Travel Experiences - Post Malahide Viaduct Collapse

[citizens7]

The New Enterprise timetable (6th Sept onwards) states that the 08:00 from Belfast stops in Dundalk at 09:10. I understand from talking to staff in Dundalk that this is not the case and the timetable is wrong.

[James Shields]

I'm not very happy with the off peak bus timetable. In particular, if I go out after work, I used to have at least one train per hour. I now have a bus at 21:00, (which is a bit early, as many of the people I'd meet after work would tend to go home first and wouldn't get back till about 8pm), or waiting for the 23:20, meaning I don't get home till after midnight, (which may be enjoyable socially, but not condusive to a productive next day at work).

From tomorrow there's a new bus timetable that drops several services.

[roamling]

today about 30 to 40 people were left standing in Swords as the bus heading towards Ballbrigan was full to capacity. This was around 3.30pm. The bus did not even stop at the bus stop. It stoped at a red light and left 1 person off whereas all the others stayed on board. People waiting at the bus stop were running towards the bus at the red light to get on but the bus was full and went on. The next bus was due in 1h.

Usually lots of people get of in Swords and travellers from Swords towards Lusk, Rush and so one can get on. In this case we can assume that lots of people who would have usually taken the train were on that bus (and not to mention all the school children which are adding extra capaity.)

So here we have the classical scenario were normal 33 bus travellers (who don't have the option to use the extra buses set up by IE because these dont go through Swords) are severly affected by the the train disruptions.

This is not acceptable. I rang IE and complained about the issue today. They need to provide the capacity for the train customers AND the regular bus customers. Dublin Bus is not to blame for what happened today.