BusConnects Dublin - Big changes to Bus Network

The statement is technically correct.... assuming you're getting the limited service 76a on a weekday or getting the L51 to wards adamstown and switching to the L52😂

A fully enclosed shelter might attract the wrong sort

Plenty of room on the tarmac area where the cars and trucks used to queue up and convert the ferry terminal itself into office use. Obviously you'd want to tie it in with the DART station.

Re the late 84, no idea about that particular departure but any route running through Bray is at the mercy of the gridlock gods.

you don't have to go to Eindhoven to find an example, there's a similar screen in Pearse Station showing all the nearby bus stops (possibly Connolly too).

someone mentioned it above, a coffee dock would do a bomb at that bus interchange - IDK how far you have to walk into the shopping centre to get a coffee though, maybe there's one nearby.

What I have heard is that the NTA are opposing that effort for a connection to Adamstown citing a perceived negative of creating a temporary connection that will be later taken away. (replaced with the original plan.)

This frankly is a pathetic position to take and at total odds with the national strategy towards sustainable transport and the recently approved GDA transport strategy that is largely based on intermodal connectivity. Given that the engineering works at Hazelhatch are years away from completion (going by the NTA's own testimony at the transport committee), refusing to implement a practically simple solution to connect a rapidly growing, and car dependent area of the capital to a high capacity rail service, just because people might whinge down the line shows a chronic level of ambition and goes a long ways to explain why progress on transport in Ireland is so slow.

Implement the temporary connection to Adamstown now, publicly warn people its temporary so potential future whingers don't have a leg to stand on, and then have all the time in the world to work on the bridge at HH. In the meantime, starting from now thousands of people for first time have the option of commuting by rail without also using a car.

There's a Starbucks right opposite it and countless other food and beverage options further into the shopping centre. If a majority of the interchange passengers are shoppers, I'd imagine they'll have made food or drink purchases prior to making their way to buses home. Not sure how many transit pax would want a coffee in the hopefully few minutes they need to wait between switching buses. A hot/cold drinks and snacks vending machine would probably be a more viable option here.

Spotted this on Twitter and smiled, Build it and they will come.

''01:30am and the number 15 bus home is nearly full.

Not a nitelink, just an ordinary route running 24 hours.

I hope every bus route in Dublin will have this eventually @dublinbusnews''

Come to think of it, would it not make sense for the NTA to just go ahead and launch a full W6 route that routes via Adamstown, using the newly opened Celbridge to Adamstown link road? It may arguably be even better than the route via Hazelhatch as it would open up valuable direct links between Adamstown and Celbridge/Newcastle/Tallaght/Maynooth and would provide Peamount Hospital with proper public transport links to the wider area for the first time. It would also be a far better use of limited resources rather than two disjointed routes.

Don't see it mentioned on this thread, but I just noticed that TFI have submitted a planning application for a bus interchange at the Red Cow Luas - no documents uploaded yet though : https://planning.agileapplications.ie/southdublin/application-details/63798

That's kind of genius actually. That would meet all the objectives of the original alignment and makes the route even more useful.

Gas a few years ago Dublin Bus would tell you that no one wanted to use a bus after 11:30 at night. On a serious note, what can be done here? There struggling with drivers as it is.

There's still the S4 and W2 to come along, but that's just a restructuring of the section of the 76 between Tallaght and Ballyfermot - S4 will continue on towards UCD after Ballyfermot, using sections of the 18 and 17, along with some sections of currently unserved areas.

The 80 will just be a renumbering of the 26 and then extended from town to Balinteer (essentially replacing the 14 from town to Balinteer).

There's also the W4, which is the new route from Tallaght that will link Liffey Valley with Blanch via the m50, but that will use the stops on the N4 and not the new interchange.

So there's no more "new" routes incoming per say, just renumbering and some new areas served.

It wasnt built purely for increasing passenger numbers.

The previous terminus wasn't fit for purpose. Buses were barely able to pull in to let people off/on due to other buses laying over and there was barely any sheltered areas for the number of people using it.

The new interchange is a lot closer to the main areas of the shopping centre and also the bus stops on the N4, and they will be even closer once the Lucan CBC project is complete.

People's observations are usually very poor and lack of scientific proof. So whoever see a few samples and make a decision is irrelevant. These routes don't bring people to/from LV only. They just happen to terminate at this location to make good connections due to a good location. But buses doesn't have to leave and come packed to LV as they serve many other areas through the whole stretch of the route.