New bus eireann buses ?

Mrs Garth Brooks

Are there new bus eireann buses ? Has anyone been on them? I was on their website and their express buses from galway to dublin, galway to cork has new buses. With more space, wifi and even charging points on the buses so you can charge your laptop.

Has anyone been on them yet?

vicwatson

Yeh, so what?

Mint Sauce

Have passed out a few in my nice comfortable car.

mikemac1

Buses are for poor people

Mrs Garth Brooks

vicwatson wrote: »

Yeh, so what?

So what? You can now pass three hours on a bus without your laptop battery dying, thats what.

Gee Bag

They'll have to sell off those fancy new buses pretty soon and replace them with cattle trailers pulled by battered Massey Fergusons

vicwatson

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

So what? You can now pass three hours on a bus without your laptop battery dying, thats what.

Buy a new damn laptop battery :rolleyes:

danslevent

They have wi-fi

Cookie_Monster

wifi and even charging points on the buses so you can charge your laptop

expensive gimmicks, how about instead of wasting money on crap like this they use the money to buy more buses or employ more drivers and provide a better service rather than useless wifi and a plug or two

Scioch

mikemac1 wrote: »

Buses are for poor people

With wifi and laptop charging points this poor lark doesnt sound too bad to me.

recyclebin

I was on one of these hungover on Sunday. They still have no leg room or air conditioning which made the journey feel like hell.

Scioch

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

expensive gimmicks, how about instead of wasting money on crap like this they use the money to buy more buses or employ more drivers and provide a better service rather than useless wifi and a plug or two

So one work the wheel and one work the pedals sitting in each others laps ?? Thats crazy talk, you'll have us all killed !

chin_grin

Bus wanker!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1V_qz9I1Nk

Mr.Biscuits

Would it be possible to drive just ahead of said buses and use their free wifi?

As a passenger in a passing car I mean (compulsory Health & Safety warning) not suggesting anyone try and do this while they are driving.

chin_grin

Mr.Biscuits wrote: »

Would it be possible to drive just ahead of said buses and use their free wifi?

As a passenger in a passing car I mean (compulsory Health & Safety warning) not suggesting anyone try and do this while they are driving.

Drive-by wifi-ing? Madness!

Peetrik

Pfft, not surprised they can afford fancy new busses, have you seen their prices? In a word, extortionate.

vicwatson

Using Bus Eireann is soooo 1999

Mrs Garth Brooks

Mr.Biscuits wrote: »

Would it be possible to drive just ahead of said buses and use their free wifi?

As a passenger in a passing car I mean (compulsory Health & Safety warning) not suggesting anyone try and do this while they are driving.

Just follow it instead. So much easier.

Yep, they do exist. Saw a 2012 reg bus (sporting a Wi-Fi sticker) outside Busaras on Saturday.

recyclebin

HardLuckWoman wrote: »

Just follow it instead. So much easier.

Yeah just turn on the cruise control and it will follow it. you won't have steer or brake. just take out the laptop and get some free internet.

That's how cruise control works, riiight?

Greentopia

irish-stew wrote: »

Have passed out a few in my nice comfortable car.

And you get stuck in traffic jams just as much in your 'nice comfortable car' (actually more as buses can avail of bus lanes), and while car drivers can do nothing but sit and stew in traffic...maybe listen to the radio- on a bus you can just relax and listen to your MP3, read a newspaper or book, or go on your laptop and get some work done or play a game, watch a movie, go on boards.ie...

rKossi

Bus ****

SHOVELLER

Wifi is great if they turn off the ****ing music

bscm

Been on a good few new ones. Wifi took a while to be picked up. Less leg room than the older buses. Plugs by most (not all) seats.

Only decent perks are the seats are more comfy and there's less of a smell.

oppenheimer1

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

expensive gimmicks, how about instead of wasting money on crap like this they use the money to buy more buses or employ more drivers and provide a better service rather than useless wifi and a plug or two

So providing wifi and laptop charging points isn't improving the service provided then? The wifi is pretty good actually, and is quite stable.

This is typical auld moany shite thats become the irritating hallmark of this place.

ClosedAccount

bscm wrote: »

Been on a good few new ones. Wifi took a while to be picked up. Less leg room than the older buses. Plugs by most (not all) seats.

Only decent perks are the seats are more comfy and there's less of a smell.

Yeah I heard the scum class don't get plug points.

Cookie_Monster

oppenheimer1 wrote: »

So providing wifi and laptop charging points isn't improving the service provided then? The wifi is pretty good actually, and is quite stable.

most reports on the C&T forum say it's terrible or patchy at best. With most people having 3g devices it's largely irrelevant anyway.

fasttalkerchat

If I was going to Galway for the day I would get the bus if it had internet and chargers. I assume prices haven't changed?

Cookie_Monster

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

If I was going to Galway for the day I would get the bus if it had internet and chargers. I assume prices haven't changed?

what would you do otherwise?

