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Cheap taxi from Heuston station to airport?
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02-02-2017 9:20pm#1
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HeidiHeidi wrote: »The 747 goes from Busaras as well.
I've often amused myself on the Luas bit of the journey by calculating which would be more efficient in terms of waiting time - Busaras or The Point - using the RTPI and Luas websites. I fully accept that this may not be amusing to most of the rest of the population, though!
Heh, I was thinking of that too (and betting on the point). But it depends on where the bus really is at that time.
Is that "Realtime ireland" app actually accurate in Dublin? In Galway it's often very far off the mark. It does not simply show the official timetable however, so it must be doing something 'realtimey' but whatever it uses it's not very accurate. Buses often come and go on the app but none appear in real life
Maybe it relies on the bus driver pressing a button at every stop or something, I don't know.
It's a great idea though, especially here in Galway where the bus service is very unreliable, you could be waiting for ages. I hope they'll improve it more.0 -
GekkePrutser wrote: »Heh, I was thinking of that too (and betting on the point). But it depends on where the bus really is at that time.
Is that "Realtime ireland" app actually accurate in Dublin? In Galway it's often very far off the mark. It does not simply show the official timetable however, so it must be doing something 'realtimey' but whatever it uses it's not very accurate. Buses often come and go on the app but none appear in real life Maybe it relies on the bus driver pressing a button at every stop or something, I don't know.
The Luas is actually quite slow through town, you'd be surprised! If traffic is light/normal the bus can often be way quicker down the quays from Busaras than the Luas would be trundling through the docklands. But there's only a few minutes in it really.
I've found the RTPI very good mostly - there is the occasional "phantom" bus that I've tracked all the way from the suburbs, and when it's a stop or two away from my local stop I leave the house to catch it - and then suddenly it disappears from the tracker, and has been taken up in a spaceship by aliens for all I know
But in general if the bus actually exists I've found the app very accurate. 0 -
HeidiHeidi wrote: »The Luas is actually quite slow through town, you'd be surprised! If traffic is light/normal the bus can often be way quicker down the quays from Busaras than the Luas would be trundling through the docklands. But there's only a few minutes in it really.
I've found the RTPI very good mostly - there is the occasional "phantom" bus that I've tracked all the way from the suburbs, and when it's a stop or two away from my local stop I leave the house to catch it - and then suddenly it disappears from the tracker, and has been taken up in a spaceship by aliens for all I know But in general if the bus actually exists I've found the app very accurate.
Yeah that's exactly what I'm seeing here. Waiting at the bus stop with a few minutes to go, and suddenly <poof>. No more bus I don't mind the aliens taking it but they could at least give me a lift then!
I don't take the bus that often, just on saturdays into town sometimes because the traffic can be mental. This happened probably half the times, but I don't take the bus often enough (and probably at the worst times) for it to be by any means indicative of the real performance.0 -
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