It looks like the road joining the city end and school end is not complete. I suppose they could have left it is is - no lights and going to the city means coming out the Phoenix Park side and going to Ashtown junction.
When the road is complete residents that drive can choose the route that works best for them.
I know it's off topic but the W4 bus route starts this Sunday .
Running from Blanchardstown Centre via Liffey valley and grange castle to the square in Tallaght .
Will run from 5am-11.30pm monday-saturday and 7am-11.30pm Sundays , buses will run half hourly generally except weekday at peak hours it will run every 15.minutes and early weekend and late hours will run hourly .
How long will the full journey take?
About an hour, depending on the time of day.
Where can I find the bus stops on the W4 route? Seems very difficult to find by Googling!
They are now listed on the TFI Live app.
The route maps are in the link posted four posts up, as are summary timetables.
Thanks. The map doesn't show all the stops and the timetable suggest there are only 4!
We got a thick TFI booklet about the new routes through the door the other day. I'll check it in the morning.
Booklet
I thought there was a stop on the Navan Road for the W4? Looks like it goes straight from Blanch SC to LV SC.
There are currently no bus stops inbound from Blanch SC to the M50 for the Bus to stop.
I believe as part of the redo of the N3 when goes ahead in the next 20 years will have a stop just before the Hospital turn off.
I saw the below W4 times on the TFI app from the other Bus Connects thread so assumed there was a Navan Road stop. Maybe I misunderstood and it was reference to another route?
That's the return journey Outbound from M50 to Blanch, there is a stop on the N3. Many buses stop here.
Directly opposite that on the N3 inbound I believe is where there is a future stop planned.
Here's stop 7389: https://goo.gl/maps/5eiUPTATzUh5MbKr8
Does that mean there's a stop there outbound but not inbound at the moment? Seems a bit odd!
There is already an N3 stop inbound near the bridge to the hospital (e.g. used on the 39) but because of the M50 junction 6 layout you can't access this stop and also immediately turn south onto the M50 as the roundabout no longer has an exit to M50-Southbound. To make that movement you need to go straight through the roundabout and turn back again at either River Road or the Parkway Station bridge, with either routing adding many minutes to the trip during the day. I can see why not doing either and just having no inbound bus stop at the hospital may have been necessary/preferred, but it does make bussing from Connolly Hospital to Liffey Valley direction into a complicated mess.
Stop 7374 ( https://goo.gl/maps/vVUCMHtDRtzuBamL8 )
Been trying to find any kind of launch date for the N8 route (Blanchardstown to the Airport) and can't find anything, am I just no looking in the right places or is it so far out there's no estimate?
No estimate, other towards the end of the rollout (which was supposed to be in late 2024 but could stretch into 2025).
It will all depend upon the ability of the bus companies to hire and retain sufficient drivers.
More importantly, will the N8 be Dublin Bus or Go Ahead?
No idea as yet.
A mess indeed. If someone wants to go from Liffey Valley to Blanchardstown Village, you can get off in there but would have to make your way to Blanch SC to get back! Makes it kind of pointless having a stop in one direction and not the other. Not many people take one-way trips.
Yes, but it's mostly a relic from the fact that stop was generally only used be BÉ services in the past, until DB started to run buses down the dual carriageway to the Snugborough Rd exit. While there are plans for a new stop interchange system at the Mill Road bridge, that's part of the bus corridor works and likely to be a while out yet.
The mill road bridge changes will be the part of Bus connects that will make the biggest difference for thousands of people in the area. So many people in waterville, corduff and blanc village have frequent bus routes going within 10 minutes walk but cannot use them for lack of stops.
They are absolutely vital for all in the village, Roselawn and Clonsilla Road areas that will either walk to Mill Road or use the local service that will replace the 39.
The replacement 37 will run from Blanchardstown centre to the city via clonsilla road , blanchardstown village, castleknock and black horse avenue running every 20 minutes all day
And the plan issued before was that from there the radial routes from this direction (numbers thirty-something from Carpenterstown, Corduff and Rathborne) will head across the north inner city and then down Gardiner Street to Merrion Square/Burlington Road. This is neither the B spine route of Stoneybatter and the quays (current 37, 39) nor Parnell Sq/OCS (current 38), so likely won't have improved corridor speeds but might allow for a switch onto an actual B spine bus at a short stretch of the Navan Road.
https://www.pleanala.ie/en-ie/case/313892
Blanchardstown Bus Connects Corridor has been approved by An Bord Pleanala.
Haven't read it yet to see if there are changes.
Does anyone know what the actual status of the Blanchardstown Bus Connects is now with the recent objection by the petrol station in Cabra. My understanding is that permission was granted and it was full steam ahead. Still no sign of the airport bus yet which may be dependent on upcomng Bus Connects infrastructure.
The Blanchardstown CBC is subject to a judicial review in the courts.
Nothing can happen now until the courts conclude that process.
The N8 won’t happen until towards the very end of the network implementation as it was a late addition (likely now towards the end of 2026) - and will need additional buses and drivers to implement it.
