What's with all these new alpha-suffixed routes that run once a day (stuff like 46D, E and F, for example)? What's going on in Dublin Bus planning, I'd like to know...? They had some good ideas in the mid-90s what with increasing service frequency on key routes, but a lot of routes are seeing service reductions, while others are cancelled in favour of replacing them with local buses that feed the DART trains (how many people can you jam onto the DART after all, who would rather stay on a bus going into town)? Back during the mid-90s, I observed a general retreat from excessive alpha suffix usage, e.g. the replacement of the 77B with the 77, 38A/C with the 38, 50A with the 50...but lately, that trend has been reversed. What's behind it...? Are the Dubin Bus planners gone rather clandestine all of a sudden, doing the route planning without passenger input (which is contrary to good service)? The QBC and City Imp service is an utter sham, per last time I observed it in action - buses are supposed to run every five minutes or so, but instead, there's a twenty-minute gap between which four or five buses arrive one after the other. There's also the recent trend of lengthening routes, which also serves to increase unreliable schedule-keeping (e.g. the 19A, whose "hostile take-over" of the former 155 has resulted in a less-frequent route that goes all the way from Glasnevin to Greenhills). DB planners had better get off their high horses and start talking to the passengers, otherwise they'll soon be out of jobs and their passengers will be out of the buses and into cars...
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Alpha suffix mania
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