Nitelink Schedule Christmas 2011

Last Angry Man

Any idea if Dublin Bus are putting on extra Nitelinks for December? Nothing on thier site. Thanks.

Victor

I imagine something for the period 10-25 December and New Years Eve, but even at that it might be limited.

LXFlyer

From the Dublinbusnews twitter page (in response to a query):

The Christmas Nitelink service will begin on December 16th.

patrickmooney

Useless. Come Dec. 16th most of the Christmas Parties will be over. Mine start this Wednesday. I'm either going to leave early for the last DART or stay in town. Cheaper then a taxi. I wish we had a proper public transport system, especially at Christmas.

howiya

patrickmooney wrote: »

Useless. Come Dec. 16th most of the Christmas Parties will be over. Mine start this Wednesday. I'm either going to leave early for the last DART or stay in town. Cheaper then a taxi. I wish we had a proper public transport system, especially at Christmas.

i wish we had the money for a proper public transport system...

interesting that you will get the DART home but rely on Dublin Bus to provide nightlinks

AlekSmart

howiya wrote: »

I wish we had the money for a proper public transport system...

Interesting that you will get the DART home but rely on Dublin Bus to provide nightlinks

I would be confident that if Bus Atha Cliath introduced an hourly bi-directional service in both directions on the main QBC corridors at a €2.30 Flat Fare it would swiftly encourage a new ridership.

Routes such as the 4,7,13,14,15,25,27,40,41,66,145, could easily be utilized and backed up by Nitelink Express at weekends or events.

The resources are there,staffing and IR issues long ago put to bed but no real desire to develop and move forward from the two-decade old Nitelink concept......ash well..sure is'nt it alright...:o

n97 mini

OP, email Dublin Bus. They're quite good a responding, usually within 2 days, although the news about Nitelinks is always the same, i.e. little or no extra services.

BenShermin

howiya wrote: »

interesting that you will get the DART home but rely on Dublin Bus to provide nightlinks

hmm, I got the tube into London last night for a party and relied on the London night bus service to get back to the b&b, doesn't make sense to run heavy rail in the wee hours!

Got back to the b&b for the pricely sum of £1.30 at 2am btw.

AlekSmart

BenShermin wrote: »

hmm, I got the tube into London last night for a party and relied on the London night bus service to get back to the b&b, doesn't make sense to run heavy rail in the wee hours!

Got back to the b&b for the pricely sum of £1.30 at 2am btw.

A big +1 for the TfL NightBus network....fantastic integral part of London as a Capital City...mind you,they do pay rates,water charges and council tax over there too.....;)

howiya

BenShermin wrote: »

hmm, I got the tube into London last night for a party and relied on the London night bus service to get back to the b&b, doesn't make sense to run heavy rail in the wee hours!

Got back to the b&b for the pricely sum of £1.30 at 2am btw.

These are regular services though. My point is that people including the post I responded too seem to expect dublin bus to put on extra services to get them home when other transport operators shut up shop.

I'm just back from London myself and used their public transport system frequently during my stay. It is financed better than our equivalent. You get what you pay for

BenShermin

AlekSmart wrote: »

...mind you,they do pay rates,water charges and council tax over there too.....;)

They also have less taxi plates than Dublin I do believe;).

starviewadams

Luas website says that only the Green Line will have late night trams in the run up to Christmas and on December 31st.

Wonder why no Red Line services?

Mr Simpson

starviewadams wrote: »

Luas website says that only the Green Line will have late night trams in the run up to Christmas and on December 31st.

Wonder why no Red Line services?

Not being smart but, do you really need to ask? It's bad enough during the day!!!!

AlekSmart

starviewadams wrote: »

Luas website says that only the Green Line will have late night trams in the run up to Christmas and on December 31st.

Wonder why no Red Line services?

An interesting omission for sure and,if true,it opens a Pandoras Box in relation to the contractual obligations of the operator ?

