Dublin Bus - part 23
I've no idea what part # of my adventures with dublin bus this is but isn't getting to the end. ;)
As you may or may not know, I vowed to dublin bus sometime last year that they should improve their service or force another customer into a car (doing the complete opposite of what they should be doing).
Anyway - today, forgetting that things in this wonderful country never change, decided to get the bus into barrow street. So i wander over to the 77/77A/50 stop near my house and it's gone... nothing left of it at all. not unusual - this is dublin bus... ;)
a few more people turn up and about 15-20mins later a bus finally shows but fails to stop. hmm... again this isn't overly unusual. though the bus was half empty which indicates either a really bad driver or something amiss.
anyway - the crew of 4 at the now non-existant bus stop wait patiently for the 2nd bus (cuurently on the other side of the infamous walkinstown roundabout). this bus also passes us all by and the driver makes some indication that he isn't stopping... really odd...
so having been left in this stranded state on many an occasion before i grab the number of dublin bus from the stop across the road and ring them. at the same time our crew of 4 make their way to the next nearest bus stop some 5-10mins away. finally i get through to the ringsend garage and am told the following...
"the gardai requested the bus stop to be removed. we put up a temporary solution but that has also been removed at the request of the gardai. no buses will stopping at that point any more. i calmly explained (this is a lie - i was furious - but anyway) that if they had any cop on they would have left a sign so people wouldn't spend 20-30mins of their lives waiting at a stop that didn't exist and which buses weren't going to stop at... i insisted they put a sign in place by the afternoon to save fellow customers such annoyance. i hang up...
another bus appears on the horizon. joy! i'll make it to work on time. bus draws nearer... yep - it's the infamous "out of service" route...
i give in. i've had enough... i walk to the local atm, grab money and grab a cab at the local rank. life is too short...
[update: 10.55am]
i get a call from some guy in dublin bus - probably following up to the voicemail i left earlier. nice guy! he explains about the bus stop and why it was removed (all valid reasons) and is very apologetic about the situation and that they should have done more. he said a temporary solution would be in place by the afternoon and there should well have been an inspector at the stop to ensure buses stopped - drivers had been told to stop but hadn't.
so to sum up dublin bus - plenty of nice people working there. couldn't run a public transport service if they tried...
As you may or may not know, I vowed to dublin bus sometime last year that they should improve their service or force another customer into a car (doing the complete opposite of what they should be doing).
Anyway - today, forgetting that things in this wonderful country never change, decided to get the bus into barrow street. So i wander over to the 77/77A/50 stop near my house and it's gone... nothing left of it at all. not unusual - this is dublin bus... ;)
a few more people turn up and about 15-20mins later a bus finally shows but fails to stop. hmm... again this isn't overly unusual. though the bus was half empty which indicates either a really bad driver or something amiss.
anyway - the crew of 4 at the now non-existant bus stop wait patiently for the 2nd bus (cuurently on the other side of the infamous walkinstown roundabout). this bus also passes us all by and the driver makes some indication that he isn't stopping... really odd...
so having been left in this stranded state on many an occasion before i grab the number of dublin bus from the stop across the road and ring them. at the same time our crew of 4 make their way to the next nearest bus stop some 5-10mins away. finally i get through to the ringsend garage and am told the following...
"the gardai requested the bus stop to be removed. we put up a temporary solution but that has also been removed at the request of the gardai. no buses will stopping at that point any more. i calmly explained (this is a lie - i was furious - but anyway) that if they had any cop on they would have left a sign so people wouldn't spend 20-30mins of their lives waiting at a stop that didn't exist and which buses weren't going to stop at... i insisted they put a sign in place by the afternoon to save fellow customers such annoyance. i hang up...
another bus appears on the horizon. joy! i'll make it to work on time. bus draws nearer... yep - it's the infamous "out of service" route...
i give in. i've had enough... i walk to the local atm, grab money and grab a cab at the local rank. life is too short...
[update: 10.55am]
i get a call from some guy in dublin bus - probably following up to the voicemail i left earlier. nice guy! he explains about the bus stop and why it was removed (all valid reasons) and is very apologetic about the situation and that they should have done more. he said a temporary solution would be in place by the afternoon and there should well have been an inspector at the stop to ensure buses stopped - drivers had been told to stop but hadn't.
so to sum up dublin bus - plenty of nice people working there. couldn't run a public transport service if they tried...
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