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Dubin Bus No. 46A

  • 25-08-2011 8:38pm
    #1
    crazypanda
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    I don't know much about the 46A but I gather it's a fairly busy route. Dublin bus website says it's about every 8 minutes, anyone know if this is accurate information? Also going on their timing guidelines I reckon would take about half an hour to get from north circular road to stephen's green area, realistic timing?

    Thanks for any info.


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  • #2
    KD345
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭KD345


    crazypanda wrote: »
    I don't know much about the 46A but I gather it's a fairly busy route. Dublin bus website says it's about every 8 minutes, anyone know if this is accurate information? Also going on their timing guidelines I reckon would take about half an hour to get from north circular road to stephen's green area, realistic timing?

    Thanks for any info.

    Yes, the 46A is one of the most frequent routes in Dublin. It really depends on the time of day you're traveling. Between 20 and 30 minutes would be an average journey time.


  • #3
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,280 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    crazypanda wrote: »
    I don't know much about the 46A but I gather it's a fairly busy route. Dublin bus website says it's about every 8 minutes, anyone know if this is accurate information? Also going on their timing guidelines I reckon would take about half an hour to get from north circular road to stephen's green area, realistic timing?

    Thanks for any info.

    Yes to all - however Phibsboro can be rather slow in the morning peak when the schools return.

    Where are you talking about on the NCR? It's a long road!


  • #4
    crazypanda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭crazypanda


    Thanks guys. Sorry should have been more clear, I don't know the area that well. Near to where the Old Cabra Road meets the NCR. Would be travelling between 8-9am so busy time, would I have to leave more than 30 mins for that journey then?


  • #5
    KC8
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16 ✭KC8


    Quicker and just as frequent option would be to take 39/A/70 via the quays


  • #6
    crazypanda
    Closed Accounts Posts: 68 ✭✭crazypanda


    Thank you, those do seem to be quicker!


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  • #7
    CIE
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    Would it have been better to call the 46A the 10 instead...? (That would have raised expectations of running via Baggot Street and Waterloo Road, yes. I hate the hanging alpha suffix though.)


  • #8
    honru
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    CIE wrote: »
    Would it have been better to call the 46A the 10 instead...? (That would have raised expectations of running via Baggot Street and Waterloo Road, yes. I hate the hanging alpha suffix though.)

    I don't think so but if the 46E was changed to some other number they could drop the "A" and just call the route 46.


  • #9
    CIE
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    f®eak s©enery wrote: »
    I don't think so but if the 46E was changed to some other number they could drop the "A" and just call the route 46.
    I always wondered why the 46A didn't become the 46 a long time ago...even the old route 46 between the city and Rochestown Roundabout/Shankill was a rather low-frequency route going back many years (back in 1983 there were only 15 trips going in each direction during the weekdays at sporadic frequencies of close to two-hour gaps off-peak, with about half of them serving Corbawn Lane; they could have been absorbed into the then-far-more-frequent route 86 and its 24 trips each way, even if the 86 would then have had to run Sunday service).

    The 46E is a very odd one. It's like the old route 6A but turned inside-out and very low-frequency. Would there be a market for a permanent bus service between Blackrock and the city centre serving Carysfort Avenue via the Stillorgan Road, with maybe half-hour frequencies?


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