Comments on: Big changes coming to Dublin Bus

By: aideen

aideen — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:18:17 +0000

Hi Karen as a commuter from the celbridge area on dublin bus i could not agree with you more you would nearly be in another country with the time it takes some of buses to get into the city centre, and the times in between the buses is ridiculous it can take 30 minutes for a bus to get from maynooth to celbridge and if they extend the 67 into maynooth as planned it will longer waiting times for buses if they turn up! There is very little information on the dublin bus website re the changes to the 67 route I am afraid it does not look promising for a better service for the commuters on dublin bus in the celbridge area.

By: Dec

Dec — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:31:51 +0000

Dublin Bus rep on The Last Word. Routes will be straightened and will run more frequently with less busses. She also claimed that no one will be more than a 10 minute walk from a bus stop. Matt Cooper responded saying Dublin Bus was trying to achieve the miracle of the loaves and fishes.

The more I hear of this the less sense it makes but we have to wait and see the final plan before we can make sense of what they are saying.

By: Karen

Karen — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 15:47:23 +0000

I read this announcement about Dublin Bus with DREAD this morning. Christ on a bike, they’re going to ‘do more with less buses’. HOW!?!

Like you said it’ll mean moving bus stops, cutting the ends of routes, not going into housing estates etc. And buses every five minutes? My eye!

My route is the 67/a which you might remember was the cause of some controversy with the Morton’s private bus company, which had been trying to run a service out to Celbridge. They claimed Dublin Bus put on loads more buses to put them out of business and they eventually withdrew from the route. But as a regular bus user, I didn’t see ANY evidence of any extra buses! I was STILL waiting an hour for a bus, sometimes even at peak times. So this ‘bus every five minutes’ thing doesn’t fill me with confidence cos I know well it won’t be on my route.

It’ll only be on the sexy routes like the 46a or the 10 and the ordinary suburban dweller (very bloody suburban, I’m in Kildare) will be left in the cold. Again.