Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Dublin Bus route 145 :(
Comments
-
-
-
With average speeds like that, one can perhaps surmise why I haven't been in Dublin for a while...(right?) And FTR, the average speed from Infirmary Road in particular that you're citing is even slower, at 5.5 mph, no better than brisk walking, and eating bicycles' dust.They must go to/from Merrion Square via a route that I would consider to be counter-intuitive then...? Which way do they go there, via Kildare Street, St. Stephen's Green North, Baggot Street and Upper Merrion Street then? or is it outbound via Upper Merrion Street, Ely Place, Hume Street and St. Stephen's Green East/North to Dawson Street? The way I would take is the direct one, i.e. via Nassau Street, South Leinster Street and Clare Street to Merrion Square North, and back out via Clare Street, Lincoln Place and Westland Row to Pearse Street...too many twists and turns to make those routings reliable enough, but with DB, nothing would surprise me.
In some ways, I would envy you, not being in Dublin!
The 25A/B route inbound is Nassau Street, Kildare Street, Merrion Row, Upper Merrion Street to Merrion Square South. Outbound is (wait for it!) Merrion Square South, Fitzwilliam Street, Leeson Street, St. Stephen's Green East and North, Dawson Street, Suffolk Street, Westmoreland Street etc.
The 26 route inbound is Nassau Street, Clare Street, Merrion Street to Merrion Square South. Outbound is Merrion Square South and North, Clare Street, Westland Row, Pearse Street, Westmoreland Street etc.
Make of that what you will!0 -
that's a bloody mess! why are the outbound 25s and 26s doing a circuit of the busiest traffic spot in the city?In some ways, I would envy you, not being in Dublin!
The 25A/B route inbound is Nassau Street, Kildare Street, Merrion Row, Upper Merrion Street to Merrion Square South. Outbound is (wait for it!) Merrion Square South, Fitzwilliam Street, Leeson Street, St. Stephen's Green East and North, Dawson Street, Suffolk Street, Westmoreland Street etc.
The 26 route inbound is Nassau Street, Clare Street, Merrion Street to Merrion Square South. Outbound is Merrion Square South and North, Clare Street, Westland Row, Pearse Street, Westmoreland Street etc.
Make of that what you will!0 -
-
Advertisement
-
Made me reach for the Hedex bottle is what it did for me...In some ways, I would envy you, not being in Dublin!
The 25A/B route inbound is Nassau Street, Kildare Street, Merrion Row, Upper Merrion Street to Merrion Square South. Outbound is (wait for it!) Merrion Square South, Fitzwilliam Street, Leeson Street, St. Stephen's Green East and North, Dawson Street, Suffolk Street, Westmoreland Street etc.
The 26 route inbound is Nassau Street, Clare Street, Merrion Street to Merrion Square South. Outbound is Merrion Square South and North, Clare Street, Westland Row, Pearse Street, Westmoreland Street etc.
Make of that what you will!
But you can certainly imagine the confusion someone who has been out of town for a while will face, especially when you think you know the bus system and radical changes have been afoot. You're looking for the 45 bus to Bray around the quays (Burgh Quay or Eden Quay as in the past; I didn't get to see it leave from Corn Exchange Place of all streets, and that was the closest it got to returning to the old Poolbeg Street terminus), and then are told that you have to hoof it to Merrion Square to catch it, and that nowadays it runs every 45 minutes on the weekday compared to every 10-15 minutes some years ago. Then, your knowledgeable company assistant that you were lucky to have met directs you to catch the 145 as an alternative, which now runs on the quays west of O'Connell Bridge and the bus stop you need is on D'Olier Street. (You vaguely remember hearing or reading about that route 145, and something about running from Parnell Square or Mountjoy Square or one of those squares on the north side. Or wait; wasn't the 145 actually the bus route that ran between Ballywaltrim and Palermo Estate?!?) Just as you head towards the bus stop for that route, you remember that the 84 also goes to Bray and ask where its bus stop is...only to hear that it's all the way down in Belfield instead of College Street, so forget that route as a backup...(BTW, does the 84 still serve Sea Road in Kilcoole?)0 -
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
But you can certainly imagine the confusion someone who has been out of town for a while will face, especially when you think you know the bus system and radical changes have been afoot.
Anyone who has been out of town for a while should look up the bus routes before arriving back in Dublin
I know I certainly do when visiting cities that I haven't been to in a while. 0 -
-
-
Amazing how the crowds at Heuston barrel onto the haphazard 145, when just around the corner on Johns Road, there's the semi-regularity of the 25A, 25B, 26, 78, 79 and 79A.
If you're not a seasoned commuter then you won't be aware at all of the 25s etc.
Also, the service FROM Heuston isn't really an issue (for me at least), it is usually there when we get off the train so I've no problem with that. But regardless of that, our annual rail ticket includes bus but only on the 145, even if you get another bus on the same route your ticket is not valid and so why should we pay twice! Especially when what we've paid for does not deliver the service it should.
In the evenings I have to hop on a 25 or else a 140 to Westmoreland st sometimes if the 145s don't stop on Leeson St, and its really annoying!
I really hope they get something sorted and soon
0 -
tried doing that last weekend.Anyone who has been out of town for a while should look up the bus routes before arriving back in Dublin I know I certainly do when visiting cities that I haven't been to in a while.
Still couldnt figure out what the story was - so walked - and taxied.
Just glad the hotel had free internet. Would have been annoyed to have wasted money looking up unfathomable bus information. :rolleyes:0 -
-
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
-
-
-
-
There may also be extras from Loughlinstown - if I remember correctly that was where they were feeding into the route.
There are certainly still extra buses joining the 145 route either at Loughlinstown or from Little Bray although possibly there are fewer VTs now as some have moved to the 84x morning service. I think it has improved the evening rushhour service from Nassau st: in the last week, I haven't been waiting as long for a bus as previous (no doubt I will head now and be waiting half an hour).
Don't forget this week and next, the schools are off so there is less traffic and less demand on the route as well. For example, the extra VT at7.40 approx. from Loughlinstown wasn't needed this morning.0 -
-
-
-
-
Advertisement
-
Advertisement