How are you meant to board Dublin Bus?

ronano

A stupid question perhapss but humour me, I take the 123 and there's usually a queue of 20 on O'Connell street. If I have a rambler can I just skip the queue and get on the left cars swipe side.

KD345

ronano wrote: »

A stupid question perhapss but humour me, I take the 123 and there's usually a queue of 20 on O'Connell street. If I have a rambler can I just skip the queue and get on the left cars swipe side.

Cash paying passengers board to the left and prepaid/smart card ticket holders board to the right. Prepaid ticket holders can board ahead of those paying cash if there is a queue.

honru

I feel that the standard procedure is that, on embarking a bus, two queues are formulated: one for cash-paying/travel pass passengers on the left and pre-paid tickets on the right.

I used to get the 123 regularly when the service was mostly single decker and this was more of a contentious issue. If the bus wasn't packed to the brim, I had no problem skipping the queue, in the view that, I've pre-paid for my ticket, so I will enter on the right. The dwell times back then for the O'Connell Street stop were ridiculous.

AngryLips

Fortunately, there's no such thing as queuing in this country. It's more democratic; those who want to get on first push to the front and those that aren't that bothered hang loose at the back - everyone's a winner.