Bus Strike

John Mason

hey des, any of those stops near me ?

oh just seen jamestown road, thats kinda miles away

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Don't think so, no.

John Mason

i suppose its not too bad probably about a 30 min walk

January

The 19 stops on Ballygal Road across from Canice's School if you don't want to walk all the way to the top of Jamestown Road to get the bus...

John Mason

adrieanne__x wrote: »

The 19 stops on Ballygal Road across from Canice's School if you don't want to walk all the way to the top of Jamestown Road to get the bus...

thank adrienne

i dont actually know where that is:o:o:o

i will have a look on the map

January

If you pass the Credit Union in Finglas Village and cross at the next set of pedestrian lights there's a bus stop, it's that bus stop!

delta_bravo

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0428/dublinbus.html

Dublin Bus dispute enters third day
Tuesday, 28 April 2009 08:59

The unofficial strike at Dublin Bus has spread to four more garages.

The Conyngham Road, Broadstone, Phibsboro and Summerhill depots are now also affected.

Only Ringsend and Donnybrook garages are providing a full service.
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Dublin Bus has said drivers are being intimidated by the strikers and that windows of buses have been broken at Phibsboro depot.

Passengers have been advised to contact the company, or check its website for updates, as disruption to services looks set to continue for a third day.

Talks aimed at resolving the unofficial industrial action at the company failed yesterday afternoon.

Bus lanes on the northside of the city are open to general traffic to ease congestion.

The dispute began on Sunday after a driver at the Harristown depot was suspended when he refused to work a new schedule.

Dublin Bus said yesterday's the action disrupted up to 150,000 passengers.

The main areas affected by the disruption are Ballymun, Finglas, Coolock, Malahide, Howth, Portmarnock, Donaghmede, Dollymount and Fairview.

The following routes have no service:

4/4a Harristown to Blackrock/Stradbrook

13/13a Merrion Square to Harristown

17a Finglas to Kilbarrack

27 Talbot Street to Clare Hall

27b Eden Quay to Harristown via Beaumont Hospital

27x Clare Hall to UCD Belfield

29a Eden Quay to Newgrove Cross

31 Eden Quay to Howth Summit

31b Eden Quay to Howth Summit

32a Eden Quay to Malahide

32/b Eden Quay to Portmarnock

32x Malahide to UCD Belfield

33b Portrane/Donabate to Swords

40/a/b/c/d Finglas to City Centre

42 Lower Abbey Street to Sands Hotel (Portmarnock) / Coast Road (Malahide)

42a/b Lower Abbey Street to Blunden Drive / Beaumont Hospital (42a)

43 Lower Abbey Street to Swords Business Park

53 Eden Quay to East Wall Road

53a Eden Quay to North Wall (Alexandra Road)

83 Harristown to Kimmage

102 Sutton Station to Airport via Swords

103 Clontarf Dart Station to OMNI Shopping Centre

104 Clontarf Dart Station to Cappagh Hospital

128 Clongriffin to Rathmines (Palmerston Park)

130 Lower Abbey Street to Castle Avenue

140 Finglas to Leeson Street

142 Portmarnock to Rathmines (Palmerston Park)

237 Blanchardstown to Castleknock

238 Blanchardstown to Tyrellstown

239 Blanchardstown Shopping Centre to Liffey Valley Shopping Centre

270 Blanchardstown Shopping Centre to Dunboyne

The following routes have a curtailed peak service:

37 Hawkins Street to Carpenterstown

37x Carpenterstown to UCD Belfield

38/a Hawkins Street to Damastown

38b/c Hawkins Street to Tyrrelstown

39 Hawkins Street to Ongar

39x Ongar to UCD Belfield

41 Lower Abbey Street to Swords Manor

41x Swords to UCD Belfield

70/a Hawkins Street to Dunboyne

The following routes are operating a 75% service:

16, 20, 33, 51, 61, 76, 79, 123, 124, 747, 748

The following routes are operating a 50% service:

41, 78, 90, 151

markpb

delta_bravo wrote: »

The Conyngham Road, Broadstone, Phibsboro and Summerhill depots are now also affected. Only Ringsend and Donnybrook garages are providing a full service.

If Phibsboro is affected, how come the 19/19A aren't in that list? This is getting very confusing.

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markpb wrote: »

If Phibsboro is affected, how come the 19/19A aren't in that list? This is getting very confusing.

Only some services, I saw a 19/a on the road this morning.

Ste.phen

Aye, and a work collegue reported that yesterday's lone 4A is on the route again

markpb

A friend of mine got a 128 this morning. Only as far as IFSC though, he turfed them out there. Maybe he sneaked it out the back door of the garage?

Degsy

Just waited for ages at the 19 bus stop only to be told they're not running either.
Is there any free parking in the city centre anywhere?

lightening

tv3 wrote: »

++Check out the news later and maybe you will change your mind cause you seem to be one sided.

