BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

local politicians in Greystones are also saying the local services will be Go Ahead operated.

There was also an recruitment open day for Go-Ahead depot which took place last Saturday. I would assume there was a lot of applicants who went to it and got a good experience from talking to the GAI management?

Also there is an important sentence written by Go Ahead Ireland themselves on the top of that website that they are expanding and taking on more routes than ever before.

https://www.goaheadireland.ie/openday

Which begs the key question here; are all of the other locals in the E-Spine phase being run by Go Ahead Ireland or is it just some of the locals from Bray?

Are these the only changes? Politicians in Dublin Mid West were talking about a revised 68 timetable coming in April but I can't find any information on it anywhere.

Anyone know anything about this?

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Only going to get worse as the childrens hospital starts to ramp up

There was talk late last year of bringing in rapid build bus bus measures on advance of the cbc roll out. The bus gate at St James was mentioned specifically. That seems to have fallen by the side

That hospital car park needs to me made pre-book only, no exceptions. If you’re suddenly so sick you can’t take a taxi/PT, then I think an ambulance is your best bet.

RVEEH consistently notifies patients that parking is non-existent and the world hasn’t caved in.

That was never part of the bus connects programme though. I hope that mount brown, rathmines and stoneybatter aren't forgotten about until spade finally hits ground on the cbcs

Nny update on it? I'm seeing a lot of leaner buses on tolka valley road. But no start date for the E/N2 phase.

I really think that if the bus gates on the quays happen in August it will really boost the reliability of Dublin Bus and might help speed up the rollout of bus connects. It would be great to get another of the main spines and the O in place by the end of the year and start work on college green plaza next year.

The only thing that will speed up the rollout of Bus Connects is the recruitment of lots more drivers.

It seems to be moving along nicely at the moment.

One thing I don’t know why they don’t do it here, is the offering of job share contracts, 25%/50%/75% time or weekend work. Plenty of different ways of working these days. Some people would gladly do a few hours every week.

Wow brilliant. They're going to have to do something about the bit around Heuston

I've been watching a lot of empty Dublin Bus vehicles crossing the Eastlink bridge, and wondering why there's no actual route. It quite awkward to get to the southside from that end of the north quays (OK you can walk over to Ringsend but the bridge is quite pedestrian unfriendly).

Looking at the BC map an obvious improvement would be to extend the S2 over the bridge to meet the N4, or maybe even up to Fairview to connect with the N2 as well. this would provide good connectivity between the D & H spines on the northside and the B spine on the Southside (and the Dart and Redline Luas):

side note: is there a version of the big map somewhere that doesn't go blurry when you zoom in?