I love you car,ill never leave you again!

Cuddlesworth · 30-01-2009 01:40PM

Bricriu wrote: »

What's all this moaning and groaning about Dublin Bus. I sold my car ages ago because of Dublin streeets being clogged up with cars (yes cars!) and it being very difficult to move around the city.

I now use buses all the time and the service is vey good. Most buses come along according to the timetable and they come much more frequently than years ago (I suspect that people base their perspective on Dulbin Bus on a time before the Government was forced to start subsidising it properly).

I have absolutely no connection with Dublin Bus but think it gets very unfair comment from people who are married to their cars and use the buses once in a blue moon, from people who think that mixing with others on buses is dangerous and possibly bad for their health, from people who have a 'privatise everything' agenda, and from people who don't put their minds in gear before they open their mouth.

Just look at what happened in Britian when a lot of the train and bus services were privatised: their adherence to the timetable is no better than when they were a public service. The Nightlink is great too and gets you home fast. Look at the LUAS (which is private): it takes 45 minutes to get to Tallaght, and it has a dedicated (off-road) track for a part of that journey. Buses get there nearly as fast.

I take my hat off to Dublin Bus and Bus Éireann staff who do a good job for a public who unfairly moan and groan about easy targets.

A pity the Government is cutting back on an essential service; they should leave it as is and raise the money needed by tolling private car-users who insist on driving into the city on unessential journeys.

Thats funny. Where I live you could be waiting for a bus from 5 to 40 minutes, journey time is between 1 to 1.5 hours sometimes more. There is a bus lane the entire way in and out. I have to walk across town to the starting bus stops to get on(another 15 minutes) otherwise its full from between 5pm to 7pm by the time it gets southside, the morning I just cross my fingers and pray.

You can do the same journey in a car in 25 minutes clear day or an hour in traffic, bike in 40 and to my surprise a motorbike in 20. Screw Dublin bus, my motorbike works out cheaper and will save me days of free time.

You won't get my money any more.

justsomebloke · 30-01-2009 01:45PM

moral of the story, always have a change of clothes in work just in case sh!t happens

anniehoo · 30-01-2009 03:34PM

Joe the Santa wrote: »

always have a change of clothes in work just in case sh!t happens

Yeh i prefer your option than Daddios

Daddio wrote: »

There's a radiator in the corner to dry your clothes,

...for whatever reason he thinks its grand to sit in work half naked while your clothes dry!:rolleyes:

Fulton Crown · 31-01-2009 01:22AM

anniehoo wrote: »

What a miserable miserable morning (and last night) getting to and from work! After a few too many in the pub near work last night i left my car in the work car park, thinking "grand nitelink home, bus to work in the morning sorted"! How wrong was i! :mad::(

So got soaked waiting for the last bus into town last night.Asked the clueless bus driver was there nitelinks on thurs nites as there usually is but knowing dublin bus ye have to check anyway. He'd no idea and judging by the row of taxis at the stops they werent goin to appear anytime soon! "Awww loike nowons answerdin at da statuuun love noo oi deea if theyre on tenoite" Brilliant..it is dublin bus after all! €25 in a taxi home :mad:

Got soaked again waiting on the bus to work then this mornin and sat there with 50 equally as rain sodden knackered lookin people, rivers of condensation flinging itself of the windows so i couldnt even have a kip for a few minutes!

Got off the bus an hour and 15 minutes later only for the bus behind to fly by and splash me ..lovely...so i have now turned up in work, hungover,p*ssed off,wanting to emigrate and i have to drag around waterlogged dog earred lookin jean legs all day!

I love you car i should never have left you it sooo wasnt worth it!! I will happily sit on your heated comfy little seats and never complain about traffic again!:D

Brilliant post..hope Dempsey reads it

Setun · 31-01-2009 04:11AM

anniehoo wrote: »

Yeh i prefer your option than Daddios
...for whatever reason he thinks its grand to sit in work half naked while your clothes dry!:rolleyes:

It makes an office more interesting, no?

I love you car,ill never leave you again!

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