Nitelink to be stopped after february

chucken1 · 05-02-2011 01:13AM

skywalker_208 wrote: »

Boohoo thats just shocking....
And belongs in the Dublin forum not AH....

But dont you know everyone lives in Dublin!? :P

But seriously..dont you love the way they talk in numbers..the 67b,54r and the 44dd bus-train-luas??!

We have "the bus" once a day! :eek:

Latchy · 05-02-2011 01:21AM

punchdrunk wrote: »

no more looking down tops from the top deck outside 21's...jesus wept!

jaziz no ..how bad can it get

Tar.Aldarion wrote: »

perhaps if they changed the terms and conditions on the ticket so that they could spend the extra money people spend on tickets and never collect, it might help out.

Or if at least all that loose change is going to a charity then so be it .

gurramok · 05-02-2011 01:38AM

So this a boom to the taxi drivers. Feck sake it still costs a fortune to have a night out in Dublin. :mad:

Tchaikovsky · 05-02-2011 01:39AM

kenmc wrote: »

Barcelona, for example, not even a capital city, has 24 hour metros every saturday night, and around public holidays e.g. new years eve etc. you know, like when people might like to go out a bit later than usual.

One of the benifits of living under a fascist dictatorship for 36 years.

Bottle_of_Smoke · 05-02-2011 01:48AM

kenmc wrote: »

And certainly not Dublin either Stupid bloody public transport closing down just cos it gets a bit dark. Barcelona, for example, not even a capital city, has 24 hour metros every saturday night, and around public holidays e.g. new years eve etc. you know, like when people might like to go out a bit later than usual.

Amsterdam has night busses every day of the week

Our fcukin trams don't even meet in the middle

dublin metropoltan area 1.6million people

barcelona metropolitan area 5 million people

Yakult · 05-02-2011 01:49AM

Why dont they just run the Luas 24/7?

WindSock · 05-02-2011 01:55AM

Yakult wrote: »

Why dont they just run the Luas 24/7?

Oh damn you, I want a Yakult now.

Tchaikovsky · 05-02-2011 01:58AM

Yakult wrote: »

Why dont they just run the Luas 24/7?

It doesn't serve all the destinations catered for by the bus service.

I hope a private company comes in and runs every night. I had to quit my job in the city centre when they got rid of the midweek service :mad:.
Then Dublin Bus will come in and saturate said routes.. as they always do!

jetsonx · 05-02-2011 02:30AM

Tchaikovsky wrote: »

Then Dublin Bus will come in and saturate said routes.. as they always do!

Yeah, its amazing how efficient state run bus companies become when there is the whiff of competition. Dublin Bus only never took their Dublin Airport routes seriously until Aircoach came along.

Hurricane-Dean · 05-02-2011 02:50AM

Not a chance I will be paying €20-€30 maybe more depending how many are out in a taxi instead of €5 on the bus! Bastads!

thee glitz · 06-02-2011 12:45PM

Dravokivich wrote: »

It's been operating at a loss for a very long time.

Dublin Bus is the only profitable part of CIE. I can't see how they're not making
money on Nitelinks. I get the 66n/67n occasionally and they're usually busy
and not much trouble. Anyways, db is a public service organisation. Continuing
loss making routes may be desirable.

Also, op or uncle probably heard incorrectly.

macquarie · 06-02-2011 01:10PM

The VFI and their politician buddies will never allow this to happen.

plein de force · 06-02-2011 01:45PM

maybe they're talking about this kind of trouble

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dRQr9DFDqU

rich1874 · 06-02-2011 02:02PM

thee glitz wrote: »

Dublin Bus is the only profitable part of CIE. I can't see how they're not making
money on Nitelinks. I get the 66n/67n occasionally and they're usually busy
and not much trouble. Anyways, db is a public service organisation. Continuing
loss making routes may be desirable.

Also, op or uncle probably heard incorrectly.

I certainly hope one of us has heard wrong, but given that he is the controller on westmoreland street Nitelinks I hardly think he's picked it up wrong. And i did question him pretty rigoruously. But we live in hope!

littlehedgehog · 06-02-2011 02:06PM

*shrugs* same as many people, I just won't be going out in town then!
Also, last bus is going to be MENTAL now

CrazyBiscuit · 06-02-2011 02:09PM

The pubs/clubs in the city centre will not be happy.

I wont be happy either.

starviewadams · 06-02-2011 02:18PM

Meh,I've been walking from town up to Rialto most week nights I'm out to get a cheaper taxi home anyways,my nitelink is usually full of scumbags so I dont particularly like using it.

mikemac · 06-02-2011 02:25PM

macquarie wrote: »

The VFI and their politician buddies will never allow this to happen.

