New Dublin Bus Route 53A

StreetLight

From Dublin Bus:

Dublin Bus is delighted to announce Route 53a, which will be added to our network from Monday, 8 July 2019.

Route 53a will operate Monday to Friday between Talbot Street and Sheriff Street Upper, serving Gardiner Street, Summerhill, Portland Row, Seville Place, Sheriff Street Upper, Castleforbes Road, North Wall Quay and East Wall Road.

http://www.dublinbus.ie/News-Centre/General-News/Introducing-Route-53a-from-Talbot-Street-to-Sheriff-Street-Upper/

http://www.dublinbus.ie/Your-Journey1/Timetables/All-Timetables/531/

http://www.dublinbus.ie/Global/53a%20Talbot%20street%20towards%20Sheriff%20street.pdf

Stephen15

This seems up there with the 221 as the most pointless DB ever conceived. Is there any demand on this route not currently fulfilled by the 53, 151 or the Luas.

StreetLight

Well, the 151 only handily serves the Point and Docklands Station in one direction, so I suppose it's something.

Jamie2k9

Catering for the unemployed inner city folk with that schedule

Meanwhile DB and NTA delaying 24hr routes for this crap.

Stephen15

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

Catering for the unemployed inner city folk with that schedule

Meanwhile DB and NTA delaying 24hr routes for this crap.

To be fair it will probably only require 1 bus but 1 bus that could be better used elsewhere.

Jamie2k9

Stephen15 wrote: »

To be fair it will probably only require 1 bus but 1 bus that could be better used elsewhere.

Indeed capacity isn't the problem. Stinks of parish pump politics unless DB have a compelling business case that we don't know about.

Stephen15

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

Indeed capacity isn't the problem. Stinks of parish pump politics unless DB have a compelling business case that we don't know about.

I don't ever remember hearing any calls for this bus route by councillors or TDs. It seems like a ridiculous idea for a new route just like the 221 which was a 3 minute tour of Ballymun and scrapped after 6 months. This route doesn't even worth the ink to print timetables for it never mind fuel, drivers wages etc. I'd say it will a handy duty for whatever driver gets the honours of doing a round on it.

bikeman1

Are they actually having a laugh? That is going to be the most pointless route in the city?

Who comes up with these ideas?

A nice linking route from Ballymun Road / Griffith Avenue, linking across Griffith Avenue, Swords Road, Malahide Road and loop into Fairview and back up the Howth Road, Copeland Rd and return would be brilliant. Instead we get this hair brained nonsense that will carry nobody.

Lord Glentoran

If they restored the 53B as a direct link to and from The Point Luas and Stena/Irish Ferries sailings it would be some use.

Stephen15

Lord Glentoran wrote: »

If they restored the 53B as a direct link to and from The Point Luas and Stena/Irish Ferries sailings it would be some use.

Thought that still ran by Morton's not DB as it's a service contracted by Irish Ferries.

devnull

Looks suspiciously like an attempt to find a driver / bus work between peak hour runs using existing resources.

Won't require any extra buses or drivers in that respect most likely.

Geog1234

Stephen15 wrote: »

Thought that still ran by Morton's not DB as it's a service contracted by Irish Ferries.

Still runs and is now branded Ferrylink. It serves both Terminal 2 (Stena Line) and Terminal 1 (Irish Ferries).

Lord Glentoran

Geog1234 wrote: »

Still runs and is now branded Ferrylink. It serves both Terminal 2 (Stena Line) and Terminal 1 (Irish Ferries).

Let’s have a look..oh yes it’s the weird Morton’s one that connects with Connolly on the way into town, but not on the way out.

Jamie2k9

devnull wrote: »

Looks suspiciously like an attempt to find a driver / bus work between peak hour runs using existing resources.

Won't require any extra buses or drivers in that respect most likely.

That's exactly what it however doesn't really answer the question about the rational behind the route.

Is it PSO service?

loyatemu

This is the most bizarre bus route I've ever seen, what possible rationale is there for running this? Only 5 off-peak services a day, no weekend service. Is it some sort of pensioner special?

john boye

loyatemu wrote: »

This is the most bizarre bus route I've ever seen, what possible rationale is there for running this? Only 5 off-peak services a day, no weekend service. Is it some sort of pensioner special?

I'd say the only pensioner on it will be the driver.

Jamie2k9

Didn't want to start a new topic but saw a 67 with while on black displays instead of usual orange. Presume orange will be phased out?

Stephen15

Jamie2k9 wrote: »

Didn't want to start a new topic but saw a 67 with while on black displays instead of usual orange. Presume orange will be phased out?

They are trailing it on SG471 based in Phibsboro. Weird thing about it is the rear and back displays are the usual orange and only the front is white.

cgcsb

Why bring out these new routes when the network is to be phased out, starting 18 months from now and we've yet to get a solitary 24 hour route.

Stephen15

cgcsb wrote: »

Why bring out these new routes when the network is to be phased out, starting 18 months from now and we've yet to get a solitary 24 hour route.

It won't be as near as 18 months likely be 2023 or 2024 now according to the NTA

Jamie2k9

Stephen15 wrote: »

They are trailing it on one of the SG471 based in Phibsboro. Weird thing about it is the rear and back displays are the usual orange and only the front is white.

Its way clearer but looks a little odd with DB livery but could be me used to been in London.

L1011

Stephen15 wrote: »

They are trailing it on SG471 based in Phibsboro. Weird thing about it is the rear and back displays are the usual orange and only the front is white.

Just went past me - did seem slightly different but probably wouldn't have noticed without the mentions here. Looks slightly more readable

Stephen15

L1011 wrote: »

Looks slightly more readable

More so at night

Stephen15

Boards even gets a mention in this article

https://extra.ie/2019/07/07/news/irish-news/dublin-bus-route-paschal-donohoe

machaseh

Serving that area is actually not a bad idea, but the bus should go much further than Talbot street. How about making it go to Beaumont Hospital and Castletimmon instead and then cutting the 27B loopyloop route so it can go more directly, for example.