Dublin Bus route 40 having a rough time at the moment

thomasj

I see on the Dublin bus twitter account that the 40 is not serving ronanstown due to antisocial behavior. Its ironic that the bus cannot serve ronanstown garda station.

Last night (and a couple of times over the last few weeks) it wasn't unable to serve parts of finglas. Its happening a bit too often at the moment.

Is there anything that can be done or is it a case that Dublin bus has to ride the storm with these curtailments and hope it goes away.

Slunk

Used to happen a lot that it wouldn't go through finglas south. Sometimes they would send an unmarked garda car behind it but can't be done for every service. Just have to bypass the area

SimonQuinlank

thomasj wrote: »

I see on the Dublin bus twitter account that the 40 is not serving ronanstown due to antisocial behavior. Its ironic that the bus cannot serve ronanstown garda station.

Last night (and a couple of times over the last few weeks) it wasn't unable to serve parts of finglas. Its happening a bit too often at the moment.

Is there anything that can be done or is it a case that Dublin bus has to ride the storm with these curtailments and hope it goes away.

It's not as if there's Gardai standing outside the station 24/7 in fairness.There's fields surrounding the area that objects can be pretty handily lobbed at buses from without beeing seen.

Curtailments,and sometimes community meetings generally do the trick.Things usually get a bit hairy for a bit when the evenings start to get dark earlier and in the lead up to halloween.

thomasj

So there was diversions at both ends

http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/DublinBus-Mobile/News/?depth=1&srcid=3623

Dublin Bus wishes to advise customers that due to anti-social behaviour route 40 will not serve Neilstown shops,Ronanstown Garda station or first stop on Fonthill road.  Buses will use Irishtown road . In effect on Oct. 15th. from 1930 to last bus.
Route 40 is also operating via St. Helenas /Farnham Drive to Wellmount and onto Cardiffsbridge road from 220hrs to last bus in both directions.
Dublin Bus apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Customers can also get updates on Facebook, 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).

dfx-

The 13 wasn't serving Bawnogue either

ax586

dfx- wrote: »

The 13 wasn't serving Bawnogue either

I seen the 13 go through bawnogue last night

dublinstevie

Aw scum

thomasj

Buses pulled from finglas again tonight

Dublin Bus wishes to advise customers that due to Anti Social behaviour in the Cappagh Rd area, that route 40 will be unable to serve the Finglas West area for the remainder of the evening.
Route 40 will operate via Mellows Rd and The Main Rd in both directions.

Its unfair for those who have to walk to the nearest stop in the weather conditions tonight but that's not on the mind of those causing the trouble.

http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/DublinBus-Mobile/News/?depth=1&srcid=3618

thomasj

Again tonight 40 pulled from finglas west

http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/News-Centre/General-News/Central-Control-4/

Journeyman_1

This always happens at this time of year. Kids get access to bangers/fireworks and it's deemed too dangerous to go through some of those areas. It must be very annoying for people who live there.