The VFI have nothing to do with Dublin

You're thinking of the LVA

ceadaoin. · 06-02-2011 02:29PM

This isn't a surprise, Dublin is backwards when it comes to public transport. Is it really so hard to construct a tram system that actually connects the 2 lines ffs

Most other capital cities have some form of 24 hr public transport, 7 days a week. Good news for taxi drivers anyway

Cool Mo D · 06-02-2011 02:41PM

thee glitz wrote: »

Dublin Bus is the only profitable part of CIE. I can't see how they're not making
money on Nitelinks. I get the 66n/67n occasionally and they're usually busy
and not much trouble. Anyways, db is a public service organisation. Continuing
loss making routes may be desirable.

Also, op or uncle probably heard incorrectly.

Dublin bus is not profitable, and never has been.

Iwasfrozen · 06-02-2011 02:44PM

Cool Mo D wrote: »

Dublin bus is not profitable, and never has been.

Well they charge enough.

Oisinjm · 06-02-2011 03:44PM

Iwasfrozen wrote: »

Well they charge enough.

They don't. They don't charge anywhere near the actual economic cost of the fare. Its subsidised by the government.

06-02-2011 03:48PM

orourkeda wrote: »

Whats a "normal capital city"?

Edinburgh is comparable and has a great bus service

I know some shift workers used the nightlink service, bad news for those when running a car is getting so expensive

rich1874 wrote: »

My uncle is an inspector with dublin bus and he recently told me that after february there'll be no more nitlelink buses on any routes. He said the cost of fuel and wages plus the added hassle with drunken people

^^ Typical Ireland - instead of deal with the issues of wages and fuel costs and public order they cut the service.
This is why the monopoly is bad. This is why wage fixing by the labour courts denies people services and makes Ireland a crappier place to live. Add on top an incompetent political system who`ll just add tax to everything rather than fix root problems

The Master · 06-02-2011 04:01PM

They cant take the Nitelink!

Iwasfrozen · 06-02-2011 05:46PM

Oisinjm wrote: »

They don't. They don't charge anywhere near the actual economic cost of the fare. Its subsidised by the government.

How? It's a forty minute walk from my apartment to UCD which costs 1.60 on the bus. In comparison it's fourteen euro for a return ticket to Monaghan where I live. How can that be value for service?

CabanasBoy · 06-02-2011 05:51PM

IvySlayer wrote: »

Still cheaper than a taxi.

Not if there's 3 or 4 of yiz travelling together;)

bonerm · 06-02-2011 05:54PM

Dublin shouldn't need a nitelink service. Most other cities of this size would have 24hour (or near 24hour) urban rail service.

sdanseo · 06-02-2011 06:01PM

Maybe though if the Nitelink service is cancelled, a private operator could set up a service. They wouldn't be competing directly with DB then so couldn't be refused a licence, in theory.

I detest the nitelinks. A good idea, and a moneysaver...but as someone who doesn't drink having to use them was something I actively avoided; I'm lucky enough to have a car. The behaviour of drunken asswipes in this city in general makes me ashamed to be Irish, and this spilled onto the buses. I feel sorry for any driver unlucky enough to have pulled out the Nitelink straw

CatFromHue · 06-02-2011 06:35PM

has this been verified by anyone yet?

Eric Cartman · 06-02-2011 06:39PM

rich1874 wrote: »

My uncle is an inspector with dublin bus and he recently told me that after february there'll be no more nitlelink buses on any routes. He said the cost of fuel and wages plus the added hassle with drunken people has led them to this decision. I personally get the 67N after nights out in town and it's always packed so i can't imagine how they aren't making money on that particular route. As for worrying about dealing with drunken people that just strikes me as sheer unwillingness to provide a service to genuine people on the basis of a few bad experiences. I haven't found any confirmation of this on the web but he was pretty vehement that there will be no more nitelinks from march onwards!

mate dont know what nightlink your getting , Im living in leixlip but would often stay in celbridge / maynooth or lucan after a night out , every single time ive been on the 67n somebody gets a dig to the face or somebody gets sick or urinates on the bus , the 66n isnt much better (ive had a handful of incident free journeys on it) but in all fairness I wouldnt even consider those routes particularly bad in the scheme of things , if thats whats happening on under-utilised routes to quiet north kildare then I can only imagine whats happening on nitelinks to some of the worse off areas of dublin

Nitelink to be stopped after february

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