BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

69X this morning pulled in at the stop outside Harris/Izuzu on the Naas Road and played the 'in order to get the bus back on schedule there will be a short delay' message. I've never heard that on any of the X routes before, thought whole point of them is they're supposed to be quicker. Might have been a new driver I suppose.

The other week on the reverse journey back out to Rathcoole, there was crap traffic at the turn off into Kilmainham from Con Colbert. Driver obviously was fed up, so we ended up going straight up the N4 and onto the M50 southbound and then back onto the N7 at the Red Cow. I was delighted, but hopefully nobody was waiting to get on/off at Kylemore Luas!

Is there a Route map for the 82 that includes stops it serves?

Was waiting at stop 495 on Westland Row and the 82 made no attempt to get in lane and stop. Stayed in the driving lane past the stop, ready for turning right onto Pearse St.

Christ, I wonder do they all skip it. Seems difficult to get from the left lane at that stop over to right lane in short distance.

That stop is behind a row of lane divider bollards. There is no way a bus can serve it and then try to turn right onto Pearse Street. The NTA has made a mistake in allocating that stop to the route.

I'll make a complaint to the NTA and have it dealt with ASAP 🤣

I was eager to see how the bus would navigate the small gap in the dividers but it is likely all services skip it as it is not workable.

The app lead me to that stop. RTPI board has the 82 on it. Stop has printed timetable ffs. I don't think anyone from the NTA is driven the routes in a car or even on Google street view.

That stop 495 on Westland Row stood out to me as very difficult for the 82 to serve. There's a gap in the bollards which may be for the 82 to switch lanes but even still it doesn't look possible.

Seems like the E1 is getting two extra peak-time departures from Monday - a short Woodbrook College→Parnell Square service at 7:15, and a Parnell Square→Ballywaltrim service at 17:08. The Woodbrook service was previously a feature of the 145, so good to see that making a re-appearence.

https://www.dublinbus.ie/news/revised-times-on-route-15-and-e1

Route E1 will have two additional departures Monday to Friday. Route E1 will operate from stop 4202, Woodbrook College towards Parnell Square West at 07:15hrs and from stop 264, Parnell Square East towards Ballywaltrim at 17:08hrs.

Just an off-note too... The public timetable and the ones drivers work too are different, in that 'official' timings can be wildly different. One example is a duty I used to do, 0710 leaving Sandyford and officially hand over at 0820 on PSQW but the timetable had us actually handing over at 0749. Midterm made that a nightmare because you'd be there for 0749 but the Pressit box says you're 30 minutes early. Can't win 😊

I'm out of there now, but that was a major factor in why I left. They just don't listen to the drivers when they say it's unreasonable. I'm still in public transport but it's very hard to be early on a train 😂

Was on a 19 year old beat up diesel bus coming out of town on the new 73 route.

Doesn't scream progression or sustainability.

At times it seems like they actively want to discourage use of public transport.