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New Dublin Bus Route to feed Luas @ Broombridge

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  • #92
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,240 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    https://twitter.com/RoisinShortall/status/1027953077909946368


  • #93
    Jamie2k9
    Registered Users Posts: 10,667 ✭✭✭✭Jamie2k9


    Remain skeptical about this bus route, more of a political route than one that has any great demand. Is it going to be worth people's while doing a bus/luas into town when there is a direct bus which will probably be more frequent.


  • #94
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    Remain skeptical about this bus route, more of a political route than one that has any great demand. Is it going to be worth people's while doing a bus/luas into town when there is a direct bus which will probably be more frequent.

    I suppose the argument for it is that it would provide a link between Finglas and the Southside to the likes of Ranelagh, Dundrum and Sandyford without people having to take a bus into the city centre and also to the Maynooth line. I don't think the demand is that huge for this considering the 140 also provides a link between Finglas and Broadstone Luas Stop.


  • #95
    PhoenixParker
    Registered Users Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭PhoenixParker


    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    Remain skeptical about this bus route, more of a political route than one that has any great demand. Is it going to be worth people's while doing a bus/luas into town when there is a direct bus which will probably be more frequent.

    I think it's more for people looking to access Ballycoolin then to go the other way.

    It'll be a slow burner but I think it'll get busy if it provides a decent luas/elsewhere - workplace connection for people.

    The new stop on Ballyboggan/ratoath road for instance gives anyone living in Ashtown/RCP a decent link to Ballycoolin for the first time.


  • #96
    Lord Glentoran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭Lord Glentoran


    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    Remain skeptical about this bus route, more of a political route than one that has any great demand. Is it going to be worth people's while doing a bus/luas into town when there is a direct bus which will probably be more frequent.

    If the direct bus gets snarled up in traffic then clearly no.


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  • #97
    cgcsb
    Registered Users Posts: 9,271 ✭✭✭cgcsb


    One year from now we'll be getting ready to completely abandon the current network in it's entirety and Broombridge will become a sort of bus hub anyway. Why implement a new bus service that'll last 12 months?


  • #98
    cgcsb
    Registered Users Posts: 9,271 ✭✭✭cgcsb


    Today there's been hints of a Broombride SDZ:


    https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/dublin-industrial-estates-could-be-rezoned-for-homes-1.3594127


  • #99
    Stephen15
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    cgcsb wrote: »
    One year from now we'll be getting ready to completely abandon the current network in it's entirety and Broombridge will become a sort of bus hub anyway. Why implement a new bus service that'll last 12 months?

    It'll two to three years at least I'd say before bus connects route plans are implemented it will definitely be more than a year.


  • #100
    Stephen15
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    I suspect if the service is going to be introduced on schedule on the 7th October like the NTA have been saying that the timetables will be published this weekend in order to give the public two weeks notice of the new service. I would also hope any new bus stops are taken the same the same as the new TFI stops that are up now along the 175 route rather than DB stops.


  • #101
    Stevek101
    Registered Users Posts: 1,281 ✭✭✭Stevek101


    I highly doubt this route will ever get the green light.


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  • #102
    PhoenixParker
    Registered Users Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭PhoenixParker


    Stevek101 wrote: »
    I highly doubt this route will ever get the green light.

    A very similar route is included in bus connects so I’m hopeful.
    Not so hopeful that it’ll start in two weeks with so little info forthcoming though.


  • #103
    PhoenixParker
    Registered Users Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭PhoenixParker


    Based on this, they announce one week in advance

    http://www.dublinbus.ie/News-Centre/General-News-Archive/Introduction-of-three-new-routes-serving-DCU/


  • #104
    Lord Glentoran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭Lord Glentoran


    Jamie2k9 wrote: »
    Remain skeptical about this bus route, more of a political route than one that has any great demand. Is it going to be worth people's while doing a bus/luas into town when there is a direct bus which will probably be more frequent.

    Yay! I’m on a bus.

    Yay! I’m stuck in traffic. What a nice bus, and such pretty patterns the condensation makes as it runs down the window.


  • #105
    Technocentral
    Registered Users Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    20180926_083143.jpg

    This morning at Broombridge.


  • #106
    Lord Glentoran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭Lord Glentoran


    Technocentral wrote: »
    20180926_083143.jpg

    This morning at Broombridge.