Captain Morgan Freeman

It's a band aid for the bullet wound of ridiculously high ticket prices.

JONJO THE MISER

Great about time, i often travel on buses and it can be very boring looking out the window all the time.

Tigerandahalf

The charging points are the most important thing. My laptop is old and needs to be plugged in the whole time plus screen is brighter.
Do the seats have drop down table to hold laptop?

fasttalkerchat

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

what would you do otherwise?

Drive...

Cookie_Monster

fasttalkerchat wrote: »

Drive...

so for 1h 10 mins extra each way you take the bus over driving for a bit of internet (not to mention travel times to from Busaras)

fasttalkerchat

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

so for 1h 10 mins extra each way you take the bus over driving for a bit of internet (not to mention travel times to from Busaras)

2h30mins each way and EUR18 return (student price).
Plus you can relax and sit on the internet and no hassle of driving for the same price as the fuel.

Leonard Hofstadter

It is about as quick to go from Galway to Dublin using either GoBus or CityLink's non stop service (which run every hour) than driving, plus it costs about a third of the price in fuel, and there's no tolls to worry about (the tolls alone would constitute half the price of the ticket), or parking, or the Luas, or anything.

The journey time is supposed to be 2 hours 30 between Dublin city centre and Galway coach station, but in reality if there's not a lot of traffic, this can be done in about 2 hours 20.

Why would you bother driving?

Immaculate Pasta

chin_grin wrote: »

Drive-by wifi-ing? Madness!

I've heard they're doing it now over in LA. There's a huge poverty gap there though there still. In South Central LA they're all out about the drive by shootings but up in Beverley Hills people have moved onto drive by wifi-ing. Both cases though still very very tragic

Vicxas

The 109 and 109a have shiny new buses. Too bad i drive my car to work

Jester252

I hope that they have a better service now. Not an hour long wait on the Dublin to Limerick route. Where the bus you get is some old school bus that they hire because they don't what to the route that hour

oppenheimer1

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

most reports on the C&T forum say it's terrible or patchy at best. With most people having 3g devices it's largely irrelevant anyway.

So you haven't even tried it but are knocking it? :rolleyes:

Ah the C&T forum, where CIE can do nothing right, and everyone has a much better way of doing things whilst ignoring the realities of running a transport company. Considering the popularity of the wifi service its is hardly largely irrelevant, BE released statistics on its usage by passengers and its quite high. Interesting results for something thats a mere "gimmick" no?

blackwhite

captainspeed wrote: »

It is about as quick to go from Galway to Dublin using either GoBus or CityLink's non stop service (which run every hour) than driving, plus it costs about a third of the price in fuel, and there's no tolls to worry about (the tolls alone would constitute half the price of the ticket), or parking, or the Luas, or anything.

The journey time is supposed to be 2 hours 30 between Dublin city centre and Galway coach station, but in reality if there's not a lot of traffic, this can be done in about 2 hours 20.

Why would you bother driving?

All well and good if you are only going from Galway city centre to Dublin city centre.

Bus is great for point to point, but once you want to go anywhere that isn't directly on the bus route, the car becomes more and more advantageous.

Nothingbetter2d

mikemac1 wrote: »

Buses are for poor people

Correction

Poor People
Blind People
Old People with serious health issues
Children heading to/from school
Junkies

AeoNGriM

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

expensive gimmicks, how about instead of wasting money on crap like this they use the money to buy more buses or employ more drivers and provide a better service rather than useless wifi and a plug or two

A watch for the feckin drivers would be handy...........

Nothingbetter2d

AeoNGriM wrote: »

A watch for the feckin drivers would be handy...........

lol a class in basic good manners wouldn't hurt either

Sergeant

I'm the man behind the voice heard when the luggage doors are opened or closed.

"Stand Clear Luggage Doors Operating".

Chosen from a cast of thousands for my authoritative culchie accent.

PseudoFamous

I was getting these lovely new buses in the morning, and then the fools had to crash two of them into each other up in Broadstone, so we're getting the rattliest, most disgusting buses ever while they fix them.

Solair

A lot of Cork City Double Deckers have wifi on board stickers!
Seems totally pointless to me.

Who takes out a laptop on a city bus???

Also, most smartphones and tablet devices have fast 3G.

ian87

Sergeant wrote: »

I'm the man behind the voice heard when the luggage doors are opened or closed.

"Stand Clear Luggage Doors Operating".

Chosen from a cast of thousands for my authoritative culchie accent.

"Stend clee-ar, luggij doors operaaaaaaaaaaating"

Solair

ian87 wrote: »

"Stend clee-ar, luggij doors operaaaaaaaaaaating"

All it's short of saying is the Garda classic : veh-heee-heee-ikle

fasttalkerchat

Solair wrote: »

All it's short of saying is the Garda classic : veh-heee-heee-ikle

Shtayyy Awayyy De veh-heeee-ikle is ravershin.

aujopimur

mikemac1 wrote: »

Buses are for poor people

Dnn't forget the smellies.