Bus Éireann Route 55 changes

foggy_lad

http://www.buseireann.ie/news_timetable.php?id=1358&month=Sep

Bus Éireann is pleased to announce enhancements to services on route 55 – Waterford/Limerick. The revised timetable will be effective from Sunday, 15 September and will offer customers

‘Clock face’ timetable daily – all departures from Limerick will be at 25 minutes past the hour; with the exception of the 2050 service, all departures from Waterford will be at 40 minutes past the hour.
Additional Sunday departures – 1225 & 1725 from Limerick; 1240 & 1540 Waterford/Limerick
On Fridays there will be an additional departure from Limerick at 1825.
On Sundays the first departure from Limerick will be at 0925.
On Sundays during college terms the 1540, 1640, 1840 and 2050 departures from Waterford will serve Brookfield, Limerick.
On Fridays during college terms there will be a service departing UL (East Gate) at 1625
Additional stops at Carrick-on-Suir, Clonmel and Monard.
Mooncoin will be served daily in both directions.

Friday, 6th September, 2013

They have added 5 extra stops but no extra time! It is also interesting that they have listed Extra services on Friday from Waterford and Limerick which would previously have been covered by auxiliary buses.

LXFlyer

Each of the extra stops are local ones on the road, and will hardly add that much extra time - this should not be an issue.

Geog1234

A few of the stops are and have been stops for quite some time - it's just this is the first timetable to actually mention them.

An example of this is the stop by the Showgrounds Shopping Centre in Clonmel (Davis Road) where BÉ routes 7 & 55 frequently stop to pick up and set down.

end of the road

seems to be a good demand for services between waterford and limerick yet irish rail can't manage to fill their service and have cut it back to 2 trains a day, maybe if during the good times they brought the line up to a decent speed they could offer a faster service then the bus and extend it to limerick, sure it won't go the university but BE could offer a service from the train station to the various places of interest, imagine that, the 2 sister companies working together for the greater good, oh well, may as well forget it as theirs more chance of me being able to go to the moon.