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Originally Posted by thomasjstamp
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.
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Click here, northbound along Drumcondra Rd, left onto Whitworth Rd, right onto St Patrick's Rd, right onto St Anne's Rd then right again back onto Drumcondra Rd southbound. And there's pace beside the station to drive piles to retain the embankment before removing that mound of earth, providing space for something like Muenchener Freiheit (pictured above) if needs be but it'd work fine wihout that.
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Originally Posted by thomasjstamp
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?
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This isn't a bad idea either. Maybe run all 46As to the airport and all other south-north buses that terminate in Parnell Sq run on just as far as Drumcondra. I wouldn't advocate running all buses to the airport as they'd be better used serving a wider catchment area than all heading north (mostly empty) on the N1. Then in the future when the metro arrives you go the other way and run buses from the likes of Coolock/Beaumont/Darndale north-south to Drumcondra using the same loop to turn only now dropping passengers who are city bound onto metro/DART. It really works elsewhere and it really can work here. The N1 is nice and wide and can accomodate QBC measures a lot better than the city centre. You then replicate the same across the city and as time goes by fewer and fewer buses need to penetrate the city centre and can be sweated in the 'burbs just feeding into the rail network, both in the radial manner I outlined for Darndale etc. -> Drumcondra and in an orbital manner into all the other radial rail lines.