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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
There is a time sensitivity any deviation adds several minutes to the Navan Dublin time bear in mind as things stood in 2005 it was possible to get a bus from Bus Aras and be in Navan in under 60 minutes at rush hour. Train needs to be no more than 50-55 minutes to be competitive. Navan is going to be at least twice the population of Ratoath and Dunshaughlin combined.
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Sadly this is not true. I know because I spent all of 2004 and 2005 commuting on the Navan - Dublin bus and there was never any chance of a sub 60 minute trip. Anywhere between 75 and 90 minutes would have been typical for both legs of the journey. Throw in the Navan scheme where the evening arrival is at the opposite end of the town from the morning departure (do you park near the morning stop or the evening one?) and you've got a seriously long journey on, at that time time, horrible buses.
I stuck it for two years and abandoned ship. I have since found that the Navan-Dublin bus route is a far inferior service compared to the Drogheda-Dublin train. I have used the bus twice recently and found the timings have not improved much and are still very unpredicatble from one day to the next due to ever changing Dublin traffic conditions. Bus conditions have improved a lot though with nice new coaches.