punisher5112 wrote: » Its been mentioned already how would you or many like if say you are a 9-5 working day where tomorrow they say we will let you know the day before the time you start and finish. You can't plan a thing or say you definitely would be around.
Stephen15 wrote: » No its not the routes that are indentified to be working fine will be kept the ones that aren't will be changed or scrapped.
L1011 wrote: » If you work in the service industry, this is a way of life. Being a public transport driver is the service industry. Proper rotas could be done if everyone worked them - they're only poor for spares due to the marked in nonsense CIEs working practices are Victorian through and through, this is just a facet of it. The unions' willingness to shaft newer staff and coddle longer serving ones (across the board in the public sector) doesn't help either.
Bandito909 wrote: » Any idea if the GO AHEAD lads will operate out of existing depots?!
punisher5112 wrote: » So you're saying sure its grand to not know a working day or times??? That's an extremely poor attitude to take towards those doing these jobs. Quite simply if it were to stay as is until ones retirement they would have no staff.
bk wrote: » Further to what dublinman1990 says above, here is an example of the new style bus stop down in Cork: Now this is a single operator sign, with a single route. Note it says "Bus Eireann" and their symbol. Where there are multiple routes it would say something like: 219 220 221 Where there are multiple operators, then the sign would be longer and you would have extra rows, something like: Dublin Bus 7 9 Go Ahead 111 Aircoach 701 702 In fairness the TFI logo is very small on it. You can also see the space for timetables, etc. on the bottom of the above picture.
Stephen15 wrote: » Remember the NTA want to make all current Dublin Bus services completely brand neutral. They could also be looking doing to do the same to all PSO services so BE PSO serving services may also be rebranded to Dublin Regional Services perhaps.
bk wrote: » Perhaps, but then Cork has some non BE local services now, but all the BE stops still say BE.
Stephen15 wrote: » I'm not giving my opinion I'm stating fact because the fact of the matter is that replacing over 7,000 stops isin't cheap. Maybe in a city with a small network like Cork it is easy to bring these things but not in Dublin where there is a growing network of 110 routes with over 7,000 stops. Whenever DB do rebrand they don't pulling up every single pole and replacing it they generally just rebrand in the new colours and new branding rather than pull it up and replace it. I don't know about Cork because I don't live there but I find that DB's stops are generally well kept and up to date. Yes there are some stops which could do with timetables and shelters but stops generally aren't much of issue with regards to DB.
LeinsterDub wrote: » Maybe be putting 2 and 2 together to get 5 but has anyone noticed a massive increase in middle door usage on buses since this tender was lost?
LXFlyer wrote: » Not really - I've certainly noticed that they have been increasingly used over the last year being honest about it. Nothing particularly recent at all.
punisher5112 wrote: » I would put a lot down to pure not use to them and I find lot use and people still pile for front door.
punisher5112 wrote: » Very true from both of you but there are times the bus can't get in or is at a 45° angle or cars parked or stop itself is only small and so on.
VG31 wrote: » There has been some increase in their usage over the last year or so but it's mainly due to the increasing number of new drivers. There's a few drivers on my route that barely used them when they were first introduced and use them regularly now. There's still a lot of drivers who don't use them though.
Stephen15 wrote: » Maybe mangement have made a push towards drivers to use them more often
