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The Bus.

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  • #32
    GreenWolfe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,731 ✭✭✭GreenWolfe


    How about a "used to" option in the poll, OP?

    I took the bus every single day for four and a half years out of the five I've been in college. I get a lift in with a classmate now, it's much better.

    (I'm still in college at the moment, not all of us got summer holidays!)


  • #33
    Karl Stein
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,687 ✭✭✭Karl Stein


    EarthlyPangaea wrote: »
    How about a "used to" option in the poll, OP?

    I don't think I can edit it.

    Maybe a kind mod will add in an 'I used to' option?


  • #34
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    johnr1 wrote: »
    London Underground rocks !

    Yeah, from side to side.

    Especially the Met Line.


  • #35
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    .


  • #36
    Miss Lockhart
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,639 ✭✭✭Miss Lockhart


    Nimrod 7 wrote: »
    The route 40 has been serving scumbags of the highest order in Finglas South and West for many years. Trust me, I suffered it for a good while(still do suffer it, just on a more direct 140).

    They got rid of the 78A and extended the 40 all the way to Liffey Valley, now it carries scum from Finglas West, Finglas South, Ballyfermot and Lucan.

    Except it doesn't serve Lucan.


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  • #37
    shmalentine
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38 ✭shmalentine


    The last bus journey I took was with Bus Eireann from Sligo to Galway . I'v made the journey before with other bus companies who take maybe just over 2 hours on average so it pained me to have no other choice but to resort to Bus Eireann which takes about 45 mins longer on a good day.

    This time however it took nearly 4 hours to get from A to B. The bus was half an hour late and delays on the road cost us another 40 mins on top of that. By the end of it I was so agitated (I had the company if crying babies, drunks and a broken a/c) I was basically squirming to get out.

    For every time I heard 'Stand clear, luggage doors operating' I died a little inside.


  • #38
    efb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35,514 ✭✭✭✭efb


    every working day 195 to Nassau St and SSG back to Hueston


  • #39
    Knob Longman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 326 ✭✭Knob Longman


    Ah ha, hush that fuss
    Everybody move to the back of the bus
    Do you wanna bump and slump with us
    We the type of people make the club get crunk


    Can't stand the bus due to the slowness but I have to occasionally use it in the city to get around. I'd hate to be using the bus everyday though.


  • #40
    becost
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 328 ✭✭becost


    Still, I'd get a bus or walk it before I'd get a taxi. Wouldn't put a penny in one of their pockets.


  • #41
    Teyla Emmagan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,638 ✭✭✭Teyla Emmagan


    All the time! I will have to walk to work tomorrow! It's going to take me hours, with loads of time for puke stops.


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  • #42
    EB_2013
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 811 ✭✭✭EB_2013


    Conmaicne Mara wrote: »
    With good reason the Yanks call it the "Loser cruiser".

    Its a different story in the states though, where owning and running a car is dirt cheap. No nct, road tax and high fuel prices to put up with. Thats why most don't use public transport.


  • #43
    m5ex9oqjawdg2i
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,217 ✭✭✭✭m5ex9oqjawdg2i


    The bus is for peasants...


  • #44
    anncoates
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,925 ✭✭✭✭anncoates


    Around 199Povo.


  • #45
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    I had a big long post typed out and then I realised how much shyte I was talking about buses. Jesus I need to get a life.

    Sometimes I get the bus. Mostly I avoid it.


  • #46
    becost
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 328 ✭✭becost


    knacker wagons


  • #47
    mattjack
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,389 ✭✭✭mattjack


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I had a big long post typed out and then I realised how much shyte I was talking about buses. Jesus I need to get a life.

    Sometimes I get the bus. Mostly I avoid it.

    Finally, you're learning.


  • #48
    Toby Take a Bow
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,732 ✭✭✭Toby Take a Bow


    The bus is grand, will get it if it suits, although the Luas does a better job at the moment for where I'm going (which is lucky what with the strike in Dublin and all).


  • #49
    Czarcasm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,076 ✭✭✭✭Czarcasm


    I can't drive and my wife has no interest in driving, but public transport is actually more economical for us in the city than owning a car. I get the bus or a cab and she likes to walk everywhere.

    Do people who have an aversion to public transport also own private jets too? :D


  • #50
    Peregrine
    Moderators, Education Moderators Posts: 26,424 Mod ✭✭✭✭Peregrine


    Miss Lockhart wrote: »
    Except it doesn't serve Lucan.

    Ah close enough..:pac:


  • #51
    gallag
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,352 ✭✭✭gallag


    If there were no buses how would all the lazy people lift their €188 every week?

    mod: banned.


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  • #52
    Pumpkinseeds
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,635 ✭✭✭Pumpkinseeds


    I have to get the bus on Wednesday, I hate the bus. There is one pleasant driver, another is a complete cnut who plays loud and really bad trad/rebel music all the way and a female version of him who has a beer gut:confused: Crazy Gerry seems to be around again, so there's every chance that he'll be on my bus as well:rolleyes:


  • #53
    dgt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,978 ✭✭✭✭dgt


    Last time was about 2 months ago heading into town on a night out. Before that was about 2011 :cool:


  • #54
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 53,068 ✭✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Aw Pumpkinseeds post reminded me of Ray the 111 bus driver. He was (is) the loveliest man ever. I don't think the 111 bus exists any more though.


  • #55
    becost
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 328 ✭✭becost


    gallag wrote: »
    If there were no buses how would all the lazy people lift their €188 every week?

    Soon to be €208 with the heating allowance of €20 per week. And rent allowance is another €75. :p


  • #56
    Lapin
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,183 ✭✭✭✭Lapin


    gallag wrote: »
    If there were no buses how would all the lazy people lift their €188 every week?
    becost wrote: »
    Soon to be €208 with the heating allowance of €20 per week. And rent allowance is another €75. :p

    Ye took your time lads. :rolleyes:

    Threads about busses usually turn into a boring social welfare trollfest before the twentieth post.


  • #57
    gallag
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,352 ✭✭✭gallag


    Lapin wrote: »
    Ye took your time lads. :rolleyes:

    Threads about busses usually turn into a boring social welfare trollfest before the twentieth post.

    I have a life you know, but point taken and I will try harder!


  • #58
    keithclancy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,157 ✭✭✭keithclancy


    I get the bus to my house from the city center. Comes every 8 minutes

    Other than that I use my bicycle.

    I avoid driving if possible.


  • #59
    inforfun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 20,860 ✭✭✭✭inforfun


    3 years and 7 months ago was the last time i took the bus.
    And i ll never be in one again if i can avoid it.


  • #60
    hoodwinked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,175 ✭✭✭hoodwinked


    when i bought a car i dumped the bus, before then i used ride them everywhere, all the time.


    haven't gone back since, even the park and ride isn't enough to get me riding buses again.


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  • #61
    Gru
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,350 ✭✭✭Gru


    Ahh the bus, if there's a seat thats not been soaked in urine then I haven't been on it.


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