Regarding the idea of the 46A's going to Drumcondra remember that some already go to the airport. I would wonder exactly how the turnaround would be managed in Drumcondra. Wouldnt it be better if the 46A was to continue heading North? For example, why not merge it with another route coming down the Swords road, the 41, and have a high quality cross town bus from Swords to Dun Laoire serving the airport on the way?
In realtion to the docklands area bus staion it would be ideal to take what I would have traditionaly thought were the Ringsend routes - all the Tallaght Buses, all of the 15's together with all of the 14's (which really ought to be merged with the 13's on the northside) all of the 78's and 51's to Ballyfermot and Clondalkin, all of the 25's the 26 and 66/67's. The idea is that it is only a terminal stop, the pickup points in and around the central area would remain more or less as they are.
As for the parking lot on Abbey Street, I agree that is all it's good for. When it was used before the traffic flows in the area were diferent, you could drive a bus right to it down abbey street, you cant do that now, less there is a derogation, whcih is easily done. You could perhaps have the buses share the luas track, shouldnt be too much of a problem as long as there are no bus stops adn the bueses are only going as far as Caple Street anyway.
You could have the buses that terminate on Lower Abbey street terminate there. there isnt any point in having them terminate in the docklands as its moving the last stop further away form the city centre.
You do that and merge a few of the above, along with the 40's and get them crossing the river and it could potentially free up a lot of space.
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