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139 Bus Route

  • 04-10-2019 10:54AM
    #1
    PaddyBomb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 954 ✭✭✭


    I'd be looking at getting the first one from Blanch at 7am and getting off at Leixlip.

    Anyone use this every morning? If so, how reliable is it? Wondering if I can trust it be there every morning or should I just use the train instead.


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  • #2
    Polar101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭Polar101


    Much more reliable than Dublin Bus at least. It can get stuck in traffic, but haven't seen any cancelled buses.


  • #3
    Rinimee
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9 ✭Rinimee


    Polar101 wrote: »
    Much more reliable than Dublin Bus at least. It can get stuck in traffic, but haven't seen any cancelled buses.

    Do you mind if I ask: When you say stuck in traffic, how long of a delay do you mean? I’ve tried to get it at Allendale Close toward IT Blanchardstown a couple of mornings recently, but I bottled it and got a different bus after waiting for 20 minutes. Without RTPI it’s impossible to know if or when it’s ever going to come!


  • #4
    Tomrota
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 338 ✭✭Tomrota


    Anyone know if it counts toward the fare cap like every other bus?


  • #5
    Polar101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,188 ✭✭✭Polar101


    Delays - I'd say it can get delayed by 20 minutes.

    The bad spots going towards Naas seem to be:
    - entreing/exiting Blanch centre
    - Maynooth main street
    - Sallins bridge

    and towards Blanch
    - Leixlip village
    - backroad when turning right to the Clonee-Ongar road

    So that's only during busy times. Also I don't usually travel past Maynooth, so I woudn't be an expert on the delays between Maynooth and Naas.

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    Fare cap: 139 trips do not count towards the cap.


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