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The Dublin Coach Experience

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    #392
    s14driftking
    Registered Users Posts: 646 ✭✭✭s14driftking


    2 being towed up the m7 yesterday. One by keoghs the other by Corcoran’s.
    Had a run in with one of these during the week he completely cut me up on the red cow roundabout I barely missed him by inches with the truck. Complained on there Facebook page but they don’t seem to bothered.


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    #393
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    john boye wrote: »
    Had to laugh at a pathetic dig from a DB driver on College Green one evening during the week. Traffic was absolutely rammed at Trinity for a while but eventually a bus got through. When he got to the stop an old woman getting on asked him what was going on at Trinity and he said "Ye know them yellow tour buses? Well they're blocking up College St and we can't get through". I just said "they're gone weeks mate" and he said nothing.

    They still have the old London bus tours going though, maybe he meant the red one as they do double park just at the bend onto dame st, along with taxi, deliveries, cars etc etc


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    #394
    john boye
    Registered Users Posts: 1,492 ✭✭✭john boye


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    They still have the old London bus tours going though, maybe he meant the red one as they do double park just at the bend onto dame st, along with taxi, deliveries, cars etc etc

    Yeah I did wonder if he meant the routemasters but I had walked up by College st a few minutes before and there was nothing stopped there. In fairness, There could well have been something blocking up Nassau St that I couldn't see but he specifically said College St.


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    #395
    tabbey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭tabbey


    s14driftking wrote: »
    Had a run in with one of these during the week he completely cut me up on the red cow roundabout I barely missed him by inches with the truck.

    Red Cow roundabout has been gone many years.

    If you have to post fiction, please make it credible.


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    #396
    Quackster
    Moderators, Regional South Moderators Posts: 5,735 Mod ✭✭✭✭Quackster


    tabbey wrote: »
    s14driftking wrote: »
    Had a run in with one of these during the week he completely cut me up on the red cow roundabout I barely missed him by inches with the truck.

    Red Cow roundabout has been gone many years.

    If you have to post fiction, please make it credible.
    :rolleyes:


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    #397
    thelad95
    Registered Users Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    Yet another bus broken down today on the Ormonde Road in Kilkenny, I think there’s a certain trend emerging here!


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    #398
    boardsuser1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    thelad95 wrote: »
    Yet another bus broken down today on the Ormonde Road in Kilkenny, I think there’s a certain trend emerging here!

    Setra?


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    #399
    liam7831
    Registered Users Posts: 2,817 ✭✭✭liam7831


    Cork Truck Driver wrote:
    Setra?

    No Ormond Rd


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    #400
    end of the road
    Registered Users Posts: 28,984 ✭✭✭✭end of the road


    liam7831 wrote: »
    No Ormond Rd

    was the bus that broke down one of the setras dublin coach operate?

    ticking a box on a form does not make you of a religion.



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    #401
    boardsuser1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    end of the road wrote: »
    was the bus that broke down one of the setras dublin coach operate?

    Thank you :D


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    #402
    thelad95
    Registered Users Posts: 7,812 ✭✭✭thelad95


    04 setra


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    #403
    boardsuser1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    thelad95 wrote: »
    04 setra

    Why am I not surprised :rolleyes:

    Those things are seriously beyond their best before date.

    3/4 million kilometres and the rest on them by now.


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    #404
    s14driftking
    Registered Users Posts: 646 ✭✭✭s14driftking


    tabbey wrote: »
    Red Cow roundabout has been gone many years.

    If you have to post fiction, please make it credible.

    No fiction. Red cow interchange or whatever it’s called now. I was coming from city centre they were coming from m50. I was in the second lane coming from the city with a car on my inside and he just cut in front of us.


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    #405
    JeffK88
    Registered Users Posts: 627 ✭✭✭JeffK88


    While in no way defending the drivers actions as clearly he was in the wrong that particular exit into Red Cow luas is very poorly designed for traffic coming from the M50. Ive been on many a bus that pretty much had to come to a halt in order to change across two lanes in such a short distance.


