BusConnects Dublin - Bus Network Changes Discussion

It's literally only two departures in each direction and will most likely be worked on the 65s bill I'd imagine

DCC have an awful habit of announcing projects and then just completely forgetting about them. For example: queen St to Thomas St 2 way cycle route, ratoath road cycle scheme, north Stephens green pedestrianisation, east NCR cycling scheme etc. Every year they either add another year to the timeline or stop talking about the project entirely. Then they tweet that they're increasing Dublin's segregated cycle network from 10kms to 350kms, and the numbers never change, same tween goes out periodically for the last 3 years or so.

Anyway one of these never never projects was an upgrade of the hanlons corner junction, supposed to be delivered in 2021, I wonder will bus connects get there first a d they can stop pretending.

We need much more investment in rail and prioritised; The rail review has backed that up. Dart Ungerground should not of been long-fingered again. A proper East <> West link is needed and, no, the phoenix park tunnel is not sufficient.

Looking out of the window of the DART while crossing the loop line bridge this morning all I could see was a sea of yellow double decker buses. Whatever about new routes and corridors, I don’t think there is much cross city capacity left for bus vehicles. Will be interesting to see if the new traffic plan helps.
Where bus connects needs to intervene is ensuring that people who don’t need to go to the city centre aren’t funneled there by bus routes. The likes of the O or N2 can’t come soon enough.

That is very true and, to be fair, it is clear that the NTA are actively trying to improve the services; 24 hour services rolling out and more orbtal routes are fantastic. We are just overreliant on buses, it needs to be more balanced amognst multiple modes, and sometimes I think that there is a weird cultural adversion to rail. We will happily spend hundreds of millions of roads but investment in rail seems to always be an issue and takes far far too long. But hopefully that changes over time!

Long story short - I love the train :D

Yes