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Double decker buses back in Cork

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  • 01-12-2008 4:29pm
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    thejuggler
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    Spotted them twice over the weekend on the Cork Ballincollig route. Badly needed on more city and suburban routes. The number 8 could do with extra capacity too.


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    towel401
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    are these new buses?


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    rotinaj
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    You sure the not the tourist buses?


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    bill_ashmount
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    If the drivers of the number 8 would stop and also leave on time I'd be happy.

    Sick of them.


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    Tazzle
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    KC61 wrote: »
    The first of six new double-decks has indeed entered service on the Ballincollig service.

    Photo is here:
    http://garaiste.yuku.com/topic/7074


    ^^


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    deRanged
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    I grabbed a quick video of one this evening.


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    Tazzle
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    How sad is it really that there are double deckers in Cork and we're "WoOwwoWOWO!!!" Sad state of affairs really.


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    towel401
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    Tazzle wrote: »
    How sad is it really that there are double deckers in Cork and we're "WoOwwoWOWO!!!" Sad state of affairs really.

    not as sad as the london bendibus controversy


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    minidazzler
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    What routes are they on?


    Ye realise the top floor will be just there for scumbags to harrass people?


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    MunsterCycling
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    There was meant to be 10 of these busses but Dublin stole IIRC 5 of them. Disgrace

    MC


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    440Hz
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    towel401 wrote: »
    not as sad as the london bendibus controversy

    Depends on whether or not you like buses really. I enjoyed the bendibus discussions, oh and I still miss the Routemaster!


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    dulpit
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    For people who regularly get buses in Cork, double decker buses are brilliant news... Too many bus routes are jammed at certain times of the day, unless you get on the bus at the bus station or town, you're screwed (no.5 & 8 spring to mind)

    Although we could also do with more buses & bus times on the timetables, and especially better reliability...


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    markok84
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    440Hz wrote: »
    Depends on whether or not you like buses really. I enjoyed the bendibus discussions, oh and I still miss the Routemaster!

    Buses!

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=TT2fZJR9JC0


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    parsi
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    The buses will still be jammed bacause muppets will shuffle down the back and block the stairs and prevent folk going upstairs.

    As sure as eggs are eggs


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    Stargate
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    jez these are NEW , way better looking than the ones we went to school on years ago lol


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    deRanged
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    and a picture:
    3081037310_91ea6d15b5.jpg

    click for big.


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    MunsterCycling
    Registered Users Posts: 4,864 ✭✭✭MunsterCycling


    Do you chase buses for a living?


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    run_Forrest_run
    Registered Users Posts: 6,430 ✭✭✭run_Forrest_run


    best cafe in Cork, best potato pie in Cork, best Chipper in Cork....and now double deckers in Cork...the Cork City forum has reached a new low (or should that be high:rolleyes:)


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    440Hz
    Registered Users Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    run_Forrest_run wrote: »
    best cafe in Cork, best potato pie in Cork, best Chipper in Cork....and now double deckers in Cork...the Cork City forum has reached a new low (or should that be high:rolleyes:)

    It's the recession!!


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    wolfpawnat
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    Alot of the routes like the the numbers 1,2,6,7 wont be able to get them though, I cannot see a double decer bus getting up Donnybrook hill!

    Plus we will have to demand the trees are kept cut in, when I was a kid o the 223 route from Monkstown to the city, the upper deck windows were blown in by a branch on the Rochestown road! Quite a few passengers were very shook up by it!


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    towel401
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    they should put some of these on the #5. what did freaking ballincollig do to deserve these?


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    440Hz
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    Ok slightly OT from Cork buses but... I thought this was funny... the new buses that arrived on a shipment to Dublin from Germany last week, came straight off the ship with the destination board programmed to none other than the hip and happening destination of......

    AM2.jpg

    ABBEYDORNEY hahahah! I guess its an alphabetical thing, but.. Up the Kingdom all the same hehe


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    carchaeologist
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    440Hz wrote: »
    Ok slightly OT from Cork buses but... I thought this was funny... the new buses that arrived on a shipment to Dublin from Germany last week, came straight off the ship with the destination board programmed to none other than the hip and happening destination of......

    ABBEYDORNEY hahahah! I guess its an alphabetical thing, but.. Up the Kingdom all the same hehe
    Haha,brilliant,ill keep an eye out for them passing my place!!


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    #24
    carchaeologist
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    Last sundays top gear....
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AORbyKE-YTo


    Classic!!


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    440Hz
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    Oi you!! Who let you in here! Wrong county ya bogger :p


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    towel401
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    440Hz wrote: »

    ABBEYDORNEY hahahah! I guess its an alphabetical thing, but.. Up the Kingdom all the same hehe

    Abbeydorney is where all the hawt chicks are at


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    440Hz
    Registered Users Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭440Hz


    towel401 wrote: »
    Abbeydorney is where all the hawt chicks are at

    lol!! How much are you being paid to say that?


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    #28
    towel401
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    440Hz wrote: »
    lol!! How much are you being paid to say that?

    the abbeydorney tourism board are paying me an undisclosed sum in a brown envelope.

    gotta love these undisclosed sums. its only when you open it you find out.


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    carchaeologist
    Registered Users Posts: 11,318 ✭✭✭✭carchaeologist


    440Hz wrote: »
    Oi you!! Who let you in here! Wrong county ya bogger :p
    Less of that now!

    Where are the "Hawt chicks"?

    I havent experienced any!!


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    j2hig
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    thejuggler wrote: »
    Spotted them twice over the weekend on the Cork Ballincollig route. Badly needed on more city and suburban routes. The number 8 could do with extra capacity too.

    Apparently the double deckers have problems makin it up the steep hills, cork being in a valley and all and put the engines under extreme stress. Probably because all the old double decker buses where pieces of **** anyway! Places like Ballincollig that are not up these steep hills should definetely get double deckers. Ares like Glanmire, Blarney, Blackrock, Bishopstown etc.
    I think something needs to be done about most bus routes begining from the bus station in the city centre. Whats so wrong with mini bus stations being located in sub urbs?


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    E92
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,147 ✭✭✭E92


    j2hig wrote: »
    Apparently the double deckers have problems makin it up the steep hills, cork being in a valley and all and put the engines under extreme stress.

    No what actually happened is that Cork was promised 12 double deckers but as you'd expect with Bus Éireann, they decided that some of the buses we were promised would now go to Dublin instead meaning that we are only getting half the number we were promised:mad:!

    That story above is almost certainly the greatest load of cock and bull ever and is probably being made up by BÉ as an "excuse" for the fact that we're not getting what we were promised.

    Remember that BÉ's justification for getting rid of double deckers from Cork "because the EU was banning them" and there were no more being made, I think we all know how true that is:rolleyes:.


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