Dublin - BusConnects

The forthcoming DLRCoCo transport plan for the Dundrum area will certainly be an interesting document!

Well timetables are probably more informative at termini (which this will be) than RTPI poles to be honest, given that drivers may not have signed on to their duty.

Folks- what’s the best route planner app to use to figure out how to get from A to B using PT?

Ive put in getting from the Rathfarnham area to liffey valley in google maps using PT and it tells me to use a taxi part of the way for a 50min route or a bus into and out of town for a 1hr 20min route?

Has anyone heard of a possible date that Phase 5 will be starting on? Just want to make sure I have filmed all the bus routes changing in Phase 5, before they change.

I've noticed when on the 47 towards town, more often than not when it uses that stop it needs to stop out from the kerb as the stop is full of buses for the C1/C2.

L13 will serve these areas linking Sandymount with the hospital and UCD, however, a frequency will not be great.

Re Dart cross at Sydney Parade we should close it for any traffic apart a public transport.

There are many areas BusConnects could have been done better. Lots of missed opportunities, but a rather more conservative approach has been taken.

While that might work as a potential terminus, you're still adding a major bottleneck to the service in the form of the level crossing and the two junctions on Merrion Road.

That could cause serious problems for reliability along the rest of the route towards Lucan.

And it would need more buses and drivers to operate, something Dublin Bus don't have right now.

You are missing the point - it would still need additional running time and driver and bus resources, which the company doesn't have.

Layover time is there for a reason - it's a buffer against unexpected delays. Look at the frequency of the C1 and C2 and that will explain why there can be so many buses at the terminus.

I still would not be sending buses on a Spine route along a road that has a busy level crossing, as that could potentially cause serious delays to the schedule for the rest of the route heading towards Lucan.

The Spines are supposed to be based on integrated schedules between the different spine routes, and adding that extra potential for delays would not be a wise move.

Why not run the L13 at 30 minute intervals instead?

Thanks for posting. It seems there will be a lot of reliance on bus priority signals when there is not enough room for bus lanes. The existing one coming in to Rathmines from the Rathgar side works reasonably well, so hopefully these will too.

I had concerns the bus gate in Rathmines will not be adhered to as it's not 24 hours, but traffic going in to the city won't be able to continue over Portobello bridge anyway, so there's no big incentive for most drivers to breach the bus gate. In fact the design ensures there is no obvious way for cars from Rathgar, Terenure or Rathfarnham to get to the city centre.

The only inbound lane on and after portabello bridge is a bus lane until you get to the Wexford St/Kevin St/Cuffe St junction. (Except a small bit for traffic turning left from South Circular/Harrington road to go inbound. But they then have to immediately turn turn at the Bleeding Horse and go via Harcourt Street.)

Everything else heading inbound from Rathmines has to turn left and go west along the canal, not over the bridge.

If a 'busgate' doesn't deter drivers then a short stretch of bus lane also will not deter drivers