BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

Excellent thank you. Trying to plan a few Christmas meet ups from Celbridge with family from Kill and Newcastle. Looks like Rathcoole could suit us all😃.

I must test out changing to the 126 southbound for an afternoon in Naas.

No problem :) Rathcoole is a nice spot, some great pubs for a get-together just hasn't been the easiest to get to public transport wise.

W6 makes it a bit easier to get to and from there.

As much as it adds on time to the whole route, I think that's very necessary especially when running for a train. Makes the interchange way more tolerable!

Is there not a pedestrian entrance on the road that would be no more of a walk to the platform than from the bust stops in the car park?

This surely can't be the final route though as it's not a loop? If someone is trying to go from North Circular Road to the Children's Hospital for example, this route would be pointless.

I'm the biggest O cynic out there, and as LXF says, this is not a problem as the missing bit from the plans literally can not be driven in an omnibus at the moment so they are measuring running times for scheduling.

If the Steevens Lane / Sean Heuston bridge is unavailable there are some other solutions

Running the O down the SCR to islandbridge and down Coynyngham road will alllow a very near link to NCH when the hospital eventually opens and will leave Heuston punters with a bit of a walk up to the Coynyngham road bus garage - but Islandbridge and Kilmainham are both single lane and hideously crowded all day long in both directions , for a very high frequency service.

Good idea. I wonder how many votes the Soc Dems will lose over this.

Oppossing a bus route where there is enough local outrage is generally more positive for the candidate than not.

I don't think transferring is going to impact as many people as claimed on the 11, but…no one, not the NTA or whoever, can answer why someone who had a direct bus connection to Stephens Green or whatever, now has to change at Parnell. And candidates know this.

They need to add additional E buses for the south side of the route even if they terminate at montjoy sq, call it E9 or whatever. Spacing isn't going to make a difference, the spacings are pure theory anyway.

They could extend the 19 to Merrion sq and introduce the O at the same time and that would mean an improvement on all fronts.

As it stands the E spine is a downgrade for many(possible most) users.

Positive for the candidate, yes. Not positive for the Soc Dems in the other areas of Dublin that have been shafted by the decision to push the 24hr E spine into next year.

Overall, its a heavy vote loser for the Soc Dems in Dublin, as evidenced by the petitions to overturn the decision.

There is very little social democracy in making a nimby decision, which serves to the detriment of the wider Dublin community.