BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

What is the press-it box?

The problem with Dublin Bus's timing bands is that all buses leaving between 6:30 and 7:30 have the exact same timing pattern. Traffic conditions change gradually - the amount of cars and bus passengers doesn't suddenly double the moment clocks hit 6:30. This means that the bus leaving at 7:20 will often be late as traffic gets bad, whereas the 6:40 bus will often be early as there's nowhere near as much traffic.

The E1 northbound departures actually become irregular before it switches to an 8-minute frequency: there are buses leaving Ballywaltrim at 6:30, 6:35, 6:43, and 6:45. It almost screams like this was done to make the buses spread apart and keep a decent frequency along the route, but instead all of them take the exact same amount of time to get to Dublin and Northwood.

If not fixing the timings to begin with, it would've at least made some sense to add a few buses halfway along the route to reduce the largest gaps. The fact that the buses departed the terminus 10 minutes apart is not much use if you're taking the bus from the city centre (or, even worse, near the other terminus) and have to wait 30 minutes.

Honestly for as much gibberish as that table was it did make a lot of small corrections that are now gone, such as the many routes routes missing early morning departures. But also as you point out its managed to keep a few of the possibly new typos like the 48 and 98 early departures and I've also noticed it is missing the 30-min freq for the 60.

Also the orbitals, 48, 98, and X1 missing departures are still there, the boxes just aren't coloured so its white text on a white box. I only noticed it now when I was highlighting rows to help me read.