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Dublin Bus - Is it a 114 or 145? How Confusing!!!

  • 20-01-2012 11:11pm
    #1
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,633 ✭✭✭


    Was anybody on the 114 bus tonight leaving Blackrock @ 7.10pm? Now, I wasn't on the bus tonight, however, my mum was on it.

    She said to me that the frontal DMD number display should have said 114, Ticknock Hill. Instead, that number was jammed on one route saying 145, Kilmacanogue. The bus display had that number jammed on the way into Blackrock DART Station.

    Not only that, my mum had said to me that the bus driver was apparently shouting to intending passengers saying, 'This is the 114, not the 145'.

    There was about a maximum of ten people on the bus, which was a double decker.

    He'll probably say that for the rest of the night or until his bus gets changed.

    He was still doing a shift on it until 9pm tonight finishing at Ticknock.

    Quite Unusual, Do you think?


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


    Mechanical faults can happen. The option here was to keep the bus on the road and collect passengers, or miss this journey and leave your mother and other passengers stranded while waiting for the replacement bus. The 114 and 145 don't share any stops so the confusion would have been minimal.

    This bus was probably replaced on it's return journey.


  • #3
    coylemj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,620 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    KD345 wrote: »
    Mechanical faults can happen. The option here was to keep the bus on the road and collect passengers, or miss this journey and leave your mother and other passengers stranded while waiting for the replacement bus. The 114 and 145 don't share any stops so the confusion would have been minimal.

    This bus was probably replaced on it's return journey.

    +1 sounds like the driver used his noggin, well done to him.

    OP, can't see the point you're making, it was a mechanical failure and appears to have been dealt with in an intelligent manner. Were you thinking the driver should have done something different?


  • #4
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Driver going that little bit extra and getting people home, fair play to him using his initiative and shouting out at the stops as some drivers and many other people would feel this a step too far beyond their duties., should he have parked up and waited for a replacement bus?


  • #5
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    mechanical fault? They don't still have roller blinds do they????:eek:

    I thought they were all LEDs nowadays.


  • #6
    KD345
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,180 ✭✭✭KD345


    corktina wrote: »
    mechanical fault? They don't still have roller blinds do they????:eek:

    I thought they were all LEDs nowadays.

    The OP already stated it was a dot matrix display. Faults can occur on any vehicle.


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  • #7
    AlekSmart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,005 ✭✭✭✭AlekSmart


    corktina wrote: »
    mechanical fault? They don't still have roller blinds do they????:eek:

    I thought they were all LEDs nowadays.

    Nope the DMD's would be clased as electro-mechanical,as the flip-dots which comprise the matrix are mechanically operated.

    I'd reckon the pedantic-semanticometer overloaded and tripped the thermocoupler....its a regular occurence at Blackrock (Dublin that is,not Cork) :eek:


    Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

    Charles Mackay (1812-1889)



  • #8
    corktina
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,733 ✭✭✭✭corktina


    KD345 wrote: »
    The OP already stated it was a dot matrix display. Faults can occur on any vehicle.

    no he didnt he said DMD....i'm not physic!..I was only interestedd to learn.


  • #9
    V_Moth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,423 ✭✭✭V_Moth


    dublinman1990 wrote: »
    Was anybody on the 114 bus tonight leaving Blackrock @ 7.10pm? Now, I wasn't on the bus tonight, however, my mum was on it.

    She said to me that the frontal DMD number display should have said 114, Ticknock Hill. Instead, that number was jammed on one route saying 145, Kilmacanogue. The bus display had that number jammed on the way into Blackrock DART Station.

    Not only that, my mum had said to me that the bus driver was apparently shouting to intending passengers saying, 'This is the 114, not the 145'.

    There was about a maximum of ten people on the bus, which was a double decker.

    He'll probably say that for the rest of the night or until his bus gets changed.

    He was still doing a shift on it until 9pm tonight finishing at Ticknock.

    Quite Unusual, Do you think?

    Dublin Bus operating faulty vehicles? Not really. The best was the 84 at the end of November 2010 with a broken suspension. Seats and other stuff flying about on the top deck.

    Gave out stink to the driver who said he couldn't get a replacement.


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