Beef with Dublin Bus

Kurooi

I just want to vent, and call out Dublin Bus a bit too. As usual for any large scale event today, Dublin bus seemingly did nothing to address the added demand. Nothing on about added services.

https://www.dublinbus.ie/news/bray-air-display-2024

Thousands of people coming down to Bray and there is a bus every half an hour that takes 50, and they're usually full up on any given sunny Saturday anyway. I would never dream of taking a family down or even kids there was no space on any bus or dart to fit a buggy.

Is it much to ask, especially given more and more bus lanes and insistence on public transport, but nobody is held responsible when an event turns into hell of a commute and services just fail. Why can't we have just a few buses dedicated to an event plaster on "BRAY" and run direct to and from. Any gig any sports event I can never trust public transport I have to either drive or have a taxi or a friend bail me out with a car.

StreetLight

Your beef is nothing to do with Dublin Bus. They are just a licencee of the National Transport Authority. It's the NTA who have the power to green light extra services. Even if they did give permission to lay on extra services in Bray, Dublin Bus would have to cut departures on other routes as a consequence and suffer fines from the NTA for those missed departures. As it is, Dublin Bus can't even currently maintain a full core service due to a chronic industry-wide shortage of drivers.

Buses and drivers cannot be pulled out of a hat because they simply do not exist.

Allinall

Get the dart. They don’t have to turn around at Bray.

If you had a bus every 10 minutes there would be carnage.

Mrs OBumble

The event-organisers should have had a transport plan in place. This could have involved Dublin Bus - or any other company that wanted to provide a service.

If no company wanted to provide a service (eg because they have no spare staff), then the event license should not have been issued.

z80CPU

But that would incur more expense for the organisers. I'm sure the organizers of the cancelled Sligo Airshow have the same business attitude - it's just business.

magicbastarder

i suspect trying to run a bus service into bray during the air show would be a nightmare with traffic; they'd need to also get the gardai on board for traffic management otherwise they'd end up with a lot of disgruntled customers. at least the DART doesn't suffer from those issues.

Deregos.

Doesn't sound very appetising . . I prefer Beef with black bean sauce.

LXFlyer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122467015#Comment_122467015

So what?

The organisers of concerts at Marlay Park were forced as a condition of their licence to organise additional private buses as the normal service could not cope with those kinds of numbers.