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Bus Spacing

  • 31-10-2013 5:59pm
    #1
    Fratton Fred
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    Do regular buses (I'm thinking 46a in particular) get held up so their departure is regulated when they reach their terminus, or do they just keep doing a circular route?

    This evening I waited 20 minutes on the stillorgan road for a bus that is supposedly every 8 minutes, but according to RTPI, seven were due in the space of six minutes.


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  • #2
    LXFlyer
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    Which direction were you travelling in and at what time?


  • #3
    Fratton Fred
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    It was about 5:30 heading to DL.


  • #4
    LXFlyer
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    OK - that's easy.

    There are peak time extra buses on the 46A that start from Parnell Square that increase the frequency between 17:00 and 17:40 over the basic frequency, ranging from every 5-10 minutes. They're not listed in the public timetable but are on the full timetable on the NTA journey planner.

    Peak time traffic could have held one or two buses up before that also - hence you could have a lot of buses one after the other.


  • #5
    dfx-
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    Also some held up at Donnybrook garage for driver changes..


  • #6
    coylemj
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    dfx- wrote: »
    Also some held up at Donnybrook garage for driver changes..

    In fairness to DB, even at off-peak times the changeover at Donnybrook is relatively seamless. It's a long time now since I've been on a 46A that stopped at Donnybrook for a driver switch where the new driver wasn't already waiting.

    And I have never seen more than one bus outside Donnybrook church doing a driver change.


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  • #7
    Fratton Fred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,567 ✭✭✭✭Fratton Fred


    lxflyer wrote: »
    OK - that's easy.

    There are peak time extra buses on the 46A that start from Parnell Square that increase the frequency between 17:00 and 17:40 over the basic frequency, ranging from every 5-10 minutes. They're not listed in the public timetable but are on the full timetable on the NTA journey planner.

    Peak time traffic could have held one or two buses up before that also - hence you could have a lot of buses one after the other.

    I can see how two or three end up together and usually they leapfrog each other so there is always room, but I didn't realise there was that big an increase in the number of buses. That explains the seven I guess. Three could have been just entering service.


  • #8
    LXFlyer
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    Fratton Fred wrote: »
    I can see how two or three end up together and usually they leapfrog each other so there is always room, but I didn't realise there was that big an increase in the number of buses. That explains the seven I guess. Three could have been just entering service.

    It's the same in the morning - there are extra inbound duties on the 46a starting at Foxrock Church and Brewery Road.


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