How badly will public transport be affected by the snow?

Bus Eireann are also updating their website regularly:

http://www.buseireann.ie/news.php?id=920&month=Nov

http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/News-Centre/Travel-News/Weather-Disruptions/

General News





Weather Disruptions


Sunday, November 28, 2010



Updated 11:50 Dublin Bus wishes to advise customers that due to adverse weather conditions the following diversions and curtailments are in place. This list will be continuously updated throughout the day.

Route 7
Terminating at Cherrywood not serving Loughlinstown Park.

Routes 16 and 16a
Terminating Southside at Nutgrove, not serving Ballinteer.

Route 19
Not serving Tolka Estate.

Route 31
Terminating in Howth Village not serving Howth Hill.

Route 33
Terminating in Swords.

Route 40b
Terminating at St. Margaret's Road, not serving Toberburr.

Route 41cNot serving River Valley.

Route 44Terminating at Ballyogan Road Roundabout, not serving Enniskerry.

Routes 45 and 184
Terminating at Bray Rail Station.

Route 59
Terminating in Dalkey.

Route 65
Not serving Balrothery, using Tallaght Bypass, terminating in Blessington.
Route 65b
Not serving Killinarden Estate.

Route 66a
Not using Captain's Hill, terminating at Lidl Roundabout.

Route 74
Terminating at Scholarstown Roundabout.

Route 74a
Terminating at Ballycullen Roundabout.

Route 77
Not using Cheeverstown Road, operating via Tallaght Bypass to Jobstown.

Route 77a
Not using Seskin View Road, operating via Tallaght Bypass.

Route 78a
Using Parliament St./Lord Edward St. not serving Bridge St.

Route 79
Not serving Decies Rd. using Ballyfermot Rd., terminating at Cherry Orchard Hospital.

Route 122
Terminating at Ashtown Roundabout, not serving Ashington.
Route 145
Terminating at Ballywaltrim Cemetery.
Routes serving Tallaght Village
Unable to access Tallaght Village.
Routes serving The Square, Tallaght
Unable to access the shopping centre.

All other routes are operating as normal.
Dublin Bus would like to apologise to customers for any inconvenience caused.

Sigh, route 184 terminating at Bray Station? What's new about that? Do they possibly mean route 84 terminating at Bray Station, and 184 not running? They can never get one of these notices 100% right!

Also no mention of the 185, doubt that's running.

Weather Disruptions
Sunday, November 28, 2010
Updated 17:05
Dublin Bus wishes to advise customers that due to adverse weather conditions the following diversions and curtailments are in place. This list will be continuously updated throughout the day.

Route 3
Terminating at Ringsend Garage.

Route 7
Terminating at Cherrywood, not serving Loughlinstown Park.

Route 13
Not serving Shangan.

Routes 16 and 16a
Not serving Collins Avenue, Beaumount Road and Shantallagh Road, terminating southside at Nutgrove, not serving Ballinteer.


Route 18
Terminating at The RDS.

Route 19
Not serving Tolka Estate.

Route 27
Not serving the loop in Darndale, operating via Malahide Road only.

Route 31
Terminating in Howth Village not serving Howth Hill.

Route 38
Castleknock Bridge closed, not serving Castleknock Village.

Route 40b
Terminating at St. Margaret's Road, not serving Toberburr.


Route 40d
Not serving Tyrellstown Estate, outbound only.

Route 41c
Not serving River Valley.

Routes 45
Operating via Boghall Road, terminating at Killarney Road.

Route 50 and 65b
Not serving Killinarden Estate.

Route 59
Terminating in Dalkey.

Route 65
Not serving Balrothery, using Tallaght Bypass, terminating in Blessington.

Route 66a
Not using Captain's Hill, terminating at Lidl Roundabout.

Route 74
Terminating at Scholarstown Roundabout.

Route 74a
Terminating at Ballycullen Roundabout.

Route 77
Not using Cheeverstown Road, operating via Tallaght Bypass to Jobstown.

Route 77a
Not using Seskin View Road, operating via Tallaght Bypass.

Route 78a
Using Parliament Street/Lord Edward Street not serving Bridge Street

Route 79
Not serving Decies Road using Ballyfermot Road, terminating at Cherry Orchard Hospital.

Route 84
Operating to Newcastle as normal, not serving Greystones Harbour.

Route 114
Terminating at Kilcross, not serving Ticknock.

Route 122
Terminating at Ashtown Roundabout, not serving Ashington.

Route 145
Terminating at Kilmacanogue, not serving Ballywaltrim Estate.

Route 184
Terminating at Charlesland, not serving Kilpedder, Delgany and Newtownmountkennedy.

Route 185
Terminating at Enniskerry Village.

Routes serving Tallaght Village
Unable to access Tallaght Village.

Routes serving The Square, Tallaght
Unable to access the shopping centre.

All other routes are operating as normal.
Dublin Bus would like to apologise to customers for any inconvenience caused.

Weather Disruptions
Monday, November 29, 2010
Updated 10:55

Dublin Bus wishes to advise customers that due to adverse weather conditions the following diversions and curtailments are in place. All other routes are operating as normal. This list will be updated frequently throughout the day.