However,it therefore seems that the RPA have finally accepted that they have lost-control of the Red Line and that the savages now dictate the level of service to be provided....

bk

The stormtroopers on the DART seem to have no problems keeping control of the savages at night. Surely with so few night luas there could be two or three security guys and maybe even a uniformed garda on each tram.

schemingbohemia

AlekSmart wrote: »

An interesting omission for sure and,if true,it opens a Pandoras Box in relation to the contractual obligations of the operator ?

However,it therefore seems that the RPA have finally accepted that they have lost-control of the Red Line and that the savages now dictate the level of service to be provided....

I would presume that specific late-night services are outside of their contractual obligations and are merely put on because they feel there is a market for it on the green line and that it's more hassle than it's worth on the red?

starviewadams

Have used the late night Red line Luas at Christmas a few times over the last few years and have never seen a problem on it(From Red Cow-Jervis anyways,there was usually those massive robocop security guards on them too.

I think that it's a bit unfair that the green line gets a late night service and the red line does not.

ax586

Christmas Nitelink Service
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Friday 16th December 2011
A full Nitelink service will operate.

Saturday 17th December 2011
A full Nitelink service will operate.

Sunday 18th December 2011
Nitelink Services will not operate.

Monday 19th to Friday 23rd December 2011
A full Nitelink service will operate.

Christmas Eve, Saturday 24th December 2011
Nitelink Services will not operate.

Christmas Day, Sunday 25th December 2011
Nitelink Services will not operate.

St. Stephen’s Day, Monday 26th December 2011
Nitelink Services will not operate.

Tuesday 27th to Thursday 29th December 2011
Nitelink Services will not operate.

Friday 30th December 2011
A full Nitelink service will operate.

New Years Eve, Saturday 31st December 2011
A full Nitelink service will operate.

New Years Day, Sunday 1st January 2012
Nitelink Services will not operate.


Customers can also get updates on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @dublinbusnews ;or call our customer service line on (01) 8734222, lines open from 08:30 - 18:00hrs(Monday to Saturday excluding bank holidays).
 

dixierip

There was always a Nitelink Service faciltitating the commuter belt during the Christmas season.

Having always used it for returning home from Christmas Parties, it was always close to full. It surprises me that there is little or no service this Christmas. I guess for most it will be an early finish to the festivities this year.
Bah Hum bug.

dublinman1990

ax586 wrote: »

New Years Eve, Saturday 31st December 2011
A full Nitelink service will operate.

 

I heard there is a New Year's Eve Concert in College Green on the night. How will that affect the Nitelink's going out of town?

http://www.dublinnye.ie/

starviewadams

Is the 51N nitelink still in operation?

I was in town on Saturday night and the conductor/inspector said he wasn't sure,and to just get the 69N instead,unfortunately the 69N didn't follow the actual 69 route(left at Tesco in Clondalkin Village)and instead went down by The Mill Centre,which meant I had an unexpected 40 min walk home at 4am in the freezing cold.

Very annoying!

icdg

As far as I can see there are actually only four extra days of Nitelink services this year - Monday 19th, Tuesday 20th, Wednesday 21st, and Thursday 22nd. (In fact its only three extra days, since there's no Nitelink on Christmas Eve which falls on a Saturday this year).

On all the other days listed above - which are Fridays and Saturdays - Nitelink would normally be operating anyway.

Reflects the times we live in, I guess.

L1011

The one day I'll want one (22nd) has one, thankfully... I don't see how they wouldn't turn a profit for most of December even if they just ran core routes, realistically.

KD345

starviewadams wrote: »

Is the 51N nitelink still in operation?

I was in town on Saturday night and the conductor/inspector said he wasn't sure,and to just get the 69N instead,unfortunately the 69N didn't follow the actual 69 route(left at Tesco in Clondalkin Village)and instead went down by The Mill Centre,which meant I had an unexpected 40 min walk home at 4am in the freezing cold.

Very annoying!

The 51N was cancelled in March and replaced by revised routes 25N and 69N.

