BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

Between Cuffe Street and Westmorland Street, they'll travel along Stephen's Green West to link up with E-spine, and then follow the same routing via Dawson Street and lower Grafton Street/College Green. I presume the Bellevue Avenue location is a misprint, that's a road out by Vincents Hospital!

The 23 and 24 weekday timings are fine but it's like they didn't bother at all for the weekend.

Of course there are going to be politics involved, after all this is DB, a company that runs on union agreements and not fuel! ;)

They have now had 16 years to get used to it though. I know what DB can be like internally, it's nothing new to me, but it doesn't mean that I can't be critical of it… ;)

The 24 route is odd..

They've built a new stop 8255 at Willow Park Crescent for 24 southbound a few month back.

But there is no equivalent northbound stop, so there is a huge distance between Stop 163, Ferndale Av and Stop 134 Grove Road.

Hopefully they'll build the missing stop soon.

The situation with the buses having to wait for 3-10 minutes at the points where the routes enter the shared section will definitely cause the exact same mess we had on the E spine back in January. The E1 southbound had to wait up to 12 minutes at Ballymun, just after departing, which caused utter chaos for figuring out when the bus would come to DCU as all of them were tracking as "10 minutes early"…

Also as another poster mentioned, they seemed to not even bother with the weekend this time - the 23 and 24 have a clean 10-minute frequency during the weekdays (even if it involves a wait at the shared section), but then on Saturdays and Sundays the 23 leaves just 3-6 minutes after the 24, leaving a 15/25 minute gap in service after it.
The F spine southbound seems to be a mess on all days of the week.

Unfortunately I don't expect them to fix this anytime soon. While the 10-minute waits will most likely be removed within the first few days as everyone will complain about the mess it causes, the E1 and E2 still travel southbound at the exact same time, although it's not as bad there because at least the routes still operate every 8-10 minutes each. But I wouldn't be surprised if they don't fix it here either.

There is a big gap on the 73 between Aston Quay and Wood Quay westbound (currently the 123 has 4 stops along its equivalent section). Same issue exists Eastbound.

Regarding the gaps on the 24, I'd assume residents resisted bus stops outside theee houses cknsidering where the new bus stops were placed and that the area never had a bus service before.

I work in Harristown (DB) and live on Glasanaon Road the 23 is a downgrade for me. Going from a direct service to 2 buses. I understand some areas win and some lose but sirely it made sense to retain the existing 83 links to Horizon and Harristown. Perhaps a way around the 23/24 scheduling issue would be to extend the 23 to the Airport. I did email local councillors/TD's but got few responses. They were very active last year to resolve the issues on the 19, I wonder why? 🤣

I submitted responses to the consultations in 2018/9 when I lived in Coolock.

I'm a bit skeptical of the F3 timings in Finglas. McKee Ave, Finglas Village and Tolka Valley can be a pain at peak commute times but we shall see.

Of course anyone getting the bus in Finglas Village to City centre would be better getting the F2 at Mellowes Road or along Finglas Main St

The NTA offices or from a TFI rep at bus stops on the 19th.

On the bus stop at Steevens Lane westbound. You'd think they would proof read these things before printing and displaying them. The 720/O is not in operation yet.

Even the 13/G1 share the route till Inchicore but they pick every 2nd bus stop to avoid showing this detail.

Good to hear they are not done building stops. Maybe they’ll put an outbound stop at willow park crescent as well.