Rail Users Ireland Forum - View Single Post - Dublin Bus - The End of An Lar-ism at Last?

philip · 02-01-2006, 13:15

We can only hope and pray that the end of an-larism is nigh. Clearly many (most) areas which are not served by rail will still need a bus that goes through the city centre area, but hopefully these routes will be cross city routes and stop terminating them in the city itself. They should attempt to match QBCs of equal standard across the city to maintain predictable journey times on these longer routes. For example, the 46A QBC could be joined to the 25A QBC as they both run on long stretches of dual carriageway with bus lanes at the shoulders.

Orbital route must be a priority. The M50 between J6 and J7 should have it's hard shoulders converted to bus lanes and the 76A should be dramatically improved and take a far less circuitous route to Tallaght from Blanchardstown.

Maybe we'll see Drumcondra tapped into? Oh wait, that would require the two CIE companies to cooperate!

02-01-2006, 13:15	#2
philip Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 632	We can only hope and pray that the end of an-larism is nigh. Clearly many (most) areas which are not served by rail will still need a bus that goes through the city centre area, but hopefully these routes will be cross city routes and stop terminating them in the city itself. They should attempt to match QBCs of equal standard across the city to maintain predictable journey times on these longer routes. For example, the 46A QBC could be joined to the 25A QBC as they both run on long stretches of dual carriageway with bus lanes at the shoulders. Orbital route must be a priority. The M50 between J6 and J7 should have it's hard shoulders converted to bus lanes and the 76A should be dramatically improved and take a far less circuitous route to Tallaght from Blanchardstown. Maybe we'll see Drumcondra tapped into? Oh wait, that would require the two CIE companies to cooperate!