25n From Westmoreland Street Towards Adamstown
Thomas Street, James’s Street, Inchicore, Sarsfield Road, Ballyfermot Road, Neilstown Road, Lucan Newlands Road, Castle Road, Griffeen Road, Esker Road, Newcastle Road (Adamstown)

Pick Up Point: Thomas Street (Francis Street), The Penny Hill Pub Lucan


69n From Westmoreland Street Towards Saggart
Thomas Street, James Street, Bluebell, Naas Road, Monastery Road, Woodford Walk, Watery Lane, Clondalkin Village, Fonthill Road South, Nangor Road, Peamount, Newcastle, Rathcoole, Saggart

Pick Up Points: Point Thomas Street, Clondalkin Village

Victor

MYOB wrote: »

The one day I'll want one (22nd) has one, thankfully... I don't see how they wouldn't turn a profit for most of December even if they just ran core routes, realistically.

Between fewer people going out and the number of taxis, there isn't enough business.

dublinman1990

There are going to be Diversions around for the Dublin NYE Festival on New Year's Day. That may include the concert in College Green. Bus services will run up to last bus until 10pm on that night.

The arrangements are listed here.

http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/News-Centre/Travel-News/Christmas-and-New-Year-Arrangements1/

n97 mini

Victor wrote: »

Between fewer people going out and the number of taxis, there isn't enough business.

I very much doubt there isn't enough business to run Nitelinks to outer suburbia. Some sample night taxi fares from the city centre to places served by Nitelink:
Malahide: €29
Balbriggan: €59
Clonee: €28
Leixlip: €29
Maynooth: €44
Celbridge: €36
Rathcoole: €30
Stepaside: €25
Bray: €48

A lot more people from those areas would go out if they weren't going to get rode on the way home.

L1011

Victor wrote: »

Between fewer people going out and the number of taxis, there isn't enough business.

I'd disagree heavily with that. DB didn't try to run routes effectively. Rather than trimming they cut *all* midweek ones, for instance.

Taxi fares have increased, at that - although I recently had a taxi driver make an offer of off-meter (he ran the meter anyway for regulatory reasons, though) when I got in...

AlekSmart

MYOB wrote: »

I'd disagree heavily with that. DB didn't try to run routes effectively. Rather than trimming they cut *all* midweek ones, for instance.

Taxi fares have increased, at that - although I recently had a taxi driver make an offer of off-meter (he ran the meter anyway for regulatory reasons, though) when I got in...

Absolutely correct,the provision of a comprehensive Night Bus service is a nice little earner waiting to be tapped into.

We in Dublin Bus simply held onto the NiteLink concept for far too long until it withered and died.

Our core Trunk Routes are now more than capable of operating bi-directionally on an hourly schedule at a flat-fare,made even easier now with Leap Card enabled.

I've no idea why we persist with this outdated NiteLink stand-alone concept...NiteLInk should be seen as an adjunct to the full mainline service....any takers for a €2.30 Flat after midnight fare on the main routes and a special Nitelink Express fare on the Express service (Operating as now,Limited Stop and uni-directional)

schemingbohemia

icdg wrote: »

As far as I can see there are actually only four extra days of Nitelink services this year - Monday 19th, Tuesday 20th, Wednesday 21st, and Thursday 22nd. (In fact its only three extra days, since there's no Nitelink on Christmas Eve which falls on a Saturday this year).

On all the other days listed above - which are Fridays and Saturdays - Nitelink would normally be operating anyway.

Reflects the times we live in, I guess.

I didn't think Nitelink ever operated on Christmas Eve? An awful lot of city centre pubs close early that night anyway.

L1011

schemingbohemia wrote: »

I didn't think Nitelink ever operated on Christmas Eve? An awful lot of city centre pubs close early that night anyway.

I think that was part of his point, they're not running one on the Saturday so it means there's less "added" services when you take the not-running otherwise normal day.

loyatemu

n97 mini wrote: »

I very much doubt there isn't enough business to run Nitelinks to outer suburbia. Some sample night taxi fares from the city centre to places served by Nitelink:
Malahide: €29
Balbriggan: €59
Clonee: €28
Leixlip: €29
Maynooth: €44
Celbridge: €36
Rathcoole: €30
Stepaside: €25
Bray: €48

A lot more people from those areas would go out if they weren't going to get rode on the way home.

you can add Greystones: €60 to that list (though you can usually haggle a lower price).