Dublin Bus will endeavour to operate as many services as possible today and over the coming days. However, this is subject to weather and road conditions. Dublin Bus is continuously monitoring road conditions with An Garda Síochána and Local Authorities.

Route 15b
Not serving Marion Road and Butterfield Avenue.

Route 18
Terminating at The RDS.

Route 44
Not serving Ballyogan Estate.

Route 44b
Terminating at Blue Church, Kilternan.

Route 45
Operating from Southern Cross Roundabout.

Route 45a
Terminating at Ballywaltrim Cemetery.

Route 59
Terminating at Dalkey.

Route 63
Not serving Ballyogan Estate.

Route 65
Terminating at Blessington.

Route 74a
Terminating at Scholarstown Roundabout.

Route 74
Terminating at Ballycullen Roundabout.

Route 79
Terminating at Cherry Orchard Hospital, not serving Decies Road, Cherry Orchard Avenue and Park West.

Route 84
Terminating at Kilcoole.

Route 114
Terminating at Kilcross.

Route 123
Not serving Marino Estate, operating via Philipsburgh Avenue.

Route 145
Not serving Killarney Lane.

Route 161
Terminating at Ballyboden Roundabout.

Route 184
Terminating at Charlesland.

Route 185
Terminating at Enniskerry.

jenizzle wrote: »

The bus lanes weren't gritted or salted this morning, so any busses that did actually decide to turn up were crawling along.

It's probably worth clarifying where you're talking about. The bus lanes along Oscar Traynor, D17 weren't great but the bus lanes along Swords Road, Drumcondra road, city centre and Georges St were completely clear.

The 6:14 Longford - Pearse train didn't run this morning..
Apparently the brakes were frozen

schemingbohemia wrote: »

I'd like to praise the driver of my Nitelink on Saturday night who did a brilliant job of getting us home safely - 0030 46n to Dalkey - the snow was pelting it down at that stage and even with the numptys outside Wesley walking in the middle of the road wearing feck all and thinking it hilarious to throw snowballs at us - he managed to keep us moving. The journey took an hour as opposed to 30 minutes the previous night but just delighted he got us home safely.

Not sure what he did with the crowd who descended on him in Dalkey asking to be brought somewhere/anywhere. Do Nitelinks pick up at their termini? If not, why not?

Nitelinks stopped running after that one I think, which meant I was left stranded in town at 3:15 and had to wait til 4:55 to get a taxi on O'Connell St.

Also, Nitelinks have selected stops where they pick-up, dunno why its like that tbh, maybe its for effiency reasons ... But we are talking about DB here so that's probably not the reason.

Also, Airport Flybus wasn't running earlier and my bus was late.

I was on the last bus through Beaumont Hospital this evening before they were all pulled at 19.35 It took almost 20 minutes to get around the new route although most of that wasn't anything to do with the snow - it was more to do with bad parking and two buses not having room to meet inside the hospital.

I was getting the 145 home from Nassau st this evening and got to the bus stop at about 18.15 to see apparently all the 145's only going to Bray Dart station. After the 2nd of these appeared I decided to get on one and hopefully get on a non-relief bus in Bray as there was no mention of early terminations of the 145 according to dublinbus.ie which was being updated approximately between every 5 and 15 minutes with updates of changes due to the weather.

Got to Bray eventually and got off opposite Superquinn assuming there would be another 145 along in a while. in the space of about 15 min, two other 145's appeared both terminating at the Dart station along with several other out of service buses. I walked up the main street to McCarthy's and after a wait of 7min (bang on the estimated time according to whensmybus.ie) I got the 133 to Kilmacanogue. Throughout this wait, it appeared quite apparent that no buses were travelling further through Bray than the dart station especially looking at the number of people either looking for taxis or running to get the Finnegans bus.

Unsurprisingly, there was no further update on the bus situation for the Bray area on the dublinbus website - only in the 21.20 update are mentions made of the suspension of service on the 184/185 buses and termination of the 84 in Bray (not mentioned in the 21.00 update). IF you believe the website, the 45A is running a complete service and the 145 is only skipping the Kilarney lane loop. While I have been home for the last 90 min or so, I strongly suspect that no services have been running in the Bray area for the evening. Why then, has the website not been updated informing passengers of such information? It has been updated regularly with other route changes.

I will be emailing dublinbus in the morning but am not hopeful of a reply, let alone of an explanation as I have yet to receive one from them in any matter apart from queries in relation to network direct (sorry, network they wrecked) Part 1.

doolox wrote: »

It took nearly 2 hours to get a taxi off o'connell st?????

Where are all the taxis when you need them?

We're in a recession - so pre-celtic tiger taxi service....
at least it wasn't raining...


The southbound platform in Tara station was covered in snow this morning at 8am, so it'd be iced up shortly after, forcing customers to step down across a gap onto a guess of the surface state.
On the way home there were inch high piles of salt on the covered steps up to the Townsend st end of the station. the mind boggles.

Dublin Bus disruptions are now posted on the front of the Dublin Bus website:
http://www.dublinbus.ie/

In general, busses don't seem to be going above 60m asl on the southside, and are avoiding regional and access roads in other areas.