BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

To be fair the library does need to be expanded - I would not describe that as a vanity project.

The issue really is that they aren’t providing a better alternative terminus.

I don’t think that the current proposals put public transport users to the fore, do you?

We will have a range of bus stops (used by the public) at a major transport interchange scattered across the area so that people may have to walk up to 450m to switch routes, rather than having them integrated together in one location.

That flies in the face of good transport infrastructure planning.

I said bus stops used by the public.

The locations of the layovers are irrelevant to the public in terms of this discussion (but it’s important that they provide enough space for this - which they are doing).

It will be 450m from stops 7719/10160 on Taney Road (used by routes 14 /A2 / A4 / S6) to the new L25 and 74 terminus stop on the bypass, which is being moved further away along the bypass as part of this. That is not a good thing.

There are no bus shelters at the stops on Taney Road or Dundrum bypass and they are far less attractive places to wait than a purpose built interchange (or the existing 14 terminus), with relatively narrow footpaths at the stops on Taney Road.

Isn’t the current Carnegie library building a listed building?

I doubt it can be materially altered?

I’ve no issue with DLRCoCo building a new library and civic space, provided that a proper bus interchange is provided as well adjacent to the LUAS stop.

What I would like to see is a proper bus interchange built at the northern end of the shopping centre site extending over where the road is currently, with the road from the Main St. to the bypass moved south of that interchange.

Now if they want to build above it, fine, but there has to be a better solution than having the various stops scattered over such a wide area.

rx8 has explained it very well.

Just to add that partial cancellations can also happen where a driver is not available to take over from the handover point along a route. The service will only operate to or from the handover point depending on what the unavailable driver is supposed to be covering - so a 14 could operate as a 14c to Eden Quay and not continue, or it could start at Eden Quay.