BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

The 19 will leave you within a short walking distance of Northumberland road when it becomes the full terminus in April. Its terminus will be on Merrion square which should be a 5-10 minute walk. For now the occasional peak hour 19 will go to Merrion square.

Tbh, you're probably not that far off walking distance (if you can), but you'd need to connect otherwise.

Or unless the residents of Wadelai Road want a direct connection as they don't do connections :P

The E spine looks to have "approx 1 hour frequency" overnight and into the early hours, when the original timetable showed a 20 min frequency at worst, for all services across the 24 hours.

Is the downgrade to 60+ mins frequency simply down to driver shortage?

The Spine itself is every 30 mins at night. If your heading to Bray or Dun Laoighre past foxrock then it's every hour past there where the E1 & 2 branch off

I wouldn't be surprised if after a while if demand levels are high for the 24hr service that like other routes we see non timetabled short workings at weekend nighttime or an eventual increase in frequency.

As you pointed out just a few posts back, in a network redesign lots of people will lose out on a direct connection.

I think in that context, pointing out (very light heartedly) that some residents absolutley did not want to lose a direct connection to the southside and be told to simply "change at Parnell" and did succeed in getting that changed.

Re: the E2 extension, I don't think it would have made that much of a difference – in the October draft timetables, every E2 went empty to Harristown and came back out empty anyway. They were given 15 minutes each way for that empty run, which I think would be generous even in revenue service (I imagine poor traffic lights would be the only thing to make that Harristown/IKEA section take longer than 7-8' in service). The 19 being extended to Merrion Square is much more of a planning kicker – the terminus handovers will now have to become en-route handovers and the extension will have to be covered with more drivers than what tightening up the turnaround times would otherwise leave us with.

In fact, given the difference in what I expect to be the running time between Harristown and IKEA and the generous empty run times, a good enough scheduler would be able to reallocate the working hours to the Merrion Square extension with very little effect on the overall crew numbers.

7n and 84n covers the Rock Road so they will be around at least until the B spine is introduced next year

Ditto with the 46n and the A spine.

Agree that the 19 from Merrion to the Airport will suit people a fair bit. Not the most optimal route but cheap and you can use the 90 min fare.

Some 19 routes are supposed to start at St Pappins apparently. Are they terminating there too because that could be confusing for people looking to get to the Airport.

Even when the A spine launches, the 46n would surely still be required for the Cabinteely→Carrickmines→Stepaside→Balinteer section. And it will provide extra weekends capacity along the core section of the E-spine on the N11 as well

Oh I agree. If it only went saggart to Newcastle I would say every 20 minutes .

Its a pity the W6 can't go through Clondalkin on the way to Tallaght , would make it easier.