To the surprise of absolutely no one. Was with a German friend over for the weekend and she couldn’t wrap her head around the concept that the electronic timetable should be treated as more like an estimation than any serious schedule. Late buses, no shows, ghost buses, others disappearing from the timetable for no apparent reason….our public transportation is a shambles. It’s no surprise why people are still in their cars. I actually know people who’ve turned down jobs because of Dublins piss poor transport service. [Tallaght to Dun Laoghaire is less than 13km but a quick Google Maps search there says it’ll take the best part of 2 hours to get there](https://i.imgur.com/rdM1H88.jpeg). It’s just not feasible to be sitting on a bus for 2 hours when driving takes under 30 minutes. I honestly can’t think of any other European capital whose public transportation is so poor.
So let me get this right… instead of providing adequate funding for public transport it’s better to fine them?
Where do the fines go?
In all honesty, what’s the point if it’s not used properly… also for the buses, if they’re privately owned routes and the publicly paid/run drivers are intentionally destroying those services, I hope it gets better media coverage to show how a lot of our Dublin bus routes have been sold to bidders for less than their yearly revenue while still operating their running costs through tax revenue. Dublin bus drivers tried their best to protest this but it was ignored which led to many of them quitting and looking for work else where.
My morning commute went to absolute shit the week Go Ahead Ireland took control of the route.
Suddenly a bus every 10 minutes turned into a empty void between 730 and 830 where maybe a bus or two just kind of randomly shows up and you hope there is still room.
Guess they’ll need to whack the fare up more next year to recoup the losses.
Ended up having to walk 6km to work last week as the Go-Ahead bus never came. Good for the hips, bad for being on time.
Government fines its own public transport that it set up to fail, so it can create an excuse to privatize more of it.
Rinse and repeat for another couple of decades – as the percentage of privatized routes increases more and more.
I know a few lads who work for Dublin bus or are contracted by Dublin bus and they tell me that they don’t have enough drivers to drive the buses, so they’ll never be able to meet their scheduled services. Dublin bus like any bus operator or company involved in transportation cannot get drivers, who’d do it? It’s a shit job. Someone explained it right to me a while ago, there is no shortage of drivers, just a shortage of wages that reflect the hours and responsibilities.
I thankfully don’t have to use buses too often but even the Luas is infuriatingly unreliable.
Whoever designed the green line traffic priority through the city centre should be shot, it’s genuinely faster to walk sometimes from Grafton Street up to Dominick Street and any time there’s any sort of protest or disturbance on O’Connell Street (which is basically every week) the whole thing just comes to a halt.
Wouldn’t be tolerated in any other major city for what’s supposed to be the main North/South public transport spine
Dublin bus who operate around 90% of the routes got fined 1.5mil. Go ahead who operate around 10% got fined 850,000.
How does fining a public transport company help improve service 🤔. Surely taking money away makes providing the service harder to do?
Coming from Germany, where I was used to busses coming in couple minutes later (traffic, the amount of people at previous stops coming in and out etc), it shocked me how different it was when I moved here. Busse not coming at all with no announcement whatsoever, just driving past the stop you’re standing at even if they’re not full, and more.
33A good example of this. GoAhead and cancellations are often for no reason.
Why did the luas and Dublin bus get fined? Go ahead is the only real fucking disaster of public transport in this country
After 5pm about 1 in 3 of no. 26 buses actually turn up; funnily enough mid-afternoon (when everyone at work and minimal demand) it’s quite reliable, but mornings and especially evenings are disaster
Tweeted complaints to Dublin bus in several occasions who acknowledge issue and apologise each time, but nothing ever improves
Good, fuck them
50 minutes from Tallaght to Smithfield the other day. I understand Smithfield is in the city centre kind-of, but still, should it realistically be that long?
Please come and do the same in Cork.
I’d say the response to this was them sending the form to be filled in. “We value your feedback so please fill the form so we can do absolutely fuck all about it”
The last time i was on the bus was 2012 and had to take it. Since then been cycling and I’d rather walk than take it. Understand that ther are many people that have no other options which is absolutely painful as they cannot be relied upon to get to work.
Anyways, Dublin bus is as shit as buses in the US. The timetables are to provide guidance
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So when can I expect my cut back on my Leap card?
