BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

If someone here is working for Dublin Bus and in Donnybrook, can someone please tell them to make them operate a expresso route, ideally from Sandyford/Dundrum to Merrion Square. The 44 is terrible at peak times.

Dublin Bus does not design its own routes.

Yes they're the NTA's doing

"architecturally sensitive location" has got me laughing. To put it bluntly, Ballinteer is a sprawling suburban kip. You could level the whole suburb tomorrow and lose nothing of any historical or cultural significance.

Anyway, it's another example of wanting cake and eating it too. "We want more buses, but not bus drivers!" It's an area that has greatly benefited so far under BusConnects with the 74 and S8 and will continue to benefit greatly in a few months time with a new 24 hour bus route in the 80. Those 270 households objecting would change their minds quick enough when nature calls and the bus drivers need to use the local hedges, day and night!

To be fair, you could mix up the below with the French Riviera, or perhaps Venice?

What have toilets on coaches got to do with bus connects?

The article about the bus toilets is hilarious …on the one hand the residents say they take pride in their neighbourhood, but on the other hand they think it will be a source of antisocial behaviour …which is it?

I know if I lived beside a terminus of a long route like the 16, that I’d rather have the drivers using a dignified facility, rather than pissing in the bushes.

We really are decades behind when it comes to public toilets in this country.

The Bray dart Station is closed for just today cos unannounced maintenance works. No buses to Dublin stop outside the station and there is no rail replacement bus. The NTA never answer my pleas. FOr a bus replacement service esp for stops like Dalkey and Blackrock. Why can't say the E1 be diverted temporarily to the DART station?

DB ran a shuttle from Connolly to GCD last January when the Loopline Bridge was closed was very poorly advertised and seemed to be very few using it. Although probably harder to get driver to do OT this time of year.

Rail replacement buses don't have to be done by DB plenty of privates would be glad of the work. They seem to have no problem using privates for Luas replacement.