john boye wrote: » What I don't get is how they're allowed operate buses with only one company logo on the whole vehicle?
Stephen15 wrote: » Nothing illegal or not allowed about it. Only requirement is legal lettering operators name and address in small print.
john boye wrote: » Fair enough, I didn't realise that. It does look a little amateurish though (on the offside especially). And I say that as someone who is in no way anti-tendering/GAI. Thinking about it I wonder if the one logo format is the official layout and DB will have to adhere to it as well if they start using the NTA livery.
Stephen15 wrote: » The orginal plan was for the branding to be in a generic font decided by the NTA in English and Irish with the operators name. Think plain packaging cigarette packets. They then changed this to allow operators use their logos. I'm not sure why they changed it but it wouldn't surprise me if it was to get DB on board with the idea of a common livery. I think the idea is to create it's a TFI/NTA bus first and foremost and it's a GAI or DB bus secondily. Worse though I have noticed a good few GAI buses with TFI logos missing wither at the front or the back. I have seen pictures of the buses for BE in Waterford and the BE logo looks awful on the TFI livery as it has a big white box around it.
john boye wrote: » Yeah it doesn't look great but the green BE logo and the red setter probably wouldn't look great against the blue either.
Stephen15 wrote: » Agreed what should have been done is just have the BE logo including the red setter in white like the way the Go-Ahead appears in all white without colour.
devnull wrote: » BE preferred to have their logo in full colour and what you see is the result.
Qrt wrote: » Is there any photographs of this?
thomasj wrote: » New 33/a and 33b timetables have now been published. pdf download linkshttps://www.transportforireland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TFI-Go-Ahead-Route-3333a-Timetable-December-2018.pdfhttps://www.transportforireland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TFI-Go-Ahead-Route-33b-Timetable-December-2018.pdf I wonder will Dublin bus put the 33/a timetable on the website or their own version? Just to add theres a 00:30hrs 33A from Dublin Airport, monday to saturday. Nice for some!
Losty Dublin wrote: » Go Ahead timetables don't appear on the Dublin Bus website.
thomasj wrote: » Just to add theres a 00:30hrs 33A from Dublin Airport, monday to saturday. Nice for some!
thomasj wrote: » But it's not a go ahead timetable ? It's an NTA timetable that combines the 33 and 33A departures.
devnull wrote: » The 33a doesn't go to the airport at all currently, so this is a massive improvement for many people who will get a new bus service to Dublin Airport that currently do not have a Dublin Bus service to the airport.
BonnieSituation wrote: » A couple of times over the last few weeks I've seen 2 of the GAI training buses out in Islandbridge on the Chapelizod/Conyngham Roads. Is it general training or anything to do with the 76?
Yer Da sells Avon wrote: » Red double deckers with L plates? Training buses en route to Finglas, probably.
BonnieSituation wrote: » Just the navy and the red single deckers
abitofacomedian wrote: » Looking at the proposed timetable for the 17a, it actually looks like a reduction in service at peak hours.https://www.transportforireland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/TFI-Go-Ahead-Route-17a-Timetable-December-2018.pdf For example, at the moment there is a bus at 07:35, 07:45, 07:55, 08:05 and 08:15 from Kilbarrack. The new timetable shows "Every 15mins" over the same period.
TheQuietFella wrote: » These guys at the NTA know what there doing!
thomasj wrote: » Probably got it mixed up with the 17!
punisher5112 wrote: » No they have ex UK double decks also, 2003 wrapped gai and red 2003 and 2006 singles.
Yer Da sells Avon wrote: » Those (and the red double-deckers) are just for learners. Any bus used for route-learning is in the standard blue/yellow NTA livery.
Stephen15 wrote: » Will never understand why the 17a is numbered 17a when it has no connection with the 17 in fact the two routes serve completely different areas of the city.
