New Style Dublin Bus Timetables

Victor

http://www.dublinbus.ie/your_journey/viewer.asp?route=41a

Alun

It only appears to be for certain routes though. Try the 46A or the 145 for example and you get the old-style "guess when it arrives at all the intermediate stops" version.

John R

Alun wrote:

It only appears to be for certain routes though. Try the 46A or the 145 for example and you get the old-style "guess when it arrives at all the intermediate stops" version.

The new printed timetable and the free timetable sheets available at O'Connell St. for several months now are all in this format.

The times given for certain routes are well estimated while many others are incorrect.

The intermediate times are given as a guide only, if a bus is quicker than suggested it is not going to wait.

Shrimp

yeah it doesn't seem to work for the 15's?

Steve Conway

The inconsistancies in timings in the new (printed) timetable book on sale from Dublin Bus are staggering.

The 48A takes 40 minutes from Dundrum to Townsend street, but the 44 takes only 20 minutes! And the 86, all the way from Stillorgan (via Dundrum) is only 30 minutes.

The 15, 15A and 15B are all given 10mins from Earlsfort Terrace to Swan Centre, but the poor 15C has to get as far as Orwell Road in the same time.

And the 27 apparently gets from Donnycarney Church to City Centre in 5 minutes!!!!

Best of all, the 33 outbound is given 3 minutes from Abbey Street to Parnell Square East. It must fairly fly, though as it doesn't serve Parnell Square on the outbound journey . . .

I could go on.

And I could point out the total and complete lunacy of producing a timetable book immediatly before the opening of Harristown, which resulted in a huge number of route and timetable changes which are not reflected in the timetable.

Well, maybe Harristown took them by surprise. I'm mean, it's not as if they were planning and building it for 2 years, is it????

atlantean

I have to say that it is a good idea to give an indication as to how long it will take a bus to get from the departure stop to a given point. However the system used by Dublin Bus here is somewhat confusing when placed beside their already existing method of timetable format for routes which are timed at intermediat points. An example of which is the 84 http://www.dublinbus.ie/your_journey/viewer.asp?route=84

Steve Conway

Yeah.

Look at the 33A timetable outbound, particularly on Saturday evenings.

Buses timed to take 40-45 minutes from Skerries to Balbriggan at 10pm at night???? What do they do to get it that slow, get out and push the bus? The timing on the side says 12 minutes, which is reasonable!