They are not making a good case for themselves to be honest with you. Not a lot of sympathy out there. What did you think would be in the news that would change all our minds?

Fajitas!

I think Dublin Bus's website is going on strike too - I can't access the disruptions page, it asks me to sign in to their "EPISERVER CMS5" server...

Cheers. I'm staying in bed.

Edit; finally got through, 20 mins later. Looks like I am staying in bed.

Dublin_Gunner

Finally managed to get on a 19A this morning, but had to go from McKee Avenue to Ballymun road, thinking I'd be smart because the 11's go there too.

In just over an hour, I didn't see a single 11 cc bound (apart form 1 empty one going the wrong way).

This is a joke.

If I could get my hands around the neck of that plank who decided not to work on Sunday, I swear I'd shove a Euro down his throat and make him give me a jockey-back to town. Prick.

So now they're all pretty much affected? Great. I suppose Dublin Bus will be refunding everyone's taxi fares / loss of earnings etc?

Jay D

I sincerely hope they are sacked, deserve nothing more. Who the fúck do they think they are exactly?

John Mason

i have to agree with Jay D on this

absolute bastards the lot of them

I was thinking can we organise a picket and picket them to be fired ?

Fajitas!

Tbh, I'd feel sorry for the drivers that are either out on the roads, for all the hassle they must be getting, and those that are afraid to pass the picket line - Having windscreens on busses smashed is no way to proceed. Those involved in activites like that should be fired and done for damaging the windows, just like any other scumbag.

lightening

Where are the people that were defending them here yesterday? I wonder have they changed their minds?

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lightening wrote: »

Where are the people that were defending them here yesterday? I wonder have they changed their minds?

I see you found the thread in Commuting&Transport

Jay D

pink fluffy bunny wrote: »

i have to agree with Jay D on this

absolute bastards the lot of them

I was thinking can we organise a picket and picket them to be fired ?

funny I was thinking the exact same thing. After listening to the GRS this morning and hearing what those who actually wanted to work went through instarting their day from utter scum colleagues. Who the hell wants people with that mentality trusted with their safety?

I have not been affected by it mind you.

We could all write and voice our opinion and meaure the actual worth of Dublin Bus.

Africa

I like it - I put an email about them through to the metro this morning. Probably wont print it, but by god, its a disgrace!!

Jay D

Africa wrote: »

I like it - I put an email about them through to the metro this morning. Probably wont print it, but by god, its a disgrace!!

What would thw management do in Africa? :pac:

Africa

thw management?

Probably not much...

maybe toi toi down the main street...

Dublin_Gunner

Africa wrote: »

thw management?

Probably not much...

maybe toi toi down the main street...

Or take the profits, buy a big house, not pay their employees, and send them to live in Ireland.

:P

(Yes I understand my post is SO not PC, but please take it in jest)

tv3

pink fluffy bunny wrote: »

i have to agree with Jay D on this

absolute bastards the lot of them

I was thinking can we organise a picket and picket them to be fired ?

I think the language is abit strong here dont ya think??

John Mason

tv3 wrote: »

I think the language is abit strong here dont ya think??

nope, not in the slightest- if anything it is not strong enough.

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tv3 wrote: »

I think the language is abit strong here dont ya think??

If you have a problem with a post, use the report post function by pressing this button which you will find under every person's username.

Leave the modding to the mods, thank you very much.

pfb, tone it down please.

tv3

Ok cheers .

I totally agree with the drivers just a pity that some off them crossed the picket.No matter what a picket should not be crossed.
Hope the drivers get what they want is what i say !

John Mason

Des wrote: »

pfb, tone it down please.

yes, dear, so you are walking home tonight then ?:p

noodler

tv3 wrote: »

Ok cheers .

I totally agree with the drivers just a pity that some off them crossed the picket.No matter what a picket should not be crossed.
Hope the drivers get what they want is what i say !

Have you any affiliation with Dublin Bus TV3? You aren't a driver by any chance are you?

I disagreed with their planned strikes but these wild card ones are an absolute disgrace. Lets shut down the City's transport system because one of our colleagues was rightly suspended for refusing to do his job.

No sympathy whatsoever.

tv3

noodler wrote: »

Have you any affiliation with Dublin Bus TV3? You aren't a driver by any chance are you?

I disagreed with their planned strikes but these wild card ones are an absolute disgrace. Lets shut down the City's transport system because one of our colleagues was rightly suspended for refusing to do his job.

No sympathy whatsoever.

No i am not a driver or anything to do with them but i dont think it is that simple.Remember dublin bus are cutting services,removing routes and letting people go...do you agree with that???
Do you agree with the taximen shutting down the city every month because they want MORE???

