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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
There comes a point where you have to admit that the rail solution is not the best given the situation
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In this situation, where the locations of the stations plus the ease of access to the Nitelink, plus the lack of traffic that is very true. That said, I'd still walk past my nitelink stop on the way to the Green if the Luas was still running.
We are lucky to have the Nitelink service, no matter where you live in Dublin you can usually get a bus home at 2. When I lived in Manchester I presumed that there would be a similar service. The regular buses finished up at 11, and the tram at 11:30, and as I'd just missed the last tram one thursday night (due to a cancelled train from the airport but that's another story), I headed down to Picadilly Gardens to get the Manchester Nitelink. When I arrived the place was full of late buses, all of them going to the student area. There were about four different bus companies serving identical routes. The only bus going to Stretford was run on saturdays only. Is this a sign of deregulation that all the bus companies served the profitable route, but the quieter areas were not served at all.