Dublin Coach Experience Discussion Thread

The speed on a coach/ bus is calibrated legally but they can be off due to various different things such as tires etc.

A coach I drive tomorrow could be set up to 100 km/h and if I take out the GPS for speed only and use it , it may show me doing 97kmh or 101kmh depending on the bus.

Again could be down to things such as tyre wear and calibration etc.

I've often sat in the car on a road at 100kmh and been over taken by a bus that seems to be moving a fair whack faster but when you crack out the GPS again the car is reading differently on the dash than the GPS. The dash could show 100 when infact you are only doing 95.

All these factors play a part so I wouldn't assume they aren't limited just like that.

road_high wrote: »

I'd say it's extremely hard to recruit in Ireland (especially for a company like DC). A few weeks ago driver on mine was a very well spoken middle class Irish guy which was quite a shock, very much the exception.

They have quiet a few Brits as well

road_high wrote: »

When i got it back from Cork the bus took a very circuitous route in Waterford- turned left after WIT/old Waterford Crystal site and up through older housing estates and by the Super Valu and down into the Quays- does it normally do this? I'd have assumed it would take the normal route into the city via Manor st as that would be much quicker I'd imagine?

Where did they come out one of the narrow streets or over rice bridge to turn back.

Before Christmas one turned over by the station and did a 360 outside the bus station to access the stop blocking the while place up instead of going 300m or so to the roundabout and turning.

road_high wrote: »

Like what? BE already chopped the X7 giving DB a free hand to Kilkenny and the DC route seems to be doing very well now. I would like to see some of the X/4 's serve Kilkenny but appreciate people in Waterford like a direct run up the M9 if possible.

Most route 4 don't use the M9 these days.

They have noticed the level of KK-Waterford traffic and possibly adjusting route 40 to cater and putting newer buses on the route.

Time will tell but I think to little to late...

road_high wrote: »

Wasn't there a 2.00am service from the Airport that went via Kilkenny- is that gone now as well, can't see it on the timetable.

EDIT- Sorry that was JJ Kavannagh I was thinking of!

The 02.30 BE called Kilkenny-Carlow-Airport for a few years. It was dropped when they extended 4 to New Ross to fill in for the cancellation of cross country Waterford-Dublin.

road_high wrote: »

I’m rubbish on Waterford street names but it came down the hill past the Aldi with multi storey car park down a narrow street and right into the Quay and back down to the roundabout and around towards the M9 direction. I really assume that is not the approved route? Maybe there was a crash or something he was avoiding but on everyday route it made absolutely no sense to be trapsing a large coach through residential streets with lots of parked cars.

The Glen into Penrose Lane you mean. W1 and W5 go down there too.

91wx763 wrote: »

And the 1645 off the WIT to Dublin (05 decrepit Setra with mismatched tinted/not tinted windows) has just left at 1641, passengers jogging in the Cork Road to try catch it up in the traffic.

Tinted were original so any get broke they replace with clear.

Seen a few 2004 like that too.

road_high wrote:

I’m rubbish on Waterford street names but it came down the hill past the Aldi with multi storey car park down a narrow street and right into the Quay and back down to the roundabout and around towards the M9 direction. I really assume that is not the approved route? Maybe there was a crash or something he was avoiding but on everyday route it made absolutely no sense to be trapsing a large coach through residential streets with lots of parked cars.

Yeah, they do that to avoid the gridlock on parnell Street at busy times. Lots of the city buses take that route.

LineOfBeauty wrote: »

The drivers are odd, on one long trip to Dublin we had a young guy who looked like a skater absolutely tearing it up the motorway, an old lady behind me was fit to lose her life, shouting loudly (well within earshot of the driver) about how the driver is mad and she's never taking this bus again!

There’s a missed opportunity to quote lines to her from the movie Speed.

There's a bomb on a bus.
Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour,
the bomb is armed.
If it drops below 50, it blows up.
What do you do?
What do you do?

Grab All Association wrote: »

There’s a missed opportunity to quote lines to her from the movie Speed.

There's a bomb on a bus.
Once the bus goes 50 miles an hour,
the bomb is armed.
If it drops below 50, it blows up.
What do you do?
What do you do?

Pop quiz hot shot....

If only they turned the fog lights off everything would be fine...

When are the new coaches arriving?

embraer170 wrote: »

When are the new coaches arriving?

They'll only go on Belfast.

devnull wrote: »

It's no longer licensed for service and hasn't been for a while.

But somehow the setras still are?

embraer170 wrote: »

When are the new coaches arriving?

Some of you post this sort of question assuming that it will sort their problems out, it won't. A partial fleet replacement with new coaches will not solve the underlying issues with DC that have plagued this operator for years.

Their maintenance standards are appalling, coaches do astronomical mileage and unless the inspection and servicing regime is pre-empting failures they will have a high fault rate. This is true of newer vehicles as well as old ones and the fact that newer DC coaches are also to be seen sitting by the roadside bears this out.

Other operators use vehicles as old or older than the DC Setras and do not litter our main roads with defective coaches in the way this crowd do. Aircoach never had the same level of incidents with the very same vehicles which they ran intensively up to their sale.