Anybody notice a little 1 euro fare increase on Aircoach recently ?
Not a peep from a media which usually has a collective orgasm at a 5c increase from BAC.
Also still no satisfactory answer as to how the Dept sanctioned a new stage carriage start-up in 1999 without ANY disabled access possible.
In the light of present leglislation what is the Aircoach position should a wheelchair user present for travel on their services..??
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Aircoach Fares
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Posted 6 years ago #
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The fare increase to pay for the new buses which keep breaking down! Dont know why they bought Mercs at double the price of Volvos, Scanias etc. Take my advice, never buy a Merc. They are bloody s**te. May look nice, but thats about it. Ever noticed how all the Aircoaches slowly trundle away from the lights? Thats because of the 12gear Auto-Manual TipTronic effort thay call a gearbox. Goes thru all twelve of them with a good few seconds between. You eventually reach 30mph in 9th!!!
Wheel Chair users get to sit in the under-floor boot. lol. I expect the same rules apply to all the Bus Eirean and other coaches that dont service the infirm.
[posted by: Aircoach Man]Posted 6 years ago # -
Ah thats as maybe AC-Man but Johnner was in a green field start-up situation back in 1999 and the Department were as aware as anybody of the need to make the running on disabled accessibility,yet they quite willingly rolled over and nodded through the High-Floor coach operation of the Aircoach Core route.
They probably had the idea that Bus Atha Cliath would carry the Wheelchairs etc thus freeing up the Aircoach fleet for the thrusting young executives and whatnots.
And as for Mercedes Benzines.....Pure and unadulterated sewage buckets....just wait until the warranties run low on the things.....Posted 6 years ago # -
i noticed a while back an AC driver helping a WC passenger at UCD, i felt sorry for the driver helping the woman up all those steps, it was early on a sunday morning, so the passenger had only one other choice that being a taxi, as BAC don't operate the 746 from DÚN LAOGHAIRE until 1030, maybe it's time BAC got it's act together and offer as good a service as AC with a WC friendly bus.Posted 6 years ago #
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"maybe it's time BAC got it's act together and offer as good a service as AC with a WC friendly bus".
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Would that it were that simple . . .
Dublin Bus did indeed desire to run a much better service on the 746, asically a 20min service from Dun Laoghaire through to the Airport, running 24 hours a day.
The schedules were drawn up, the unions had agreed the rotas, eventually the new buses were delivered, and sitting all shiny and accessible in Donnybrook Garage awaiting the happy day.
Unfortunately however, the Department of Transport REFUSED permission for Dublin Bus to improve the service, and would not allow so much as one extra (or earlier) departure . . .
The buses eventually had to be used elsewhere, replacing older ones, rather than expanding the fleet.
SoS
[posted by: Steve O'Shea]Posted 6 years ago # -
hi sos,
looks like the private op has the gov in it's pocket, more back handers? who knows?
ACD
[posted by: ACdriver]Posted 6 years ago # -
hi sos,
looks like the private op has the gov in it's pocket, more back handers? who knows?
ACD
[posted by: ACdriver]Posted 6 years ago # -
Perhaps Aircoach could do the decent thing and operate wheelchair friendly vehicles similar to Dublin Bus!
[posted by: P]Posted 6 years ago # -
Don't think that is in johnner's nature, unless it's in "first groups" nature, there could be hope.
[posted by: ACdriver]Posted 6 years ago # -
With You there ACD.
Johnner is a businessman now,pure and simple.
All this oul nonsense about "Disability Access" and other "Rights Based" leglislation is nothing whatsoever to do with His Area Of the Bus and Coach business.
The man is astute enough to see and target the more selective able-bodied market and to do it right "first" time.
He quite correctly watches and notes how the Buggy Brigade has already made the BAC "Disabled Access" routes into little more than endless delayed journeys as ever larger Pushchairs and assorted contrivances are wheeled aboard in addition to the shopping and the other screeching children.
Doing the "Decent Thing" never made anybody a millionaire...sad but there you have it.Posted 6 years ago #
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