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X8 Dublin to Cork on a Friday evening

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  • 03-03-2014 3:25pm
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    JellyBeans92
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    **If I've this in the wrong forum, please feel free to move it**

    I'm just posting to find out if anyone else has had any delays with the 16h00 X8 service from Dublin to Cork on a Friday evening. This Friday just gone, I was taking it from Dublin to Fermoy for the first time and though it was scheduled to arrive there at ~19h10, I didn't get to Fermoy until well after 20h00. :(

    I'm just wondering if this is normal of this route at this time, have any other users here experienced similar issues, should I be writing a letter of complaint to Bus Eireann etc.? :pac:
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    bk
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    This is pretty normal, the x8 timetable is a work of fantasy!

    I'd also send your letter of complaint to the NTA, you are more likely to get noticed there.


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    VWD8
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    In fairness the X8 is much more reliable since the timetable change last year, but yeah before that it was a disaster. Latest I have seen it arrive in Cork since then is about 15 minutes, usually 5 minutes late.

    That delay is bad though. What time did it leave Dublin at?


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    JellyBeans92
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    VWD8 wrote: »
    In fairness the X8 is much more reliable since the timetable change last year, but yeah before that it was a disaster. Latest I have seen it arrive in Cork since then is about 15 minutes, usually 5 minutes late.

    That delay is bad though. What time did it leave Dublin at?

    I'm not sure what time it left the airport or Bus Arus, but I hopped at Heuston where it was supposed to be there by 16h12 and didn't get there till half past?


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    JellyBeans92
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    bk wrote: »
    This is pretty normal, the x8 timetable is a work of fantasy!

    I'd also send your letter of complaint to the NTA, you are more likely to get noticed there.

    I'll get right on it, does anyone know where I could find an email address for Bus Eireann and/or NTA?
    :pac:


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    LXFlyer
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    JellyBeans92 wrote: »
    I'll get right on it, does anyone know where I could find an email address for Bus Eireann and/or NTA?
    :pac:



    To be fair - I think bk's comments were based on the old X8 timetable, which was impossible.


    The current one looks quite reasonable.


    There may have been traffic congestion between the Airport and Heuston - it does seem like an unusually long time to get there.


    Was there bad traffic anywhere between Heuston and Fermoy?


    Friday evenings can cause issues with any timetable to be honest.


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    Chris_5339762
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    Wasn't there a smash up along the Naas road that Friday that jammed it up basically from the start of the M7 right back to Newlands?


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