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118 to and from Stepaside
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Does anyone else have trouble with this route? i have 2 kids who try to get it home each day from school and at least once every week or 10 days it doesnt appear. when i ring donnybrook they tell me they have no driver available. only 2 buses a day from town with an interval of 2+ hours between them. it is just so frustrating.Posted 1 year ago #
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118 is cought up in Sandyford Industrial Estate roadworks so any buses put on this route is just empty sitting in traffic.. why not talk to Phill O Donohue in donnybrook not just anyone who anwsers the phone...
[posted by: rage]Posted 1 year ago # -
How is it that you are trying to rely on a bus that runs twice per day? Also, what school are you trying to access from Stepaside?
I've written to DB about these once-or-twice-daily routes being inefficient and useless to passengers, but they aren't good listeners to the public; maybe their management only listen to the politicians, who in turn listen to their lobbyists...Posted 1 year ago # -
How often do you use these 'once-or-twice-daily routes' or any route for that matter?
[posted by: D42C]Posted 1 year ago # -
Let's put it this way: I've travelled all over the Dublin Bus system long before you could ride a bus unaccompanied by parents or elder guardians. So I've got some experience in the matter. I've been from Donard to Balbriggan, from Newcastle County Wicklow to Oldtown, from Glencullen to Kilcock. So your question is utterly worthless—just like the efficacy and utility of these once-or-twice-daily routes.
I don't see any parallel private operators vying to take over and/or expand operations of such routes, so that even compounds their lack of viability.
What's your solution, genius, now that you've stuck your neck out?Posted 1 year ago # -
Ok, so put simply 'No, I have not travelled on a bus in years, and I have as much right to speak about the current state of Dublin Bus system as a politician'
Your right, private operators are not lining up to operate routes like the 116/7/8 etc. because they wont make a profit. Making a profit is for the Privateers. Dublin Bus, a public, government run subsidary of CIE, does run these routes to provide a service, something a privateer wont do, as if it doesnt line the investor/shareholders pockets, its no good.
The Xpresso's and the 116/7/8 are huge sucesses to local people. I know for a fact that the 27C/X/127 leave every morning and by the time they hit the UCI they are Full. The 116/7/8 fill up on the Stillorgan QBC.
So my solution being the big genius I am is:
Create more routes like this to keep passengers getting from A to B and to keep people like you moaning about CIE this, Donard that, irregular bus services blah..Posted 1 year ago # -
Ok, so put simply 'No, I have not travelled on a bus in years, and I have as much right to speak about the current state of Dublin Bus system as a politician'I haven't travelled on a bus in years? Is that a disqualification? You don't have to be a current bus user to be concerned about bus service, you know. Heck, you don't even have to be in the country to worry about bus service in Dublin. You ever been out of the country?
Wow, you don't know one thing that you're talking about. Once or twice daily peak route services are the profitable ones. If DB were providing a service, such buses would be running as frequently as the former City Swifts and City Imps. Xpresso buses would be just as successful if they ran all day and charged regular fares—and they wouldn't charge extra fare if they weren't intended to embellish the bottom line. More buses would actually attract passengers out of their cars, you know—so how do you judge these buses to be "successes" when all that's resulted is a huge mire of cars on the road?
Your right, private operators are not lining up to operate routes like the 116/7/8 etc. because they wont make a profit. Making a profit is for the Privateers. Dublin Bus, a public, government run subsidary of CIE, does run these routes to provide a service, something a privateer wont do, as if it doesnt line the investor/shareholders pockets, its no good.The Xpresso's and the 116/7/8 are huge sucesses to local people. I know for a fact that the 27C/X/127 leave every morning and by the time they hit the UCI they are Full. The 116/7/8 fill up on the Stillorgan QBC.
So my solution being the big genius I am is:
Create more routes like this to keep passengers getting from A to B and to keep people like you moaning about CIE this, Donard that, irregular bus services blah
Your solution is as worthless as your flames. Stick to what you know, whatever that happens to be.Posted 1 year ago #
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