    What a marked improvement over what was there before.


  • #107
    Technocentral
    Registered Users Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    Lord Glentoran wrote: »
    Technocentral wrote: »
    20180926_083143.jpg

    This morning at Broombridge.

    What a marked improvement over what was there before.

    Regressive step imo.


  • #108
    Stephen15
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,907 ✭✭✭Stephen15


    Technocentral wrote: »
    Regressive step imo.

    Why so?


  • #109
    Technocentral
    Registered Users Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    Luas packed in the morning already, traffic backed up and terrible on the proposed bus route, stupid idea.


  • #110
    PhoenixParker
    Registered Users Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭PhoenixParker


    I'd anticipate as much traffic going the other way, ie out to ballycoolin, on this route as heading to connect into town.


  • #111
    Lord Glentoran
    Closed Accounts Posts: 876 ✭✭✭Lord Glentoran


    Technocentral wrote: »
    Regressive step imo.

    Oh Jaysus a BANANA (Build absolutely nothing anywhere near anything)


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  • #112
    prettyboy81
    Registered Users Posts: 2,579 ✭✭✭prettyboy81


    News must be due to break soon on Timetable, Route, etc.


  • #113
    Stephen15
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    Technocentral wrote: »
    Luas packed in the morning already, traffic backed up and terrible on the proposed bus route, stupid idea.

    I don't know how many will use this service for a full time commute though. Most people will continue to use direct buses into the city centre for commuting it could however get good loads off peak with people from Finglas wishing to travel to the southside. Also could be a handy link for students going NUI as they could connect with the Maynooth train in Broombridge.

    I don't think the route really justifies double deckers mind you it would probably be better off if it was operated by Go-Ahead using their single deckers.


  • #114
    madnessnmayhem
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭madnessnmayhem


    Any idea when 40e going to operate?


  • #115
    Technocentral
    Registered Users Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    The luas is jam packed by the second stop after Broombridge , ridiculous idea to bus more to Broombridge, only when frequency is doubled should it be considered.


  • #116
    PhoenixParker
    Registered Users Posts: 2,671 ✭✭✭PhoenixParker


    The buses move away from Broombridge too. This will be a useful service for peole working in Ballycoolin.

    Wish they'd get their act together already!


  • #117
    MJohnston
    Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    Technocentral wrote: »
    The luas is jam packed by the second stop after Broombridge , ridiculous idea to bus more to Broombridge, only when frequency is doubled should it be considered.

    As someone who regularly gets on the Luas at Cabra during peak hours, you're talking nonsense. There's always a good bit of room until Marlborough, at which point lots of people have gotten off at Dominick anyway.


  • #118
    Technocentral
    Registered Users Posts: 6,101 ✭✭✭Technocentral


    MJohnston wrote: »
    Technocentral wrote: »
    The luas is jam packed by the second stop after Broombridge , ridiculous idea to bus more to Broombridge, only when frequency is doubled should it be considered.

    As someone who regularly gets on the Luas at Cabra during peak hours, you're talking nonsense. There's always a good bit of room until Marlborough, at which point lots of people have gotten off at Dominick anyway.

    I get it between 7.50 and 8.30 or so every morning and its jammed, you're talking nonsense.


  • #119
    MJohnston
    Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    Technocentral wrote: »
    I get it between 7.50 and 8.30 or so every morning and its jammed, you're talking nonsense.


    That's about the same time I get it (usually more on the 8.30 side), and it's never more than 3/4 full by the time it reaches Dominick. Plenty of room for a bus load of passengers. If you want to see what 'jammed' really looks like, try getting on at Harcourt at 5pm.


  • #120
    madnessnmayhem
    Registered Users Posts: 188 ✭✭madnessnmayhem


    Spoken with a bus driver, he informed me that 40e will commence sometime in Novmeber as the 17a is going to GA so that will free up some drivers to drive new 40e


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  • #121
    MJohnston
    Registered Users Posts: 10,501 ✭✭✭✭MJohnston


    Can someone tell me is there an actual logic to the numbering of DB routes? Like what does the 40E have to do with the 40 or 40B? 40D at least starts from the same location, but the other two have no real connection, other than they vaguely go into completely different parts of Finglas.


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