John Mason

tv3 wrote: »

Ok cheers .

I totally agree with the drivers just a pity that some off them crossed the picket.No matter what a picket should not be crossed.
Hope the drivers get what they want is what i say !

No one has any right to be bullied and intimated when they are trying to do their job, in the normal run of things this would be an instant sackable offence but because they are placards, they makes bullying okay?

are you saying that you agee with bullying?

bullies are the lowest form of humanity

Jay D

tv3 wrote: »

I think the language is abit strong here dont ya think??

I really think you should f off talking shoyyyte! Let's play online ping pong or something with you and yourself.

noodler

tv3 wrote: »

No i am not a driver or anything to do with them but i dont think it is that simple.Remember dublin bus are cutting services,removing routes and letting people go...do you agree with that???

The wild card strike appears to have been just that simple though.

On the wider issues, I don't like to see services cut but they are generally less-used ones. Letting people go is a sad reality during a recession as well.

We don't get to strike just because people are being let go-if these cuts are necessary financially then they are necessary.

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tv3 wrote: »

dublin bus are cutting services,removing routes and letting people go...do you agree with that???

Yes, every single other business in the country is doing the same thing.

It's called a recession.

Dublin Bus need to do this to survive, the drivers want protection, why should they get it.

I've suffered one redundancy myself.

Jay D

tv3 wrote: »

Ok cheers .

I totally agree with the drivers just a pity that some off them crossed the picket.No matter what a picket should not be crossed.
Hope the drivers get what they want is what i say !

Oh and for the record anyone who is incredibley stupid, which I would say at least one person is

Picket lines are illegal, just so you know the extent of rubbish being spoke by some (one)

Dublin_Gunner

tv3 wrote: »

.Remember dublin bus are cutting services,removing routes and letting people go...do you agree with that???
Do you agree with the taximen shutting down the city every month because they want MORE???

You mean like most other company's in the current climate? Did DB drivers think they wouldn't be affected by the recession?

And you cannot compare taximen to bus drivers. Bus drivers at least know how much they're going to earn in a week, and I'm sure its more than 40 a day like most taxi's seem to be earning these days - but thats another discussion.

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Jay D, any more of that kind of posts and you'll be banned,

This goes for everyone.

Keep it to a civil level, thanks

Des

tv3

Des wrote: »

Yes, every single other business in the country is doing the same thing.

It's called a recession.

Dublin Bus need to do this to survive, the drivers want protection, why should they get it.

I've suffered one redundancy myself.

Well just because you had a redundancy doesnt mean anything to those drivers..

Just so you know dublin bus have millions in profits as numbers are always steady etc.

The drivers have every right to protect there jobs and i completly agree with them 100% !:D

noodler

tv3 wrote: »

The drivers have every right to protect there jobs and i completly agree with them 100% !:D

This was obvious and no amount of reasoning was going to change your mind.

Africa

The amount of money they make. Everyone is getting redundant. I was made redundant from 2 jobs due to costs in the last year and a half but i have always gotten back on my feet, as should everyone.

The whinging is disgraceful and messing up Dublin worse by not having the buses.

They should have put a dent into DB by driving and not taking the fair - its only as illegal as the picket lines themselves...

Jay D

Des wrote: »

Jay D, any more of that kind of posts and you'll be banned,

This goes for everyone.

Keep it to a civil level, thanks

Des

You do realise picket lines are illegal right? Also boards.ie hates illegal things :eek: :pac:

But point taken on first post.

themarcus

tv3 wrote: »

Just so you know dublin bus have millions in profits as numbers are always steady etc.

No. They do not make profits. It costs many many millions every year to fund Dublin Bus' losses. The taxpayer pays for the inefficient mess that is Dublin Bus.

Admittedly that's not entirely the drivers' fault though.

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Dublin Bus is pleased to advise customers that services have resumed from Harristown depot.

While drivers have returned to work, a reduced service will be operating this evening on the services listed below and a full service is expected to resume tomorrow morning. All other Dublin Bus services are operating normally. Further updates will be made available on this site as services resume.

Dublin Bus wishes to apologise to customers for disruption to services during this unofficial action.

http://www.dublinbus.ie/en/News-Centre/Travel-News/Service-Disruption1/

Jip

tv3 wrote: »

Just so you know dublin bus have millions in profits as numbers are always steady etc.

You should just give up now as it's plainly obvious to everyone you don't know what you're talking about.

Africa

ha ha my article was printed in the metro But i was also glad to see that others agreed with me

lightening

Fair play Africa!! Can you paste it here? I didn't get the Metro.

TV3, I'm sorry, but you haven't a notion what is going on, do you?

John Mason

LOL surprise surprise my bus didnt turn up this morning :rolleyes:

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Looks like some of the Harristown drivers are still out, the 40c never came this morning