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Bus Eireann info and delivery black failure

  • 19-12-2016 9:59pm
    #1
    Impetus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭


    I asked the bureaucratically URL'd http://journeyplanner.transportforireland.ie to compute a journey on public transport from Sunday's Well to Cork city centre. Back in the day, there was even a tram service on this route.

    Click on the link below for an 'Irish joke' - you must walk the entire journey, and it spells out the directions for a 2km walk. One wonders if you have to use your "Leap" card to complete this walking journey on Ireland's crappy, over-priced public transport system?

    https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/adpicsxx/fromSundays+Well+to+City+Centre.pdf

    In Switzerland, if you want to 'speak' English and interact with the journey planner you go to rail.ch. If you want to speak French use www.cff.ch etc. It covers all forms of public transport and is high resolution - down to street name and building number, or stop x to stop y.

    This guy went driving in Zurich with his GoPro. Zurich traffic lights give priority to public transport -and it makes the city clear for cars - because 80% of journeys are on public transport. See how fast the lights change to green. If he was driving a tram, it would be 100% green.7

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZGwzEvGZ5c

    (Watch it in 4k video - click on the cogwheel and select 2160p. Notice - no parking on the streets to make space for trams and eliminate side tear.) The traffic signals run on VS-Plus - software developed by https://www.ethz.ch/en.html - no British or Australian crapware as is used in Cork and Dublin...


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  • #2
    foggy_lad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,373 ✭✭✭✭foggy_lad


    There is no direct bus, the best option available is to get the 201 to Model Farm Road(Dennehys cross Church) then cross the road and get the 205 from Model farm road(Dennehys Cross Jctn) to Patrick St(Drawbridge St Jctn).


  • #3
    Impetus
    Registered Users Posts: 1,667 ✭✭✭Impetus


    foggy_lad wrote: »
    There is no direct bus, the best option available is to get the 201 to Model Farm Road(Dennehys cross Church) then cross the road and get the 205 from Model farm road(Dennehys Cross Jctn) to Patrick St(Drawbridge St Jctn).

    Which involves about 2km of walking. In the middle of a city. Pathetic, dysfunctional, corrupt public services, oirish.


  • #4
    Isambard
    Registered Users Posts: 5,796 ✭✭✭Isambard


    according to BE there is a direct bus which stops on Sundays Well Rd by Fitzgerald Park Steps.

    not that frequent, but going to Dennehy's cross would be a long way round....I'd cross th river and get a bus at Gaol Cross if there isn't one in Sunday's Well Rd or walk up to Hollyhill

    2 Km walk might not be possible for everyone remember.


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