New Dublin Buses?

carlmango11

Feel free to close if this has been covered elsewhere but has anyone else seen new style Dublin Bus buses around town?

Saw two yesterday. One was a green hybrid but I only got a glimpse of it. Then I saw a fancy-looking number 9 with glass running down along the stairs.

Can't find anything on the DB site or here... Am I going mad?

GLaDOS

Saw the 9 myself, my girlfriend was in one and said the interior was completely different. No ads or anything on the side, possibly a trial?

LXFlyer

These are two demonstration vehicles, one on the 9 and one on the 151.

In the meantime, deliveries of 70 new vehicles are continuing, in the normal livery.

Davy

These?

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057229301

carlmango11

lxflyer wrote: »

In the meantime, deliveries of 80 new vehicles are continuing, in the normal livery.

As in, 80 of the new type in the ordinary colours?

Alun

I think I saw one of those on the 7 route today in normal DB livery. The thing that caught my eye were "inverted eyebrow" shaped LED DRL's.

LXFlyer

carlmango11 wrote: »

As in, 80 of the new type in the ordinary colours?

Alun wrote: »

I think I saw one of those on the 7 route today in normal DB livery. The thing that caught my eye were "inverted eyebrow" shaped LED DRL's.

There are 70 "SG" Class buses currently on delivery in standard Dublin Bus livery, initially in Donnybrook and Phibsboro, on routes 7, 7b, 7d, 8 and 37.


The two demonstrators are two different types of vehicles, with the one on the 151 being a hybrid. The one on the 9 is a standard demonstrator model of the model now being delivered.

AlekSmart

lxflyer wrote: »

These are two demonstration vehicles, one on the 9 and one on the 151.

In the meantime, deliveries of 80 new vehicles are continuing, in the normal livery.

The White Demo ends it's stay this Friday 17th and will return to it's UK homeland soon after....;)

Csalem

Demonstrator/DM 1:
DM 1 O'Connell Street 20/06/14 by Csalem's Lot, on Flickr

Demonstrator/DM 2:
Second time lucky? DM2 Amiens Street 12/07/14 by Csalem's Lot, on Flickr

And two of the new 70 SG class:
SG 12 O'Connell Street 14/10/14 by Csalem's Lot, on Flickr

January

I saw a 142 (not sure what model) DB on route 38A the other day.

monument

If the hybrid is reasonablely economical and notably less noisy and cleaner it really should be rolled out across the network.

I've lived near the city centre right beside a road with many bus routes and I've also lived in a central location away from main roads -- the people living on the on the former suffer noise and air polution in a major way and buses account larger percentage than they should.

This isn't the way it has to be -- a reduction in noise alone can have a large positive effect (and yes, I know buses used to be worse, I had to suffer an odd older bus which I think was at some stage taken out of service before I moved).

BowWow

January wrote: »

I saw a 142 (not sure what model) DB on route 38A the other day.

It was in Sutton today. No route number, just "out of service"

LXFlyer

BowWow wrote: »

It was in Sutton today. No route number, just "out of service"

Well there are 70 being delivered. It could be any of them.

Birneybau

Found the seats on the new 9 very uncomfortable and it all seems more cramped height wise, windows seem smaller.

hfallada

Does Dublin Bus do the typical Irish state body end of year trick of blowing the last of the budget, in the last few months? To ensure they get the same funding next year. They only appear to buy large amounts of new buses at the end of the year, never at the start. Like most of big 46a buses arrived suddenly one October.

Why doesnt Dublin Bus use single decker long buses like in cities such as Munich? They hold far more people and are more like a tram than a bus. They hold a ton of people standing. They would probably help with social issues on the problem routes(although the behaviour on Dublin buses has improved greatly in the last several years)

LXFlyer

The NTA are funding the buses, not Dublin Bus.

Deliveries are dictated by when manufacturers can deliver them. Bizarrely enough bus companies have to order them significantly in advance - it's not a case of sending an order off in June.

Dublin Bus got 80 buses last year too.

Ordering articulated buses is only practical if you have the infrastructure in place to use them safely - that's what the BRT is planned to do.

punisher5112

hfallada wrote: »

Does Dublin Bus do the typical Irish state body end of year trick of blowing the last of the budget, in the last few months? To ensure they get the same funding next year. They only appear to buy large amounts of new buses at the end of the year, never at the start. Like most of big 46a buses arrived suddenly one October.

Why doesnt Dublin Bus use single decker long buses like in cities such as Munich? They hold far more people and are more like a tram than a bus. They hold a ton of people standing. They would probably help with social issues on the problem routes(although the behaviour on Dublin buses has improved greatly in the last several years)

Streets are too small and they had single decker bendy style and were constantly in crashes and breaking down.

If we had proper roads and driver trainning of other vehicle users it could be done but everybody hates buses and cut them up all the time.