BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

Where do they claim to be a 'licensed service?'

Anyway, the question is moot because the service they are offering is free. If they were collecting fares, they would need an omnibus licence or permit.

The final 50 minutes of the 46A. Still wondering why Dublin Bus haven't put an AX at least once on the 46A, not showing on Bus Times.

Relax. You'll have a bus route thats named after a Female hormone running in the morning.

Some photos from the final bus

It goes by RTE and some well to do areas. Don't understand the fuss myself either.

Watching Dublin Bus and other bus services being the workhorse during the storms really enforced the need for corridors and improvements.

When the Luas and Dart can't operate or if there's an issue, it's the buses they point people too, and I think that needs to be used more when people protest against bus improvements because they just want rail.

I was on one of those Dublin in the Rare Auld Times nostalgia groups on Facebook where everything built or created after 1960 is ugly and evil and everything beforehand was perfect (including being nostalgic about tenement living!) and when someone criticised the retiring of the 46A, they said they'd still call it 46A no matter what (followed by hundreds of likes from others). I kind of knowingly stirred it asked how would that would work when using the journey planner app to search for the 46A ? Of course my question was scorned with the few of them that actually knew what an app was lambasting how technology has ruined everything.

If you want to get a sense of the type of people who object to and resist every advancement to public transport and Bus Connects change, take a visit to one of these groups (often having 100K+ members). Ironically I'm a member of a few of these groups too as I love old photos and history of Dublin as it was (but not with rose tinted glasses) but I also recognise and champion progress and necessary change too.

All the opposition seems to be from cringe nostalgia groups harping on about a bus number, mostly south aiders who will have the new 24hr E spine sandwiched between the Dart and Luas, while the north side section of the 46a is about to be heavily downgraded but nobody cares, least of all the NTA, the most classist of quangos

A paywalled article has been published by Connor Feehan of the Irish Independent about the shortage of mechanics that is holding up BusConnects.

I'm not sure if contains any new information about addressing this shortage in mechanics either now or in the future as we now have a new minister for transport appointed by the Taoiseach this week.

I have linked the article to allow you to read it.

You did, at 10:13 p.m. last night. Post #14371…..

Feeling ok today?

Anyone taken the E1 or E2 yet? Which vehicles are being used on the routes?