According to Dublin Bus' website there are three hours of free buses on "Car Free Day"?
Is that a joke?
Wasn't last year's one 6 hours?
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Three hours
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Posted 6 years ago #
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Three hours it is pet...and be thankful for it....Take a look around the other EU public transport sites and pick the best offer....
All available funding is now going into Seamuseens "Stilton Fund" so therefore there is nuttin available to pay for "Free" promotions ....sad but true....Posted 6 years ago # -
That is nothing short of shocking. We were told it would be six hours by DB, obviously that is not the case, I will amend the news article accordingly.
Three hours though, sure what's the point in bothering? 10-1 must be the quietest time on the buses all day (for cash fares anyway, what with all the free-pass people getting on around 10am).Posted 6 years ago # -
Exactly Watson.......If you were a marketing manager and you had a "Valley" period,would`nt you like to get the bums on seats......PLUS.....Do not forget BAC expect to be reimbursed for these "Free" journeys......Posted 6 years ago #
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If they expect to be reimbursed then who actually made the decision to allow free travel during the 'dead zone'? Brennan? 59 O'Connell Street? DOT? DCC? DTI? Even asking these questions makes you wonder how *any* decisions get made in this town, let alone this one!
Speaking of being reimbursed for free journeys, are CIE still going to dock part of this months pay packet to cover the cost of the last (and it seems final) industrial action? I heard they had their eye on not paying the wage increases due under the latest partnership agreements, in order to cover their costs. Sounded like a red herring at the time, but if I worked for them I'd be looking closely at my payslip at the end of September.
Dublin must now be a total laughing stock, we have officially some of the worst traffic in the world, and yet there is no will to take even simple steps to reduce the number of cars on our roads, they've even gone to the trouble to fly in foreign lobbyists to argue against congestion charges!
As far as Brennan goes, he's been lucky with the weather (and the media) so far, the moment the bad weather arrives and we are back to wet car clogged trips to work I firmly belive his honeymoon with the "meedja" will come crashing to an end. Maybe somebody will actually ask him why his PD collegues are so eager to get more motorists onto our roads...
Or maybe they'll ask why Brennan is planning to get DB to cut back on bus services along Luas routes, even though the Luas was meant to replace *cars* not *buses*. I doubt that though, but we'll see.Posted 6 years ago # -
would#&146;nt you like to get the bums on seats
Problem is, the worse definition of “bum” would also apply, meaning the drug-addicted, unsavoury type, and that would not encourage too much car-free travel…
Or maybe they’ll ask why Brennan is planning to get DB to cut back on bus services along Luas routes, even though the Luas was meant to replace cars not buses
An tUasal Brennan seems to me to be very, very confused. Is he not also engaging in turning all of the Luas into a heavy-rail metro at present? And did nobody tell him that such systems are never meant to replace buses either? (Hey, what about my old home town Leixlip with its two railway stations, but nobody’s looking to “replace” the 66/66A/66B with the rail service, right? that is because the rail service is a good supplement to the buses, not a replacement.) Will it take another civil war to straighten out the status quo…?? I hope not…Posted 6 years ago # -
You are so Right,Al my man....and yes the thrust of LUAS was altered some time ago to one of Competing with BUSES rather than having any meaningful effect of private CAR usage.
The man is in trouble,along with his party and its leader.....Why do you think he has suddenly gone quiet on the breakup CIE business.
Also there is only so much of the "Hey...Im a polititian not an engineer" pahlavah that the proles will take before they smell a Bum...and yes Al,it`s that kinda Bum too !Posted 6 years ago # -
Perhaps the fact that car free day was on a weekday, not a Saturday, means there has been some small element of progress?Posted 6 years ago #
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Progress is measured in results—and what seems to be reported here is that there was little to none, if not regress in many ways. Now, if they had truly been “into” the whole car-free-day business, then they would have scrambled (or properly pre-planned) to set up remote park/ride lots for cars to park at so that buses or trains could get them in and out of town and around/through the car-free zones. Maybe even some bicycle-renting setups could have been appended to such efforts, if applied that is…but all of this is past tense, and on to next year…
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