I’m not a professional campaigner but am incensed at the plan to curtail my local Dublin service. It’s a service. It serves many elderly people who depend in it. There are always queues for the bus along the route. It’s infrequent and often delayed as it is. We’re not starting from Nirvana, so what on earth will the new service be like- both on paper and in reality?

I think the entire dublin bus service and routes need a complete overhaul. I don’t know why almost all services and all new services in the last 10 years have to go through college green or O’Connell St. …..unions won’t allow them to improve though

I thought they had just had an overhaul?

From Crumlin to City Centre, the routes are actually really reliable and direct. Like the 83 and the 150 (although i do understand that has changed in recent weeks)

Privatize the routes Dublin bus doesn’t want to run.. let some else try…

Dublin bus has a pretty antiquated system.

Several of its oldest routes are based on old tram lines that ended at Nelson’s pillar. the rest of the network is barely more advanced than that.

It doesn’t use the M50 or the port tunnel to its advantage. The “quality bus corridors” are mainly a joke, and to many busy roads are used as bus bottlenecks just because they are central.

Now Dublin doesn’t have the easiest road system to navigate but as it stands its a mess.

A serious overhaul of routes and the traffic flow system are needed.

with good routing and even Bus Rapid Transit in some areas we could vastly improve the service. And cover more areas more directly than spending hundreds of millions on Tram and underground systems.

What’s stopping this? Unions, lobbyists, local authorities, local politicians and stuborn sentimentality.

We can service most of Dublin with a good bus network and re-route and upgrade it for a maximum (hypothetically)130 million. Where as luas and dart upgrades together would cost a few billion by the time we ever see them.