BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

I noticed this too recently, seems very strange? BÁC had their timetables in nicely formatted PDFs for years, sure they were always printed off for hospital reception desks and the like. Very odd

I've no skin in the game but I think this might be an approach to accesible documents:

6. Electronic Documents – Voice of Vision Impairment (vvi.ie)

VVI (who members of this forum will be familiar with) have a list of policies and incuded in that in section '6.3A2, Advantages of SAF types Over Other File Types' Lists out a few of their reasons for prefering docx files over pdf, and there was repeated requests for these docx alternatives to be provided multiple times over the course of the Dublin City Transport Plan consultation that DCC and the NTA were alegedly slow to grant.

So this change might be a response to some of the feedback there.

thats a 50% drop in frequency along the NCR with the swap of the 46a for the 11

Also the 46a goes via Berkeley road , what route is the revised 11 supposed to take - its not shown on any of the maps.

Any word yet of an expected implementation date ?

thats a lot of routes to co-ordinate for launch as they all mesh up

Interesting that the 11 says 'Parkgate st' not phoenix park. It's a pet peave of mine that the 46a turns around on Parkgate st and doesn't offer a passenger stop there to serve heuston

Thought the E2 was supposed to be going Charlesland not Ikea

My bad got the two names mixed up in my head

I think it finishes at 6pm or something I seen recently operated by single decker buses.

Most of the road is done by so-called Universal duties (which are duties not assigned to a specific route, but numbered and rostered independently), but with some 145 duties working in both peaks. In particular, some of the inbound trips in the morning go on to work 145s from Heuston.

There are a lot of things that feel very weird in that little reassignment pdf, but what can I say, I'm not the one making decisions. A PVR of 44 on the E1 indicates (at face value) a lap time of 5h52 if counted at f-8, just short of 3h one way. That's a fair bit more than the 155 gets (even accounting for the E1 going to Ballywaltrim, but that's just an extra 10' on top of the Bray terminus routing). Even if we're counting at f-7.5 that's still 5h30, or 2h45 each way. It'll be an interesting timetable for certain, both public and working.