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International Road Transport Union bus/coach quiz

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  • #2
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    http://www.iru.org/en_dyk_2009?quiz_id=2#quiz

    Post your score here. (I got two wrong, by underestimating)

    I particularly like their answer to question 5. Very quotable.
    Do I get a Golld star or homework pass?
    You have answered 7 out of 7 questions correctly
    :D:D


  • #3
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,190 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    I think the answer to 4 is a notional figure - assuming that everyone is using a brand new bus now and was using a 1990-standard bus in 1990

    There's a LOT more than 2% of buses from 1990 still on the road in some countries in Europe, particularly the UK (which is full of our cast offs!)

    Its fairly easy to guess that every answer is going to be the most positive one, seeing as who made up the 'quiz'


  • #4
    Iwannahurl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,156 ✭✭✭Iwannahurl


    I didn't know the UK was using our old buses.

    My own perception would have been the other way round. For example, in Galway City, AFAIK, City Direct are using second-hand buses from the UK. They now have at least one (UK-sourced) double-decker bus. I saw it recently in their "temporary" depot.

    I also recall old British Rail carriages on the Galway to Dublin route, only a few years ago.

    My assumption, rattling along the rocky rail to Dublin, was that we got their cast-offs.

    Are they private bus companies in the UK snapping up bargains from the Irish BE bus fleet perhaps?


  • #5
    Princess Consuela Bananahammock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,764 ✭✭✭✭Princess Consuela Bananahammock


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    Do I get a Golld star or homework pass?
    :D:D

    So did I, but then I guessed every one. There was a subtle pattern... :D:D:D

    Everything I don't like is either woke or fascist - possibly both - pick one.



  • #6
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,190 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    I didn't know the UK was using our old buses.

    Dublin Bus vehicles consistently end up serving another 5+ years in the UK after deemed life-expired here. Boris Johnson's "Battle Bus" was an ex-DB Volvo Olympian for instance.

    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    Are they private bus companies in the UK snapping up bargains from the Irish BE bus fleet perhaps?

    And that also some times.

    The BR carriages one is an oddity - the main instance of that is the "Cu na Mara" set, they were never service trains, it was a demo unit that was never sold, and which we got from a scrap merchant. Was only bought because it was very similar to what we already had.


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