BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

The planned bus corridors won't change much on the the Swords, Clongriffen, Lucan or Bray corridors where there is already near continuous bus lane. These routes are planned to have a 3 to 5 minute bus frequency on roads that wont be very different and currently have gaps of 15 mins or more right now. 3 min frequency buses on regular roads is fantasy, the world's most frequent bus services on dedicated roads with absolute priority can just about reach that frequency.

The Blanch QBC will be a big improvement, the south side corridors seem to have been deliberately botched, most wouldn't stand up to any design scrutiny. Why that was done is anyones guess. But I don't see how board planala can approve some of the trash that the NTA submitted.

If we introduced enforcement we could have a significant improvement but government doesn't wanna touch that.

Good stuff.

Yes the rathgar route is good, forgot about it because its been eons since it went to planning. Kimmage is a disaster as is some of the city centre junctions on all the south sode corridors

Well, then it should be!

You always have a simple solution don't you? Do you expect drivers to be Guards too? I'll start spot-checking every passenger that gets on just because you reckon I need to, then I'll point them all to you when the complaints come eh? Or how about we just let people get about their business (that's none of ours to stick our nose into) and everybody except you is happy :)

The IADT students in Dún Laoghaire have voiced their concerns about the loss of the 75 outside the campus to the Irish Independent today. I was reading the article on my phone earlier this evening.

One student had told the paper that she will now have to get three buses each way between her home and the college every day from this Sunday.

I'm assuming in the article that it's a combination of the 46a, either the S6/S8 and the 15.

She also said that the changes to the bus service taking place in that part of Dublin from Sunday will allow her to drive a car in the near future.

The NTA had gave out statements in the article that the new routes would be more frequent than the older orbital routes. They said the S8 will be every 20 minutes at weekdays and the 46a will be every 8 minutes at weekday.

Is that weekday frequency for the 46a during the peak times or is that all day?

Well this comes as a surprise, Google Maps has the new routes loaded in before they start!

W4 and W61/62 also now appear. Times still seem to only show as scheduled, however.

Just using Google Maps on my phone. Some very odd behaviour happening here on the Android app for me.

When I look up the real time info for the L25 route on this app; the 2 bus stops at Annaville Terrace in Newtownpark Avenue don't have the L25 data added into those stops at all. It still just has the info for the 7b & 7d routes only. The new bus stop marking on Benamore Road also doesn't have any data for any bus routes. But most of the other stops have added the new route into them without any problem whatsoever.

Is Dublin Bus going to allow the L25 to stop at Annaville Terrace or is it just going to skip it altogether?

As far as I'm aware, the up to date static data API feed (where all the stops, scheduled trips, etc. are pulled from) only works with the new version of the API, so if they are using it, they must have switched off the realtime info on their own end.

Yep, it was parked on Parnell Square west. Cops got them as far as I know.

Surely they shouldn't be lying buses over in the city centre unattended given the current climate

Those groups of scumbags who are setting buses on fire on the streets of Dublin really are a new level of filth.

Dublin Bus should make those responsible to pay for the damages to their fleet out of the scumbags (or scumbag parents) dole payments to really make them learn a hard lesson.

The first L25 bus from Dún Laoghaire is using an SG this morning.

The first S8 to Citywest is also using an SG as well.

Both buses are in the green/yellow NTA livery.

The route display for the L25 has Dúndrum written in English and Irish.

However no 'via XXXXXX' sign is included underneath it.