Dublin Bus Leaves Early

Condatis

I usually get the No. 18 bus which leaves Palmerstown at 8.00. This gets me to Drimnagh Road where I pick up a number 56 which is supposed to leave Dolphin's Barn at 8.30.

However on Tuesday and Wednesday the 56 apparently left early. So on Wednesday I was watching the Real Time Display waiting for data on the arrival time of the 56. It didn't appear.

When I rang Dublin Bus I told that the 8.30 bus left Dolphin Barn 5 minutes early – because the bus timed before it had been late! I can't make sense of that.

So I had a 20 minute walk up a rainy Ballymount Road.

LXFlyer

The previous bus is the 0805 56 which presumably did not operate for one reason or another. Sometimes when this happens controllers will move the following bus forward in order to minimise the delays for people waiting on the cancelled bus, but not ususally on routes where the next bus after the second one isn't for almost 3 hours!!!

KD345

Surely this is a bad move by the controller. I would guess anyone who had been waiting for the 8am bus would probably have walked or taken another bus, or else decided to hang on for the 8.30 bus instead. By getting the next bus to leave early just disrupts another batch of passengers.

At least with the RTPI you could tell the bus was not going to arrive. It does have benefits, even if it delivers bad news!

jack presley

This used to always happen for the 16:55 38A when it ran from Hawkins Street. It was always gone by 16:50. The controller used to shrug his shoulders when i asked why it left early but I remember a Primetime episode about Dublin Bus and they were interviewing a former driver and he had an explanation why it was advantageous for the driver to leave early. Apparently it was a quite common thing around that time. I can't remember exactly but it was something like there being a shorter gap between him and the bus in front so he'll have less passengers to pick up so he can have a longer break on the reverse journey.

seanmacc

I used to have an absolute pain in my swiss with the last (23:30) 42 and 43 leaving as much as 10 minutes early on regular basis.

dfx-

To be sure, you could get off the 18 at ex-EP Mooneys and get the 56 across the road, though no RTPI around, it might give a better chance to catch it if it leaves early. The only issue being the 56 can fly up the Crumlin Rd very quickly anyway..

Though you could also be waiting on a phantom 56, like the timetabled 2100 ex-Dolphin's Barn departure that has never run but is still on the RTPI:pac: But the two morning buses I've always found reliable enough.

CIE

DB leaving early? Hmm...nothing's changed in forty years.

Mimikyu

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mikemac

jack presley wrote: »

I remember a Primetime episode about Dublin Bus and they were interviewing a former driver

I remember that show, they refer to passengers as skulls.