Foxrock village/Dun Laoghaire bus service

Stephen15 wrote: »

I hear there is a petition in foxrock village to get a better bus service to go into the village not bad idea considering most villages in dublin have a bus service in them foxrock only has one 63 a day in either direction serving to get elderly residents to dun laoghaire and back it would probably make sense to have the 63 going through the village rather it's current routing up cornelscourt hill. One disadvantage would be the rude and obnoxious parking especially during school times around Mart Lane. Even have every second 63 serve foxrock village. Thoughts?

4 is the most I have ever seen use the via fox rock trip.

Banjoxed wrote: »

Grotesquely inconvenient services are hardly an accurate indication of potential usage.

Given the population along Cornelscourt Hill Road and in the adjoining estates is much larger and more likely to require a bus service than that along the route through Foxrock I think the bus takes the right route.

The vast majority of people living along the route via Foxrock, let's be honest, are living in very expensive houses and will have access to a car. That being said, the via Foxrock buses are timed quite deliberately to facilitate elderly people who want to go to/from Dún Laoghaire. Hardly grotesquely inconvenient when designed for a particular market.

The old route 63 had very low usage on that section. That to me is another indication that it takes the correct route.

liger wrote: »

The service supplied is a direct response to the service demanded

I recall,many years back,a retiring Driver of long service on the 63,telling me that the timetable,on the old City Centre-Glenamuck service,was considerably influenced by the travelling patterns of the sizeable numbers of Domestic Staff employed in the Foxrock/Westminster Road area.