BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

See my post 10903 above...

If the AVL is turned off or updating, they won't track. Same as if a bus goes 'Off Route' it disappears

I saw some interesting obversations on the L25 route earlier today.

There was an EV used on the one of the early L25 runs to Dundrum Luas this morning.

A few minutes later; a L25 bus was going out to service to Dún Laoghaire passing Annaville Terrace at around 6:30am this morning. The bus, which was an Green/Yellow SG, had all of the lights switched on inside and outside of the bus. However the bus display said it was out of service. It was very odd seeing it like that because the bus had stopped for passengers on Benamore Road when it went to Dún Laoghaire this morning.

Also there was no vehicle traffic on the road itself at that time of day.

The NTA CEO Anne Graham has said to the Oireachtas Transport Committee that integrated ticketing won't be available on Dublin City Services until 2025.

She said that the NTA are currently looking for suppliers of this tender at the moment. It will require a complete replacement of all of the ticket machines in the Dublin City bus fleet along with a new I.T. system to support the new infrastructure.

Billy Hann of Dublin Bus has said that car ownership in Dublin has doubled to 2.2 million cars over a 20 year period from 1995 to 2015.

There is also 711 drivers being recruited and trained with Dublin Bus since January 2022 and 99 drivers being trained with GAI for BusConnects.

Question following the Phase 5b implementation, In Crumlin village the bus stops are showing S4, 27 and 150. Is the 27 moving into Crumlin village or is it just a mistake on the poles?

Thanks,

Owen

Yes, these changes should allow Contactless, Google pay, etc. to be used. The leap card will still be an option, but it will likely be changed to an account based system, rather than the current need to effectively "load" the balance onto the card.

It uses the normal route to Walkinstown roundabout, then Cromwellsfort road, Crumlin village and back onto Crumlin Road at the hospital. It does be fairly packed too from what I remember, going by the last time I worked it. (and that's not today or yesterday)

I don't doubt it's a big job, I'm questioning why they didn't start on it years ago. It's not like this is new or cutting edge stuff - here's the NTA talking about it in 2014. In the intervening 9 years they appear to have done next to nothing to progress the project.

nc

The phased introduction of integrated ticketing took 12 years so that's nothing. These things tale up peoples entire careers

You are correct. Its a big gap in the service.

You can walk up from the nearest stop but its probably a good 10 - 15 min walk.