Same route - different timetables

Banjoxed

Now here's a curious anamoly. It may not be a big thing in the overall scheme of things, but points up the apparent lack of integration between the railway and publically owned buses, or does it?

If you look up Bus Éireann's Route 111 from Dublin to Granard and Cavan on their website, the following timetable comes up.

http://www.buseireann.ie/pdf/1307702393-111.pdf

According to that timetable, the only BÉ route that integrates with M3 Parkway railway station, built at no little expense to "complement" that infamous outdoor relief scheme, the M3, only serves the station once each way from Monday to Friday. A bus from Delvin connects southbound at M3 Parkway at 0800 and no other appears to, from Monday to Friday. A return bus to Delvin connects at M3 Parkway according to the timetable at 1830 Monday to Friday, and seemingly no other does, because if you read the timetable in the normal way all other buses appear not to serve the station.

On the other hand, if you use the much vaunted a-b.ie, a different story appears. Have a look at the link below.

http://journeyplanner.transportforireland.ie/nta/TTB/EFA02__000043d3_TP.pdf

In this case nearly every bus does connect at the station. Bit peculiar.

To stretch an old Dire Straits lyric to breaking point, "Two men say they're Jesus, one of them must be wrong"

corktina

or both....

foggy_lad

The a-b.ie journey planner is taking walking distance into account as all the services drive past the station but only a few actually drive into the car park according to that Bus Eireann timetable, but they have been wrong before and are wrong with a lot of the current timetables.

The bus eireann journey planner shows a bus every half hour at the station!

http://journeyplanner.buseireann.ie/jp/bin/stboard.exe/en?ld=std&currentCSS=theme_be&input=8010009&boardType=dep&time=09:00&productsFilter=0&selectDate=period&start=yes&dateBegin=22-03-2014&dateEnd=28-06-2014&dirInput=&maxJourneys=50&viewMode=DETAILED&