The new extention of the 14A to Dundrum Luas "interchange" has come at the expense of the 48A, with services cut by 50+% I can understand this outside the peak, but the morning buses have always been heavily patronised, and this new timetable will only force these patrons into their cars as a 40minute base service is neither reliable or practical, as the old 15minute service was. The route from dundrum to town has also been elongated by the reverse loop created on the 14/A. This means that both sides of Dundrum Main Street provide services to town, meaning confusion as the literature provide by DB has been lacklusture at best (even the destination blinds on the 14/A are far from clear) What was meant to be a service improvement for the people of Dundrum has just left many regular users with a bad taste in their mouths, and although it is good to see that the 48A has not been scrapped altogether, the patrons should never have been put in this untenable position in the first place. If the new 48A service reduction is supposed to address the passenger deficit in relation to an Luas, then ConneX will make yet more PPP money as more and more bus users turn to an Luas in the face of an increaingly shoddy 48/44 corridor!
[posted by: David]
BUSRAGE Discussions » Rants
14/A - 48A
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Posted 3 years ago #
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There is a protest tomorrow at 2pm in Dundrum village at the "new" 14A/14 terminus beside the Luas station if anyone can attend.
[posted by: Eugene]Posted 3 years ago # -
On a related point, I am disgusted that the 75 bus goes nowhere near Dundrum Luas station, and thereby fails to connect a huge area of SW Dublin with Luas Green-line services. As far as I can see, it does this in order to double up 48A services between Ballinteer and Dundrum. That is not good enough. I say keep the 48A as it was and run the 75 down Barton Road and thence past the Luas station before continuing towards the coast.Posted 3 years ago #
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put the 38c and 14a together.
what do u think
[posted by: el gigante]Posted 3 years ago # -
Please do not divert the 75 down Barton! The bad service in Baile an tSaoir would only get worse. Maybe a short loop through the village Dun Droma up Taney Road then back onto route via the 86 corridor could be a solution, if awkward.
[posted by: David]Posted 3 years ago # -
86 Corridor, no such thing, that route barely exists anymore!!!
[posted by: Daz42c]Posted 3 years ago #
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