new bus tickets

Victor

new bus tickets

Flukey

Eh, very nice, but so?

murphaph

Are those street numbers on the ticket?

Downtime

murphaph wrote:

Are those street numbers on the ticket?

Stages probably

newgrange

I'd say they're the Stage numbers.

murphaph

Damn, thought it might be the beginning of integrated journey planning! We really should name all bus stops.

newgrange

Oh don't be silly, that would make things easy.
What are you, some sort of European????

You come here, with your fancy ideas......

murphaph

:d

enterprise

All buses marked in on Ringsend Garage Route 49 / 49A have the new Wayfarer 5 Ticket Machines fitted and therefore restricted to operating this route for the time being. The new ticket machines are also fully smart card compliant.

It is intended to roll it out to all other Ringsend Garage routes within a short period and the rest of the garages will introduce it on a phased basis up to the end of year.

A great feature of the new machines is that the dot-matrix destination display is linked into the ticket machines, so when the drivers inputs his journey details into the ticket machine before the start of each trip the correct information will be displayed on the destination display - which means an end to incorrectly dressed buses such as display not changed after end of trip, wrong route displayed etc.

cdebru

i wonder what they will do with the cross city routes with the new machine

for example if the driver put in 16A but he is only going as far as city centre

at the moment they dont put up any mumbers just city centre on the destination

as some people only look at the number

Ray777

That's a very good point... There's an 84 from Kilcoole every morning at around 9:15, which only goes as far as Belfield. As the dot-matrix destination display on the newer 'AV-type' buses isn't apparently capable of displaying '84 Belfield', the bus is normally dressed as a number 3! Another wonderful example of BAC drivers' ingenuity whilst working within an extremely flawed system.

cdebru

yeah what happens is that instead of giving it a different number like 84d or whatever
they call it an 84 so the drivers are forced to put up 3 so they dont end up with a load of people thinking its an 84

its similar on cross city routes where the bus is only going as far as town why dublin bus did not designate a letter say G or whatever as meaning only going to city centre
is beyond me
but instead you end up with 19s 16s 13s etc with no numbers whizzing past people who have no idea what the bus is

BrianD

I am sure they can devise various codes that will take care of the short runs.

enterprise

All cross-city routes that have services terminating in the city centre have the "C" suffix added to them. e.g. 11C, 13C, 16C, 19C and so on. This is a newish initivate and was launched about 18 months ago approx.

Therefore all cross-city services should display this route number, most do but some don't, prob cos some of the older buses (scroll fitted buses) aren't fitted with the relevant "C" suffix.

murphaph

To be compatible with the new wayfarer 5 will the scroll fitted buses have to be withdrawn or will they be retrofitted with dot matrix or otherwise modified?

enterprise

No the scroll fitted buses will not have to be modified in any way AFAIK.