To the surprise of absolutely no one. Was with a German friend over for the weekend and she couldn’t wrap her head around the concept that the electronic timetable should be treated as more like an estimation than any serious schedule. Late buses, no shows, ghost buses, others disappearing from the timetable for no apparent reason….our public transportation is a shambles. It’s no surprise why people are still in their cars. I actually know people who’ve turned down jobs because of Dublins piss poor transport service. [Tallaght to Dun Laoghaire is less than 13km but a quick Google Maps search there says it’ll take the best part of 2 hours to get there](https://i.imgur.com/rdM1H88.jpeg). It’s just not feasible to be sitting on a bus for 2 hours when driving takes under 30 minutes. I honestly can’t think of any other European capital whose public transportation is so poor.
So let me get this right… instead of providing adequate funding for public transport it’s better to fine them?
Where do the fines go?
In all honesty, what’s the point if it’s not used properly… also for the buses, if they’re privately owned routes and the publicly paid/run drivers are intentionally destroying those services, I hope it gets better media coverage to show how a lot of our Dublin bus routes have been sold to bidders for less than their yearly revenue while still operating their running costs through tax revenue. Dublin bus drivers tried their best to protest this but it was ignored which led to many of them quitting and looking for work else where.
My morning commute went to absolute shit the week Go Ahead Ireland took control of the route.
Suddenly a bus every 10 minutes turned into a empty void between 730 and 830 where maybe a bus or two just kind of randomly shows up and you hope there is still room.
Guess they’ll need to whack the fare up more next year to recoup the losses.
Ended up having to walk 6km to work last week as the Go-Ahead bus never came. Good for the hips, bad for being on time.
Government fines its own public transport that it set up to fail, so it can create an excuse to privatize more of it.
Rinse and repeat for another couple of decades – as the percentage of privatized routes increases more and more.
I know a few lads who work for Dublin bus or are contracted by Dublin bus and they tell me that they don’t have enough drivers to drive the buses, so they’ll never be able to meet their scheduled services. Dublin bus like any bus operator or company involved in transportation cannot get drivers, who’d do it? It’s a shit job. Someone explained it right to me a while ago, there is no shortage of drivers, just a shortage of wages that reflect the hours and responsibilities.
I thankfully don’t have to use buses too often but even the Luas is infuriatingly unreliable.
Whoever designed the green line traffic priority through the city centre should be shot, it’s genuinely faster to walk sometimes from Grafton Street up to Dominick Street and any time there’s any sort of protest or disturbance on O’Connell Street (which is basically every week) the whole thing just comes to a halt.
Wouldn’t be tolerated in any other major city for what’s supposed to be the main North/South public transport spine
Dublin bus who operate around 90% of the routes got fined 1.5mil. Go ahead who operate around 10% got fined 850,000.
How does fining a public transport company help improve service 🤔. Surely taking money away makes providing the service harder to do?
Coming from Germany, where I was used to busses coming in couple minutes later (traffic, the amount of people at previous stops coming in and out etc), it shocked me how different it was when I moved here. Busse not coming at all with no announcement whatsoever, just driving past the stop you’re standing at even if they’re not full, and more.
33A good example of this. GoAhead and cancellations are often for no reason.
Why did the luas and Dublin bus get fined? Go ahead is the only real fucking disaster of public transport in this country
After 5pm about 1 in 3 of no. 26 buses actually turn up; funnily enough mid-afternoon (when everyone at work and minimal demand) it’s quite reliable, but mornings and especially evenings are disaster
Tweeted complaints to Dublin bus in several occasions who acknowledge issue and apologise each time, but nothing ever improves
Good, fuck them
50 minutes from Tallaght to Smithfield the other day. I understand Smithfield is in the city centre kind-of, but still, should it realistically be that long?
Please come and do the same in Cork.
I’d say the response to this was them sending the form to be filled in. “We value your feedback so please fill the form so we can do absolutely fuck all about it”
The last time i was on the bus was 2012 and had to take it. Since then been cycling and I’d rather walk than take it. Understand that ther are many people that have no other options which is absolutely painful as they cannot be relied upon to get to work.
Anyways, Dublin bus is as shit as buses in the US. The timetables are to provide guidance
Great! I feel better now, but will that help?