BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

Part of their contract now, so they don't have any choice.

Looking at Bustimes this is happening a lot. Buses are often stopped on the Ballyboggan Road for 10-20 minutes waiting for a driver. The late afternoon seems to be the worse time. This of course has a knock-on effect in terms of cancellations also. The Ballyboggan Road seems like a very strange place to change drivers. I would have thought Heuston would be a much better place.

Passenger number do seem to be very low but it's not a waste of money. Passenger numbers will remain low with such poor reliability however.

The 16:10 to Clontarf (11903) is running 26 minutes late after waiting on the Ballyboggan Road for 13 minutes. The 16:40 to Clontarf (11562) was at the stop since 17:19 and only just left.

There are certainly other unreliable routes. The 83 also isn't great at the moment, but that's probably more due to the terrible traffic recently.

Why not just change at Broombridge though? It feels more like they're using the Finglas Road/N2

Broombridge could do with a redesign. Private cars can fill it up quite quickly but there should be space there. Or allow Dublin Bus drivers use the Luas car park there

Fair enough, I wouldn't want to be relying on public transport to get around either :)

Inspectors report, orders & direction have now been made available by the looks of it.

Looking at the conditions, there isn't anything out of the ordinary really. These were the only ones that stood out to me really:

How long of a window is there to lodge a JR or is there a time limit?
Also do we know if a JR is lodged, will it be fast tracked through the new planning courts- or are they up and running?

Any word on Phase 6a?

I forgot about the CPO on gardens. This will drag

Came across this on another forum earlier,phase 6A is expected to be 26th January 2025 and F and D spines will be rolled out later on in 2025.

Bonkers that the finglas bus corridor didn't include a bus gate in the middle of Whitworth road. A serious omission, and of course they made a dogs dinner of the main strip of phibsboro which should have been a bus gate instead of a road widening into the footpath.

yes,except the bits that they can't do yet ! which is of course the important bits - top of Steevens lane and left turn over Sean Heuston which I do seem to recall a long time ago people were saying there were clearance issues and I was wondering if there was anything in the rumours.

( can't launch the O at the same time as the E unless you delay the E till the O infrastructure is done and there is no sign of the O infra whatsoever i.e. the LUAS and general traffic signalling changes need to allow buses across sean heuston and up and down Steevens lane ) .

Yet it's still not done, another one of those simple solutions that just never seems to happen