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    #406
    nilescraneo
    Closed Accounts Posts: 90 ✭✭nilescraneo


    M50/N7 interchange is a joke public transport wise alright, no priority for busses going city bound. Bus is regularly delayed 5-8 minutes in the mornings trying to access ****ty bus lane which cars exiting the M50 block. The whole Red Cow Luas station design is a disaster as well.


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    #407
    tabbey
    Registered Users Posts: 1,943 ✭✭✭tabbey


    nilescraneo wrote: »
    M50/N7 interchange is a joke public transport wise alright, no priority for busses going city bound. Bus is regularly delayed 5-8 minutes in the mornings trying to access ****ty bus lane which cars exiting the M50 block. The whole Red Cow Luas station design is a disaster as well.

    Yes, we could have a park and ride nearby, capable of taking thousands of cars.

    Bus priority, legally enforced, would be the single biggest improvement in bus travel, not just in Dublin, but throughout the country.


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    #408
    boardsuser1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    Another breakdown today.

    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1962165954022117&set=gm.1229582170519272&type=3&theater&ifg=1


    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1962172544021458&set=p.1962172544021458&type=3&theater&ifg=1


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    #409
    devnull
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 11,584 Mod ✭✭✭✭devnull


    They're two different coaches.

    One is a Setra and the other is one of the 'new' 2009 Vanhool deckers.


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    #410
    boardsuser1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    devnull wrote: »
    They're two different coaches.

    One is a Setra and the other is one of the 'new' 2009 Vanhool deckers.

    Yeah, i actually edited the post,strange why the vanhool bit didn't appear, that one was last week, the setra was today.


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    #411
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Anyone else see a pussy when they opened the 2nd link.....


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    #412
    boardsuser1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    Anyone else see a pussy when they opened the 2nd link.....

    Filthy boy :pac:


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    #413
    punisher5112
    Registered Users Posts: 24,647 ✭✭✭✭punisher5112


    Cork Truck Driver wrote: »
    Filthy boy :pac:

    I'm sorry I couldn't hold it in;-)


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    #414
    brokenarms
    Registered Users Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭brokenarms


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    I'm sorry I couldn't hold it in;-)

    Ginger as well ..


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    #415
    Odyssey 2005
    Registered Users Posts: 21,065 ✭✭✭✭Odyssey 2005


    punisher5112 wrote: »
    I'm sorry I couldn't hold it in;-)

    Said the actress to the bishop. :)


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    #416
    boardsuser1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    A rare compliment for Dublin Coach

    https://twitter.com/Shannon_RFC/status/936999158963167232


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    #417
    devnull
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 11,584 Mod ✭✭✭✭devnull


    Well the 2014 Mercedes coaches would be a lot better than the majority of the fleet!

    But those are the newest vehicles that are used on ROI routes (2016 and 2017 ones are used exclusively on Belfast and Tours) and often a few of the 2014 coaches are on private hires rather than on scheduled services


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    #418
    boardsuser1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,196 ✭✭✭boardsuser1


    devnull wrote: »
    Well the 2014 Mercedes coaches would be a lot better than the majority of the fleet!

    But those are the newest vehicles that are used on ROI routes (2016 and 2017 ones are used exclusively on Belfast and Tours) and often a few of the 2014 coaches are on private hires rather than on scheduled services

    They wouldn't dare use Setra's on a private hire.

    People would still be waiting to get home from a breakdown.

    The tourismo's have broken down,but these reports are few and far between compared to the rest of the fleet.


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    #419
    devnull
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 11,584 Mod ✭✭✭✭devnull


    Cork Truck Driver wrote: »
    They wouldn't dare use Setra's on a private hire.

    That's my point.

    They've been running a two tier operation for a good while now, they present an image of a very young, modern fleet on their tours, Belfast route and private hires but most of their regular scheduled services couldn't be more different.


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    #420
    kerryked
    Registered Users Posts: 627 ✭✭✭kerryked


    Blue Dublin Coach broken down just outside UL this evening around 7


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    #421
    s14driftking
    Registered Users Posts: 646 ✭✭✭s14driftking


    Cork Truck Driver wrote: »
    A rare compliment for Dublin Coach

    https://twitter.com/Shannon_RFC/status/936999158963167232

    Two buses one spare in case the other breaks down🀣🀣🀣


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