 84N drivers DID go into Bray, even if only as far as Sunnybank,however objections from the sitting tenant swiftly eliminated that little bit of Customer Service.

It should also be remembered that after the initial successful Christmas operation,Bus Atha Cliath were required to cease 84N operations at VERY short notice as the temporary licence had expired and the Dept were undecided as to what to do.
(That particular night represented a particularly low-point in Departmental attitudes to its remit,with passengers abandoned on the roadside with a Bus and Driver ready to go)

One simply alteration to the 84N which would make it somewhat more efficient would be to start it from outside the Screen Cinema FACING Ringsend.
This would eliminate the somewhat circuitous circling presently required...but would also probably cause the Department of Transport to explode !