BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

I'm saying if the centre doors are blocked then surely it would be common sense for the buggy user to get out at the front.

Not doubting your logic but an awful lot of bus stops would need modification if we were to move the ramp to the centre door. As it is, a lot of them aren't even set up for foot passengers exiting through the centre door.

Anyone has any idea on when the construction on the Bray bus corridor might start?

It is anyhow gonna take years to be fully completed but wondering on when they will get a grip on doing that, would definitely ease some traffic going into Bray after completion (but will be hell during)

The PA and I think the EW has a manual ramp at the centre doors.

Manual ramps are quite common in most of the UK outside of London and on the continent. They wouldn't fly here as afaik DB policy is that drivers can't leave the cab whilst in service unless it's an emergency.

I hope this is on topic….

Anyone know if the proposed connection to the Liffey Valley bus hub/interchange at the centre (from N4) has made any progress or is it out for tender yet etc.? I don't see anything resembling works like that at the moment.

I'm sure I read (probably here) that a new bridge was to be constructed near the Johnson and Johnson offices (I think) to make the connection to the hub more efficient or something.

As it is, the trek from the hub to the N4 bus stops on both sides of the carriageway is a joke. You'd need a packed lunch to get you there! But I know they are working on some solution. I hope!

Do the EA's have their WC ramp at the front doors or middle doors?

How do wheelchairs users find them when they get to board or alight these buses at their stops?

I would say that bus stop infrastructure and on the buses themselves very much fits this thread. The granular spotter stuff can feck off to the thread you linked though.

then I will test the water !

I see the odd single decker electric out and about e.g. on the 99 into the phoenix park , are they ready to enter squadron service on the O . That reminds me - did they do deconfliction testing at the top of Steevens lane to ensure the tram and the bus wont hit each other on the tight bend there ( and for the S2 doubledeckers as well now I come to think of it )

With the broad mention above that the orbital might get going I've seen no action get started on the signalling changes at Heuston but I've not been down there for the last week or two

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As an aside, sigh, how depressing is it that I posted this 8 years ago!:

Mostly the things that many of us have long been waiting for, hopefully it won't take long to implement them.

Yeah, possible naïvety on my part, but thinking back to Jared Walkers initial plan back then. At the time, I used to get on a bus going into the city centre, go five stops, and then change to a bus also going into the city centre but via a different main road to avoid a load of schools and traffic on my own bus route. His plan would (and still will, once that route gets going) will do what I was doing at the time. Didn't renew my annual bus taxsaver ticket in January, waiting until June for the cheaper newer Bus/Rail/Luas one. But what I do now, taking advantage of the leap 90 that I couldn't before because I only had a bus ticket, is get on an orbital to a luas and get the luas in to city centre. Can't guarantee the bus won't be full and not stop, and if I do, it'll just be sitting in traffic. And Bus to Luas, and Luas to O'Connell Street gets me in quicker than Bus to Eden Quay area.

Genuinely saw a silent single decker on the route the week before last or thereabouts outside the Aras with the 99 route on the sign , people getting onto it from the stop

There's a thread on Reddit from yesterday saying there's been a load of cancellations occurring on the 4, 7 & 7a within the past month. Has there been any major issues occurring in Donnybrook recently which has seen all of these buses cancelled?

Why's that?

Myself and another have gone to Irish Rail, two others from other depots are in our class too. The rest are retirements and relatively new drivers not happy with being given so many night duties that overlap into normal ones so they're essentially going to work twice in one day

Is there any update on the OOMA tender actually. I remember seeing in this thread that Go Ahead had won the tender for those routes