BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

The D4 going to every 12 minutes I am imagining is part of plan to provide a decent bus service for the massive new development at Oscar Traynor Woods on Coolock Lane. This development alone is adding 850 homes to the area, so over 3,000 additional people landing into the area over the next few years as they come on stream.

It continuing to Omni makes a bit more sense. Gives bus stop to bus stop interchange with the A spine and brings people to a busy and popular shopping centre rather than the proposed turning spot outside the Centra beside Santry Demense.

A post a while back suggested that the D2 would move to a 15 minute schedule as opposed to the current 10 minute schedule of the 27. Is there any confirmation of that or do these timings come out closer to the launch?

I suspect the H spine wasn't made 24/7 because it was the first, so maybe they hadn't considered it back then. I don't see how the routes not being cross-city means that people in Howth, Baldoyle, or Portmarnock and Malahide don't deserve a nighttime service that most other places have (or will have).

And yes, at the very least some of the radials should be 24/7 too. Some of them go close enough to spine routes so it's not a big problem, but some of them like the 86 and 88 are quite far from any spine, and therefore could really use becoming a 24/7 service in their own right. (The 87 seems to be the same as the 88 but only going as far as Belarmine, so you might as well make the 88 the 24 hour one).

The orbital routes should also be made 24/7 for the same reason - they connect different suburbs together without requiring you to go to city centre and back. Besides, the N4 already runs at night, so why not the rest of them?

The 15, 39a and 41 were already running 24hr when it launched so 24hr routes were definitely on the agenda at the time.

Turning the 65 into a very small amount of peak departures is nuts. Am I missing something ? Why not just keep the 65 - the outer connections to city centre for Embankment, back of Saggart, Manorkilbride, Donard, Blessington is still needed, the N81 is crowded enough as it.

I do wonder if this 27a replacement that is rumored to be renamed 78 could be intended to be cross city and also replace 65 to The Square. I note that the number 12 could've also been used for 27a replacement and would fit well in radial numbering system, yet that seems not to be the case. 78 would also then fit if it were to be cross city, tho it seems like a big stretch from my part

Interesting, I'm not surprised if all the Dundrum-bound GAI routes are transferred to Bray…

Really funny that they only claim that "over 98% of contracted kilometres" operated, but they don't seem to mention the punctuality. Even from my own experience, the 45A, L1, and L2 can be a disaster with buses running 10-20 minutes late almost every day at rush hour, and sometimes even during the afternoon off-peak when things get bad enough.

The timings are rather tight along the routes and the buses are often given just 5-10 minutes to turn around before their next departure, which means that the buses arrive at the terminus later than they're supposed to depart, meaning the bus doesn't recover any of the delay.

The Wicklow depot will help in terms of replacing broken down buses and for leaving the depot to start the shift, but it won't help with the terrible scheduling that prevents buses from being able to properly recover when delays happen, and they happen a lot given the amount of traffic in the Bray area.