How can we make buses safer?

Wagon · 21-10-2008 11:47AM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Thats what taxi's are for. :pac:

Nt all of us can afford them and besides, even if we could at the time, the odds of getting one in the city centre at a weekend are very slim, regardless of how sober you look. Every pub closes at the same feckin time (ironic results for the nanny state) and a load of people are out on the streets at once looking for transport. Sometimes, the bus is the only way to go

Ive only ever had one really close call that could have landed me in hospital, and thats when i got off the bus after work one evening (the great 77) and was walking away alongside the bus when some **** threw a glass bottle at me from the upper deck. Missed by inches and smashed on the ground behind me. Course, i couldn't ever catch him because he was already pulling away with all his mates on the bus. Pack of ****.

Mark200 · 21-10-2008 12:09PM

Wagon wrote: »

Nt all of us can afford them and besides, even if we could at the time, the odds of getting one in the city centre at a weekend are very slim, regardless of how sober you look. Every pub closes at the same feckin time (ironic results for the nanny state) and a load of people are out on the streets at once looking for transport. Sometimes, the bus is the only way to go

Ive only ever had one really close call that could have landed me in hospital, and thats when i got off the bus after work one evening (the great 77) and was walking away alongside the bus when some **** threw a glass bottle at me from the upper deck. Missed by inches and smashed on the ground behind me. Course, i couldn't ever catch him because he was already pulling away with all his mates on the bus. Pack of ****.

You should have called up Dublin Bus to see if they had CCTV on that bus. Lucky escape though

Kensington · 21-10-2008 01:18PM

Never had a problem with Dublin Bus really. Only had two "incidents" in the past three years - one on the 150 where some gob****es started chucking bangers at the door of the bus when it stopped along by Dolphin's barn. Another on the 50 where they started smashing bottles of miller all over the place because the driver kicked them off when they travelled as far as their fare would allow. Never had any trouble on the 77.

And there's no better way to get home drunk than the Nitelink - busload of locked people upstairs, the lyrics to a few dubliners songs and you're in for a great trip home :pac:

Dave! wrote:

Only problem I've had on buses is people smoking.

The joke's on them though, because my sneezing fits leave all my airborne germs floating around.

They'll finish their smoke, then 10 years later, BAM! Herpes.

Note to self: Find out what bus Dave frequents and then never, ever take it........

Mark200 · 21-10-2008 01:27PM

I've taken the nitelink (42N) three or four times in the last few months. Never had any problems really, actually had good craic on them upstairs with friends.

The first one I ever got though, we sat downstairs and as we were going through the Coolock/Darndale area (of course) we heard a huge bang, and then a few seconds later we heard glass moving all around upstairs. The bus driver pulled over after a minute or two and went upstairs. At this stage we didn't really know what happened, we thought maybe someone dropped loads of beer bottles or something. One guy followed the bus driver down the stairs and he sat downstairs instead.

It wasn't until we got off and looked at the bus and saw a huge hole on the side of one of the top windows....obviously someone had thrown a brick or something at it. It could have been very serious if someone happened to be sitting beside that window at the time

Rozabeez · 21-10-2008 01:30PM

I expected this to be a thread on the likes of seatbelts and limiting the amount of standing passengers... surely that's how buses should be made safer?

Someone smoking/playing music/acting the knack on a bus would be the least of my worries if there was a crash and a few dozen bodies were thrown around that long rectangular space...deathtraps!

thefinalstage · 21-10-2008 02:41PM

Rozabeez wrote: »

acting the knack

LOl, dublinised already

Wagon · 21-10-2008 02:50PM

Mark200 wrote: »

You should have called up Dublin Bus to see if they had CCTV on that bus. Lucky escape though

Probably should have in retrospect, but it was a few years ago now.

Rozabeez wrote: »

I expected this to be a thread on the likes of seatbelts and limiting the amount of standing passengers... surely that's how buses should be made safer?

Someone smoking/playing music/acting the knack on a bus would be the least of my worries if there was a crash and a few dozen bodies were thrown around that long rectangular space...deathtraps!

Buses are big and heavy and limited to certain speeds. They fare better than most vehicles on dublin's roads. Also, drivers are pretty good too. So your more at risk from the one ****head who gets on.

AnonoBoy · 21-10-2008 02:51PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Thats what taxi's are for. :pac:

But what about the tracking chips taxi drivers pass out under the guise of 'receipts'?????? :eek:

AnonoBoy · 21-10-2008 02:54PM

BOFH_139 wrote: »

All we need to ban all the free loading OAP's as well, they get free travel and also all the good seats

Hopefully the government will take their travel passes off them. Can't see any hassle stemming from that. Nope.

mickdw · 21-10-2008 03:22PM

Make buses smaller so that they only transport yourself and a friend or two at any time. Allow them to park at a know location in the city and then you simply walk up to one and tell the driver where to take you. Get rid of all the big buses so that these new buses can really make good use of the bus lanes. This service would cost more than the current bus system but with all the subsidies the bus company gets from government, it might work out cheap!

Rozabeez · 21-10-2008 03:23PM

thelastangryman wrote: »

LOl, dublinised already

You mean I didn't just make that term up? Sad now.

Canis Lupus · 21-10-2008 03:47PM

Leave Dublin, it's a terrible hole of a place anyway, then wall in the scum that remains and leave them to their own devices.

A bit like the movie, it should only take them 28 Days till McD and BK run out of food and they'll all starve to death.

How can we make buses safer?

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