BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

Glasnevin Avenue which used have the 9 bus into city centre now only has the N4 bus to Blanchardstown so city centre is not directly served anymore. This is absolutely ridiculous. Lots of elderly residents living on Willow Park Road/ Willlow Park Avenue/ Beneavin Park/ Pinewood etc and must now walk 20 mins to Ballymun Road to get a bus.

Dublin Bus don't operate this route anymore so maybe the communication here should come from the new operator..Go-ahead Ireland. Ultimately though, the responsibility for this surely lies with NTA/TFI.

good news for people waiting on the O. I just wish the O was prioritised over the spines, it is the most important route in the bus connects scheme. Disappointing that there's been no effort to sort the signalling issue on Heuston Bridge. Are we to take it that the technical issues with batteries are now resolved?

This wouldn't be too bad if we had functional real time, people could plan their journeys but we don't and looks like we wont for the a while despite the money spent on upgrading the system with no results.

The 82 is much lower frequency than the southside 83 was but if goes much further out of town.

If she rides the 82 all the way from the end it will be much slower but the point is to change to 15A or F2 around Limekiln/ Rossmore, F3/S4 at Ashleaf etc.

It takes time for people to work out how to use the new network and the info from NTA is very poor.

There is virtually no info on the interaction between the new routes and the existing network and I don't think there is a map of the bus network in Dublin which is a pretty basic requirement for the NTA to maintain.

If you look at the above map, there are definitely elderly people along Wellmount Avenue and other areas in Finglas that have a fair walk for a bus

Sorry, understand the removal of a bus route on the Beneavin Road is a pain, but there are a variety of routes close by

Anyone could use Google Maps or Transit apps to find the quickest journey. People are just not used to the changes and lack enthusiasm to learn about the new routes themselves.

The F spine routes seem to be performing very poorly at least in Finglas, sending them down Whitworth road is a retrograde step in my opinion. Anyone know how the 82 is performing?

The 82 is my local route in Kiltipper and it hasn't had an easy first week.

Today was the first day that any bus made it up to Marlfield between 9 and 10 in the morning which is round about an 80% failure rate for the week. A snapshot just now (3pm) shows the buses at the Tallaght end between 20 and 45 minutes late on the road which will inevitably lead to more cancelations/partial cancelations as the day goes on. As LXFlyer rightly says, this is mainly down to awful scheduling and impossible running times.

I get the idea about switching to cut out the meandering of the 82 as a radial but you have to be able to rely on the service at the outer edges or you're leaving people stranded at stops for upwards of an hour and that's just not good enough.

Having the first weeks of the service so poor damages confidence in the long term. If passengers, particularly those at stops not served by an alternative feel there is a decent chance they will be let down again then they will quite rightly lose trust.

Simon

The 24 just pulled into the wrong bay at the airport, and no one at the right stop except me seems to have noticed.

EDIT: the driver has gone to the right stop to tell people but has left the carriage empty and the bus running.

The typical GoAhead routine of running their new route at the expense of other routes has started.

Yeah it does seem worse than normal. Having it on the Friday of a bank holiday weekend isn't helping either.

This is the problem.

Buses dont run reliably so the connections are not reliable.

People then dont want to change. Its not like the underground in Paris or London where changing is a no brainer.

Its hard to see the final busconnects roll out being a success as the snarl of traffic will continue to worsen as we move through the phases.

5 buses cancelled in a row is completely inexcusable. That can't be blamed on Friday afternoon traffic. It's definitely due to driver and/or bus shortages.