anybody living around the killiney shopping centre and bellvue area know how poxy it is to try and get into town at times other than rush hour, you can walk the 15-20 minutes to Glenageary dart station but the dart is rubbish and the timetabling is a joke with waits sometimes being up to 40mins and huge gaps between 9am and 11am. why does the 7 still have to follow the poxiest and windiest bus route in the city even though it is the only bus that goes to town from this area? why does it still go through sallynoggin instead of using the new road connecting the graduate and deerhunter, there are bus bays on this new road but no busses use it??? sallynoggin already has loads of busses going through it such as the 111 and the 45a and the bus bays on the new road are close enough to the centre of sallynoggin so there wouldnt be a major problem of sending the 7 down te new road?? to top it off last summer they moved the bus stops in the rochestown park area to make the busses go the other way around the block, now anybody wanting to catch a 7 from the thomastown/arnold park area has to walk even further to catch a bus, ive missed countless busses as a result of this pox :o( last saturday morning the bus that usually comes at 7.10 it did but it went the wrong way around the block (the old way) in sallynoggin and theres me watching the poxy thing whizz past at the top of the road and go around the other side of the block as a result of this I missed my 17 at 07.20 in blackrock and to make things worse the 07.45 17 didnt turn up so i didnt get one until 08.20 so this made me an hour late for work and the boss wasnt impressed, thanks alot dublin bus!
and why does the 7 still go through blackrock village?? when practically nobody uses the two stops on the way into town, why doesnt it just go along the bypass as it would still stop at the frascati centre which is near enough to the other bus stops and in my view is the centre of blackrock now. also whats with the crap in town, there is no bus stop between pearse st and the top of o'connell street?? why not one on westmoreland st or at o'connell bridge where the old one was.
why doesnt the 58X or the 7B run at least once an hour during the day. the 111 or 45a should be extended to blackrock, and the 59 all the way to deansgrange to connect with the 46a why isnt the 8 brought back??? and why arent there any busses that connect shankill ballybrack and rochestown to sandyford industrial estate? (86 doesnt count as it only runs once a day)
sorry for the longwinded rant but im fed up of busses and darts! getting from killiney to DCU must be the biggest mare in the world :o( and its making me go mental.
[posted by: Pissed off]
BUSRAGE Discussions » General Issues
The 7 is the poxiest bus!
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Posted 4 years ago #
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Sounds like you don't remember the time when there actually was no 7; there was the 7A, which ended at Pearse Villas, plus the 45A on the main Sallynoggin Road and Rochestown Avenue, and the old 58 which was running between Ballybrack (Church & Wyattville Roads) and Mackintosh Park via Dun Laoghaire. And that was it.
The 7 was always a local bus from its beginning. When it started up, there was no new road with bus bays connecting the roundabouts at Glenageary Road and Rochestown Avenue; Lower Glenageary Road and Sallynoggin Road was the only way to go. Changing bus routes costs money, plus there would be Sallynoggin residents that would object to a route change, I would imagine; but all things are possible, if you can get a number of like-minded people to put pressure on DB via letters, etc..
As for Blackrock Village, that used to be the only way you could get in and out of Blackrock; Main Street and Newtown Avenue were one-way southbound while Temple Road, Carysfort Avenue and Frascati Road were one-way northbound. What with the widening of Temple Road plus the Frascati Road widening/extension, I myself would have thought that through bus routes would no longer serve Main Street, Temple Road and Newtown Avenue, but there's that local passenger thingy again. (But then again, there have been moves to get the 46A out of Stillorgan Village during peak hours, so you never know.)
The "crap in town" with the missing bus stops of course has to do with "improving traffic flow within the City Centre" (meaning cars of course). It's all political, you know; the current politica stance is against buses and for cars. The only way to change that is to let Leinster House know that they can't keep their jobs forever by pursuing such a foolish transportation policy...Posted 4 years ago # -
I have to admit that my opinion of Dublin Bus has improved enormously since I switched to using the DART between Ballsbridge and town. Of course there's always weekends to remind me of what I'm missing Mon -Fri.
[posted by: Much Put Upon]Posted 4 years ago # -
Well, going to DCU myself from the same area I have very similar sentiments to 'pissed off'.
One 58x north & one south a day just doesn't cut it. It assumes you have to be in college at 9 and want to come home at 5.20, no other time and not on Saturday/Sunday. I usually end up getting the 7b if I'm not up at the disgusting hour of 06.30 for the 58x (have to walk/run up from Granville to shopping centre!!). If you miss the 7b at 08.30 you have to get the 7 which can take 1hr30 grr. The last 7b also goes through Sallynoggin village, very frustrating!
I look at how many 41xs pass by in the morning going to Belfiend (grr)!
Next time George Hook has that guy from Dublin Bus in I'll have to try and get a message in again..
To more 58x/7bs!
[posted by: Joe Snow]Posted 4 years ago # -
Got to agree on the point of no stop between Pearse Street and the top of O Connell Street - this has to be the longest gap between stops for a bus route in the city centre.
[posted by: p]Posted 4 years ago # -
whats with the new bus lane on the cornelscourt section of the N11 it has bus shelters on it too! could this be the first signs of a proper 7b service into town? or has dublin bus once again totally ignored the rochestown area for some crappy and pointless bus that will only go as far as cabinteely? or will it just be for the 84???
[posted by: Pissed off]Posted 4 years ago # -
The 45B I do believe, soon to be announced,offering a 20 min frequency from Bray to Dublin Via the QBC.
However the Department of Transport failed to release funding for BAC to accquire new vehicles for this QBC (As was originally agreed under the NDP......anybody remember the NDP ?).
Therefore BAC has to do some inventive massaging of other lesser utilised Routes in order to service the PVR on the New Link.Posted 4 years ago # -
will this bus go down rochestown ave and through ballybrack?? why does bray need another bus? they have the dart and 45 and 84????
[posted by: Pissed Off]Posted 4 years ago # -
If theres no lines painted for it then it wont be using it......Posted 4 years ago #
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i had to wait one hour today between 11 - 12 for a seven today while 3 111's went past , between 2 and 3 my girlfriend told me she had been waiting one hour for a 7 again and instead had to walk down and get the 46a while 4 111's went past and 6 no. 7's went in the other direction??? when is this "so called" bus service going to get the kick up the arse that it needs? looks like the new timetable has already been ignored, every 8-12 minutes my arse!
[posted by: angry 7 user]Posted 4 years ago # -
angry 7 user: I suggest you repeat your report to DB's head office and the 7's garage.
If you don't get a prompt response (the customer charter, which is online, mentions acknowledgement in 5 days and a response in 21 days) you can send the letters to Seamus B.Posted 4 years ago #
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