most pointless Dublin Bus route?

loyatemu

http://www.dublinbus.ie/your_journey/viewer.asp?route=86

one departure a day, not even a return journey - how are you supposed to get home again??

enterprise

By your luxury car!

Bogger77

My guess is that this route is covered by the 84 later in the day, this is really a fill-a-gap in timetable bus to get people from Shankhill to Sandyford in the mornings, without being wedged on the Bray-an Lar buses.

loyatemu

the 84 doesn't serve Sandyford, nor do any other buses that go to Shankill. its a long walk from the N11 to Sandyford!

Even if their only going to run one bus a day, the least they can do is provide a return in the evening.

murphaph

I'm laughing here but it's really not that funny when such 'services' are timetabled thus. I've seen a good few routes with only a handful of weekday services but that one takes the biscuit. Surely some other route covers the same ground??

Slice

There are loads of numbered routes by Dublin Bus that maybe only run once or twice a day. They usually serve some specific, though obscure purpose. I'm sure there's one for this route too but I can't imagine what it is.

Victor

I connects with Luas.

SickCert

This bus continues to town via the 46a route, you would think it would pay to advertise this on the site.

Ray777

Until recently, the 86 went from Shankill to the City Centre - One inbound journey in the mornings, two outbound in the afternoon/evening. I travelled on it one evening, a couple of years ago and there were only three passengers for the entire journey (one of them was a hiding ticket inspector). Eventually, I was the only passenger left on the bus. The driver pulled in at Stillorgan, flagged down an 84 and told me to get on it.

They've been cutting the 86 back, bit by bit, for years now. I'm baffled as to why they haven't put it out of its misery, as they did with the (slightly) more profitable routes 8 and 46.

dowlingm

as has been pointed out before, the fact that DB can change routes but not introduce new ones without approval probably has something to do with it.

DB probably use the "route" so they don't "lose" it.

TrickyRicky

possibly the 58X, why does it only go as far as the Woodbrook roundabout and not go the extra mile to Bray Main St? That said it only has 2 or 3 runnings a day, but it does go to the airport.

GerardKeating

Ray777 wrote:

Until recently, the 86 went from Shankill to the City Centre -
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They've been cutting the 86 back, bit by bit, for years now. I'm baffled as to why they haven't put it out of its misery, as they did with the (slightly) more profitable routes 8 and 46.

Some Bus routes are replacement service for closed railway lines, and cannot be terminated.

Zaph

The 86 was never a high-frequency bus route, even going back 20-odd years, but there were a lot more of them than 1 a day. As mentioned, the service has been steadily reduced over the years, but I never realised it got this bad.