BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

What kind of issues?

Purely from a pax point of view, they are very nice buses to travel on. If I’m not stressed on timing, I’ll seek one out on my road and get one into town. Lovely and smooth, quiet, loads of legroom.

Hopefully the problems will get resolved. I don’t understand not having standard mirrors. You can’t go much wrong with them!

Is there work under way on electrifying other depots or has that stalled again?

Does anyone know why AX648 has moved to Harristown?

Well it isn't just one bus, it's also AX647, AX646 too. But to me, if Donnybrook gets rid of all their AXs or moves them to another depot, the chances are I won't get one even if it turns out to be true, because if the AXs get allocated to X routes, I barely get on them routes, so you know...

Night-time running times could definitely do with some tweaking as well. Got the 12:30 E1 from Bray on Friday night and despite leaving Ballywaltrim on time, it was already 7 minutes late at Bray Main Street. Was 9 minutes late by the time I got to Stillorgan. And traffic was dead, this was just from picking up and setting down passengers!

It does seem like the 2nd stop is scheduled assuming the bus drives directly to it, but in reality it has to loop around 2 roundabouts to get onto Killarney Road - meaning it can easily be running "late" even after leaving the first stop on time.

Decent loadings though which is good to see, on average 20-25 people on board.

Supposed to be talks on Thursday let's hope the issue is resolved. Could result in a lot more disruption if they vote for a strike.

Bus services across the city have been on a capacity knife edge due to the city's booming population, but this industrial action is going to tip it over the edge if not sorted quickly. Potentially very disruptive situation for the public.

OK - I was looking at BusTimes but I guess they don't have the new timetable loaded yet.

Yes you're right. That's exactly what I was doing.

Did the work to rule by Dublin Bus mechanics & cleaners have any negative effect on people waiting to go on the X routes from Hueston Station to UCD today? The routes around Heuston Station appear to be working well this evening.

Looking at the bus stops on OCS at the Quays around O'Connell Bridge:

All services are running to schedule although with some hiccups in place. Most of the cancellations there are affecting the non BusConnected routes this evening.

On OCS; there's 1 northbound bus cancelled on the 122 from Drimnagh to Ashington & 1 southbound bus cancelled each on the 38a & E1.

There's 1 northbound departure each recorded as cancelled on the 15 & 27a at the stops on Eden Quay.

There's 1 southbound bus cancelled this evening on the 70 to Burlington Road at Batchelors Walk.

BÉ also have 2 cancellations in place for the 133 at the stops along Hawkins St as well. Although there is 1 departure on the 133 bus sandwiched in there that is running to schedule in-between those 2 cancelled buses.

There are no major distruptons in place when I checked the buses around Blackrock & Stillorgan this evening. There are no cancellations recorded so far on the BusConnected routes within those parts of Dublin. The non BusConnected routes like the 7b, 7d & 47 appear to be working well this evening from looking at their own timetables. However there is one departure cancelled on the 7a between Mountjoy Square & Loughlinstown Park later on this evening.

From looking around Bray this evening:

There is 1 GAI bus cancelled on the 45a between Dún Laoghaire & Kilmacanogue.

No other routes there have buses cancelled on their timetables.

It's because there is a work to rule on my the min with the shunter's in the garages so buses haven't been cleaned or refueled for the next day, so buses are leaving very from garages when done.. it will be like this for the week

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