BusConnects Dublin - Big changes to Bus Network

Complete nonsense and false advertising yes, but very Irish, as Irish as can be. You'll recall 2009 when the leap card was launched as an 'integrated ticket'. Of course the fares were only actually integrated in 2020 and by that time were alresdy obsolete by international standards as contactless payment with any debit card was being rolled out across the world.

They are all located in the Liffey Valley amenity area, not suitable for development.

Restoration of Farmleigh Bridge is an option.

The bus lane alongside Krispy Kreme and McDonalds drive thru in Blanch towards Blakestown must have the greatest number of bus lane rule offenders in Ireland! It is constantly packed with cars. They also make it difficult by rarely yielding for motorists who try to observe the bus lane rules to change into the correct left turn or straight lane where the bus lane ends.

Some of the bus stops for this have now been installed, they're a quick-build style similar to the ones installed on Carysfort Avenue in Blackrock.

Fine I guess for the trial, but hopefully if this route is successful and becomes a permanent feature, they will come back and install some proper bus stops. There is plenty of space on Chesterfield Ave, with the massive hatched area running down the middle of the road (as can be seen in the photo).

Some utterly bizarre stop announcements on the G2. St Mark's on the Fonthill Road announced as "Kennelsfort Road" and the stop outside Ronanstown Garda Station as simply "Lucan". Who decides these?

Sorry, but that design is atrocious. If a bus lines up the centre alighting door with the platform, it will leave the front boarding door some metres forward of the platform, beyond the queue of intending passengers. Conversely, if the bus lines up the front door with the platform, those disembarking from the centre doors are stepping down into the cycle lane with the potential for a collision.

Whoever designed that hasn't got a clue.

Go-ahead seem pretty lax for their stop announcements too, especially when it comes to updating them. A stop on the N11 just after the Mount Merrion Avenue junction (Sycamore Crescent) was moved 100m north, to be opposite the petrol station there, with a new name of Greenfield Road. This happened back in 2019, around when Go-ahead took over the 17 if I recall.

*To this day*, the stop announcements on the 17 still say Sycamore Crescent, whereas Dublin Bus updated their stop announcements within a couple of weeks of the stop moving!

Yep that too!

I remember in July 2018, the talk around the office was that there was no need to say "sorry" that the bus is not in service. That it wouldn't be the way that Go-Ahead operated in the Brighton area.

As for the via x thing. They looked at that and said it was difficult to implement through the software they had available. While the NTA do not have an eye for detail, GAI and themselves are quick to point the finger at the other party when something is not up scratch. Same as DB.

The "via X" thing is a remnant of the way DB format the data, which must have been hardcoded into the Dublin AVL system, yet they decided to probably drop it. To be perfectly honest I found it annoying that it doesn't drop or advance the via point as the bus progresses along the route, something readily available in for example the Polish R&G system (it handles either two destination text changes or two destination texts under one destination code, I can never remember which), which, in my closest example, led to the Blanch-bound 17A announcing they're via Beaumont Hospital while plying along Cappagh Road, the hospital a good 30-40 minutes behind it.

Currently waiting at stop 2010 for a bus, and noticed the timetable was updated and has a print date of August 2023. Only thing is it's a Dublin Bus timetable, even though the stop is served by the 17? It previously had a TFI timetable. Could be in advance of the S6 starting, but weird none the less given itll need to be replaced anyways when it does!

Probably not the place for it, but my local bus stop has a printed timetable on it, but it's showing the departures from the opposite terminus. I have reported it to the relevant department but it hasn't been changed yet.

Yeah that's what I figured it was doing, surprised it's a training school bus that they're using for it though

Aesys displays are clearer and look better than Hannover imo