BusConnects Dublin - Big changes to Bus Network

Stoneybatter board outbound

Tonight

Has the 37 now gone 24hr? surely a mistake?

Not much of Europe has a functioning housing system anymore. Maybe Vienna if you're a citizen.

Doesn't have to be particularly tall, a lot of apartments in cities like Paris are 5-6 storeys high (I mean the older inner suburbs, not the sink estate banlieues). Costs go up the higher you go. But we have crazy stuff like bungalows within a mile of O'Connell St.

When we tried high-rise in Ballymun the density was still low due to lots of ill-considered wide open spaces which were supposedly amenities but turned into the opposite. IIRC they were easily able to fit the same population into the area using 2-storey houses and duplexes.

I'd also add the N8 route, for obvious reasons. Not sure about W4 tho, its main draw is connecting Blanch, Liffey and the Square with the residential areas around all three. Doesn't really act as feeder for city buses either

Seen a few newly marked bus stops on the S2 & S4.

Some are better, e.g. Kylemore Road beside McDonalds, new bus bay is much closer to the Luas Stop.

Somewhat worried that the new Bus Bay halfway up the Drimnagh Road near the Costa/Boots will be used only by the S4, which will then likely no longer stop at the Black Forge.

But surely we can rely on the Bus Connects team to deliver seamless interchange between bus routes?

I live on this route and am excited to see it it place... When it happens I'll have a 24h bus hiome from town, no more taxi's! Plus easier to get in/out of town... Theres too many cars in the area & the cars are too big! Brennanstown Road has become a permanaent traffic jam, with people using it as a rat run. It's a 300 year old lane built for carts, and Mary in her Range Rover wants to blast up it on both sides of the white line!

Sometimes people need to be told to cop the **** on and get rid of the cars!

I've just sent an email of support to on that link... is that enough?

The only thing I feel that is wrong with the Bus Connects program, is that it was started to early, with the impact of Covid19 lockdowns on driver training. I think that Transport For Ireland should have waited for Dublin Bus and GoAhead Ireland, to start back up their driver training, before implementing the first phase of the Bus Connects program. As the first phase saw an increase in the number of buses on the routes that were started on in that phase, from the number of buses that were on the routes that they replaced. For exmaple: the route 29A used to have 3 buses a hour during the day time off peak, were with the H1 this increased to 4 buses a hour. Plus this 4 buses a hour continues later into the evening til about 23:00, were the 29A service was reduced in the evening from the daytime timetable.

Do you know when the N8 is going to be started?

We'd be fully dead of old age then

No we wanted, as they have already started to train bus drivers again last year.