Bus curtailments in Tallaght

Halloween comes early

I rang Tallaght Garda station one night in need of a Garda and was told there was only one car and it was dealing with a road traffic incident, and it had somewhere else to go after that before it could come to me. This is in Tallaght - with a population of 80,000 people.

I assume the 54A is included in this but I haven't seen it mentioned anywhere

Why isn't the 175 affected that takes a similar routing to the DB routes diverted. Do GAI not want to not notify customers they are diverted or do GAI disregard the health and safety of its drivers and passengers.

I live about a 1000 yards from the garda station as the crow flies.

Regularly while I sit in traffic with my fellow commuters I witness lads on scramblers/quad bikes tearing through red lights, down the wrong side of the old bawn road.

All a couple of hundred yards from the station, not a guard to be seen. But drive the n81 and you regularly see traffic stops 20 squad cars deep across both sides of the road.

They've plenty of guards to do the work they want them to do.

In before the usual "hApPeNs In EvErY CiTy" nonsense. No it does not. Place is an absolute kip.

What parents? In Jobstown, 60% of families are single parent families. 50% male unempoyment etc. Its a toilet.

The DB curtailments are driver action, not company action. I've no idea if GAI drivers are taking the same action. Don't fool yourself into thinking DB are doing the honorable thing here and the other company isn't.

I am a resident of the Jobstown area and a regular user of the 27 bus.

In the last few weeks the level of incidents on the bus has skyrocketed, from theft, yelling and disorderly conduct.

All of this was caused by a group of teenagers of about 8 people between the ages of 14-20. They were always the same.

It was something that was seen coming, nothing ever happens to them, sometimes the driver stopped the bus and called the garda, but little else.

It is a pity that for such a small group we have to affect all the neighbors. But I fully support the drivers, there should be 0 tolerance to anti-social behavior.

I also believe that the problem is not solved by enforcing the law only, you have to make initiatives in the community.

For example.

If there are young people who like to race motorcycles, encourage local competitions and the creation of racing teams.

If there are young people who like to fight, make boxing competitions.

In jobstown there is a giant jobstown park, why not make local events for young people?

Although I don't justify it, many of those teenagers don't do evil because they want to be criminals, it's because they don't know any other way to focus their energy and fun. Sometimes the family environment doesn't help either.

I think that the solution to these problems is a work between the city council, local associations and neighbors in the area.

GAI drivers should be doing the same after all GAI drivers are represented by SIPTU and NBRU same as DB.

So many acronyms in this thread , after 12 years in Australia I really feel like I’m living in a different country to the one I left, what the hell is GAI???

Jesus Christ, who are the NBRU & GAI, I know who’s siptu is, but a google search doesn’t find me about others

There's no places to legally ride motorcycles and NIMBYS won't allow it. There's is/was a lot of waste ground around the affected areas and none of the lads on scramblers every went near it to race. They rather doing wheelies up the middle of the road.

I know of several combat clubs in the area and they are willing to accept anyone. These people don't want to train they want to intimidate people

See what happened to the bike rental stations they installed, broke within a few hours. We can't have nice stuff until we sort out the scumbags

Dismissing them as "scumbags" won't "sort out the scumbags". Bored kids mostly, the majority of whom will grow out of it.