Curtailment options.

CIARAN_BOYLE

I travel to work every morning on a cross city bus route.

Roughly one third of the time my bus ends up full rejecting passengers.

6 minutes before my bus an out of service bus leaves the terminus.

I once suggested to a driver why not use that bus. He explained that its needed at a point 5 minutes away from a point on my bus route and there is no option to run a curtailed service other than to city centre.

Is there a sensible reason that busses cannot run a curtailed service? Or is it just institutional laziness.

Cookie_Monster

probably because it'd take twice as long to get where it's actually needed and people won't look at the blinds and realise it's not going to the CC and will bitch wholesale when they're told to get off

liger

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

Is there a sensible reason that busses cannot run a curtailed service? Or is it just institutional laziness.

Everything needs NTA approval these days. Dublin Bus is in a ridiculous situation these days
Half the time it's hands are tied by Nta red tape and when it does things right it gets punished. Look at them taking away 2 million euro from the subsidy because they made a profit one year.

LXFlyer

CIARAN_BOYLE wrote: »

I travel to work every morning on a cross city bus route.

Roughly one third of the time my bus ends up full rejecting passengers.

6 minutes before my bus an out of service bus leaves the terminus.

I once suggested to a driver why not use that bus. He explained that its needed at a point 5 minutes away from a point on my bus route and there is no option to run a curtailed service other than to city centre.

Is there a sensible reason that busses cannot run a curtailed service? Or is it just institutional laziness.

Could you be a bit more specific - what route is this and what does the second bus actually do?

end of the road

liger wrote: »

Look at them taking away 2 million euro from the subsidy because they made a profit one year.

yeah i know, you really couldn't make it up could you?