Bus Eireann

[Meridian]

Also PAD 128 arrived down from Limerick last week so that makes it 3 of those city Hybrid deckers down here now.

And PAD 128 had to go back to Limerick, the " super duper " silly electric double deckers are giving issues already

 

[rebel bike]

They have all arrived now, all 10 of them. LF's 223, 224 and 225 arrived down yesterday and all went into service today

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Are these the same size as the existing DBL. Deckers? Maybe it's the glass but they seem longer.

 

[Crisp Sandwich]

A quick question. What does 'scheduled' mean on the TFI live departures' web page?

It means fuck-all, I'd say. Or about as much as "Due" which becomes "Cancelled" or just disappears off the app totally.

Google Maps is actually far more accurate in terms of bus arrivals.

The 214 must be the most frustrating bus route/service in Cork. It's the epitome of the old "wait 60 mins and then two appear at once". The fact that it services the train station makes the whole thing even more laughable.

I was walking along Proby's Quay recently and two 214 double-deckers passed by bumper-to-bumper. The first one half full, the second basically empty.

What's the point in that?

 

[gaffer falls]

Same with the 220, two following each other How does that even happen?

 

[Meridian]

Are these the same size as the existing DBL. Deckers? Maybe it's the glass but they seem longer.

No the LF's are as such coaches, as in they are more comfortable and are for longer distance travel.
The LF's are 14 meters long, the typical double deckers are 10 meters long, some of them are single door ones and they are just over 12 meters long.

 

[Meridian]

Same with the 220, two following each other How does that even happen?

For most of the route, they cannot pass one another.
If a road is wide enough and if the first bus pulls in, the one following can pass, assuming that no one on that second bus is getting off at that stop.

The bus 2 becomes bus 1 and he now is the first to arrive at the stops so he stops and after a while the other catches up again.

When they get to their destination terminus, Union rules kick in and they have their break.

Once the brake is over one will go off service and will take a short cut back to the middle of the route and then resume the route from there.

 

[Meridian]

This is the problem when you have Dublin rule and no local knowledge

On a typical journey from Blackpool to Douglas, the average car journey time has increased by about 25%-30% from 2019-2023 — that’s a very significant increase,” she said, giving one example

Stupid thing to say of course as during that time period the traffic flow in the area around Mc Curtain Street was all changed and that fucked up the travel time as that misinformed Dumplin visitor came out with

Reliability and punctuality on bus services in Cork 'has been very poor in the last six months,' NTA chief says

Anne Graham made the comments yesterday at Cork Chamber’s latest Business Breakfast event.

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