New Ballymun to Bray Bus Announced

Stephen15 · 21-01-2019 1:12am

What sort of route will this take through the city centre I wonder? Will it turn right onto Molesworth Street then down Kildare Street and around by Pearse and Tara Street and over to O'Connell Bridge like the 145 or will it take the same route as the 46a by Nassau Street, Grafton Street and College Green hopefully the latter.

p_haugh · 21-01-2019 1:01pm

Stephen15 wrote: »

What sort of route will this take through the city centre I wonder? Will it turn right onto Molesworth Street then down Kildare Street and around by Pearse and Tara Street and over to O'Connell Bridge like the 145 or will it take the same route as the 46a by Nassau Street, Grafton Street and College Green hopefully the latter.

I saw somewhere that it's gonna go through college Green like the 46a. Can't recall where I saw that info though.

patrickbrophy18 · 20-02-2019 11:23pm

There appears to be no word on this route which is supposedly being introduced this month!

Stephen15 · 20-02-2019 11:30pm

patrickbrophy18 wrote: »

There appears to be no word on this route which is supposedly being introduced this month!

It's not starting until the 24th March as the 18 and 76/a switching over to GAI has been delayed until then.

Stephen15 · 07-03-2019 10:02pm

Has been announced officially and is starting on the 24th March. I'm looking to it starting as the 145 can be hit and miss especially in the evenings and can suffer from overcrowding.

http://www.dublinbus.ie/Your-Journey1/Timetables/All-Timetables/181/

KD345 · 07-03-2019 10:59pm

Stephen15 wrote: »

Has been announced officially and is starting on the 24th March. I'm looking to it starting as the 145 can be hit and miss especially in the evenings and can suffer from overcrowding.

http://www.dublinbus.ie/Your-Journey1/Timetables/All-Timetables/181/

This will be good to fill any gaps in the 145. Bray station will be a busy place for buses again.

Interview with Dublin Bus on the new route here. https://www.98fm.com/podcasts/on-the-move/episode-1-dublin-bus-irish-rail

acquiescefc · 08-03-2019 7:56am

and zero enhancement to 140.

complete and utter joke

p_haugh · 08-03-2019 9:47am

Overall I'm happy this route is coming in, will also mean I'll have a door to door link to college.
Will be interesting to see just how much time it'll save me compared to changing buses in town :rolleyes:

loyatemu · 08-03-2019 10:19am

DB still need to sort out their Google Maps license - it's been broken for months now.

p_haugh · 08-03-2019 10:37am

loyatemu wrote: »

DB still need to sort out their Google Maps license - it's been broken for months now.

The transport database in Google maps also needs to be updated badly.
None of the routes that have gone to GAI or even any recent DB timetable changes are present.

Irish Steve · 09-03-2019 3:21pm

loyatemu wrote: »

DB still need to sort out their Google Maps license - it's been broken for months now.

As is Bus Eireann, clearly they too don't care about providing meaningful information to their potential users.

I have tried to engage with them on a number of occasions, it's a one way street, they don't even acknowledge e-mails, let alone reply to them.

Bluntly, given the way they are operating, their licence to operate some routes should be withdrawn and given to a company that will provide an acceptable service,

Stephen15 · 24-03-2019 12:49pm

Now up and running
https://twitter.com/dublinbusnews/status/1109754360832102400?s=19

Breezer · 25-03-2019 5:46pm

Teething problems. Thought I'd fly out to Bray on this thing since people wouldn't be familiar and wouldn't hail it. Nope. Put off it at Donnybrook because the driver taking over is MIA. Two 145s overtook us before they decided the driver wasn't going to appear.

Edit: Wait, no, ten minutes later they've found one and we're all back on it

Stephen15 · 28-03-2019 12:15am

Used this for the first time the other night from UCD to Cabinteely a bit of a let down as I waited 20 minutes for either a 155 or 145 not one 46a passed either in the mean time only for two 155s and a 46a to show up all at once and a 145 one minute behind according to RTPI more needs to be done about bus bunching.

As for the bus itself was surprised to see an AX show up which felt like it's seen better days. I personally couldn't care less what type of bus is used now myself but it's certainly felt like a lot worse than the SGs I've now become accustomed too was loud and it felt quite slow and sluggish and you could certainly feel the buses age.

You'd think for a new route that trying encourage more passengers new buses would be allocated considering Donnybrook is still allocating it's SGs to some of it's lesser routes such as the 44, 61 and 84. Surprised the NTA isin't mandating dual door buses to it like other cross city routes.

prettyboy81 · 28-03-2019 1:37pm

I haven't gotten this bus yet but noticed at Stop 195 yesterday, the RPI was not displaying the 155 but yet it showed up at the bus stop. The system must be slow to integrate new routes.

p_haugh · 28-03-2019 4:12pm

prettyboy81 wrote: »

I haven't gotten this bus yet but noticed at Stop 195 yesterday, the RPI was not displaying the 155 but yet it showed up at the bus stop. The system must be slow to integrate new routes.

It's up and working on the RTPI. I'd say that was just the RTPI not accounting for the bus being late due to traffic/the RTPI having its usual issues.

p_haugh · 28-03-2019 4:15pm

I've gotten the 155 to and from college (Stillorgan area - DCU) every day this week and it's shaved roughly 15 minutes off my commute.
Now, that could be partly due to the fact that no one knows about this bus as it isn't stopping as often, but I'll take the quicker journey while it lasts XD

loyatemu · 29-03-2019 10:50am

p_haugh wrote: »

I've gotten the 155 to and from college (Stillorgan area - DCU) every day this week and it's shaved roughly 15 minutes off my commute.
Now, that could be partly due to the fact that no one knows about this bus as it isn't stopping as often, but I'll take the quicker journey while it lasts XD

how long is it taking?

StreetLight · 29-03-2019 12:05pm

p_haugh wrote: »

Now, that could be partly due to the fact that no one knows about this bus as it isn't stopping as often, but I'll take the quicker journey while it lasts XD

Gas how many bus users are creatures of habit.

There have been complaints for a long time about capacity issues along the Stillorgan and Ballymun corridors, but when Route 155 is designed to address that very issue, they ignore it - even though the bus displays "via O'Connell Street" on the front.

I was on a 40 towards Finglas recently. A man waved down the bus at Glasnevin Cemetery and got off at Old Finglas Road. Nothing wrong with that, except there was a 40d immediately in front the whole time, yet the man specifically wanted the 40.

Some people just can't (or won't) be helped.

p_haugh · 29-03-2019 5:25pm

loyatemu wrote: »

how long is it taking?

Around 50-55 minutes. When I had to change buses in town it would take 1 hour 10 minutes at least.
Today, for instance, I got on the 155 at 9:05 and got into DCU at 9:55.

New Ballymun to Bray Bus Announced

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