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philip · 06-03-2006, 11:32

I can't think of any city I've been to that I had to use PT where it was worse PT than Dublin. I've been to a fair few places for work where we'd use hire cars/taxis but I'd still say those places had Dublin licked.

Even supposedly dodgy PT cities in the UK tend to allow the private bus operators to at least seel an all-day pass for their own company on board the bus, even that's impossible with Bus Atha Cliath (DoT thing I know) but when you can't get on a bus and buy an all day ticket for that company on board your first bus it's pretty hard to get any worse.

I can't even say Valetta because the buses are so cheap and frequent (if a little slow) that they still present better overall value than in Dublin.

Maybe some North American sunbelt city could be in the running for many don't even have pavements in housing estates to walk along.

06-03-2006, 11:32	#5
philip Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 632	I can't think of any city I've been to that I had to use PT where it was worse PT than Dublin. I've been to a fair few places for work where we'd use hire cars/taxis but I'd still say those places had Dublin licked. Even supposedly dodgy PT cities in the UK tend to allow the private bus operators to at least seel an all-day pass for their own company on board the bus, even that's impossible with Bus Atha Cliath (DoT thing I know) but when you can't get on a bus and buy an all day ticket for that company on board your first bus it's pretty hard to get any worse. I can't even say Valetta because the buses are so cheap and frequent (if a little slow) that they still present better overall value than in Dublin. Maybe some North American sunbelt city could be in the running for many don't even have pavements in housing estates to walk along.