dublinbuslive.com - live arrival updates for your bus stop on your phone (1 Viewer)

[pete]

FINALLY

http://www.dublinbuslive.com

thanks, Dublin Bus! Oh wait, they didn't develop it.


See also: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/DublinBus2011

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

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The bus stop near my house got one of those fancy display signs a few months ago. It worked one day and was great (saved me hanging around 25 minutes for a bus) and then didnt work again for about 3 months. It works all the time now, I love it.

 

[SomethingManic]

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None around my house yet, but I've used the one in Rathmines a few times. Tis wonderful!

 

[magicbastarder]

Re: dublinbuslive.com - live arrival updates for your bus stop

wasn't there some issue around them being delayed because they don't display in irish as the primary language?

 

[magicbastarder]

Re: dublinbuslive.com - live arrival updates for your bus stop

http://www.herald.ie/national-news/city-news/gaeilgeoir-protests-delay-new-bus-signs-2578542.html

 

[RED(tape)MENACE]

Fucking Gaeilgeoir spas.

 

[The septic]

Now they can start working on making it a usable service. Here's a few things we've had back home for the last 25 years.

• • Integrated tickets- Good for all public transport (bus, train, light rail) for 2 1/2 hours from time of purchase
  • Public transport mall- All services intersect at a central point in the city centre
  • Accessability for cyclists- Bicycle racks on all buses and bikes allowed on all trains.
  • Live arrival updates (don't need GPS if the service is run by people who give a fuck)
    • Free mulit-story car parks at all light rail stops

All that the above requires is for the service and the city in general to not be run by total morons.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Now they can start working on making it a usable service. Here's a few things we've had back home for the last 25 years.

• • Integrated tickets- Good for all public transport (bus, train, light rail) for 2 1/2 hours from time of purchase
  • Public transport mall- All services intersect at a central point in the city centre
  • Accessability for cyclists- Bicycle racks on all buses and bikes allowed on all trains.
  • Live arrival updates (don't need GPS if the service is run by people who give a fuck)
    • Free mulit-story car parks at all light rail stops

All that the above requires is for the service and the city in general to not be run by total morons.

I hear you, but you'd really be better off moving to a city that already has this stuff.

 

[The septic]

I hear you, but you'd really be better off moving to a city that already has this stuff.

Or in my case, moving back. Never liked public transport anyways. Packed full of ugos.

 

[rettucs]

All that the above requires is for the service and the city in general to not be run by total morons.

and therein lies the catch

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Or in my case, moving back. Never liked public transport anyways. Packed full of ugos.

Portland, man.
Let's do it!

 

[Lili Marlene]

If you go to Portland will you tell Carrie Brownstein to stop being really unfunny and start writing music again?

 

[The septic]

Portland, man.
Let's do it!

Right, all I need to do is sell my house for 40% above its current market value and then I'll be ready. You are going to love it there. I hope you don't expect me to avail of the public transport though. I'm American. I drive to the shops at the end of the road.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Right, all I need to do is sell my house for 40% above its current market value and then I'll be ready. You are going to love it there. I hope you don't expect me to avail of the public transport though. I'm American. I drive to the shops at the end of the road.

$8 gas is coming, man. It's coming.

 

[Ferox13]

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The bus stop near my house got one of those fancy display signs a few months ago. It worked one day and was great (saved me hanging around 25 minutes for a bus) and then didnt work again for about 3 months. It works all the time now, I love it.

Me (and most of the other ugos) are all for these fancy displays..

 

[The septic]

Re: dublinbuslive.com - live arrival updates for your bus stop

Me (and most of the other ugos) are all for these fancy displays..

Nothing puts a smile on my face like a happy ugo, or at least a story of ugos being happy, I wouldn't want to actually look at one.

Seriously though, I think it is a great first step for Dublin Bus and I support anything that makes it a better and more usable service. My problem with Dublin Bus is that they just do everything so back asswards. I find it a very uncomfortable experience, it gets very dear if you actually have to transfer to another bus or mode of public transport and half the time I end up waiting 45 minutes for a bus that comes every 15 minutes which in the end renders it so unrelieable as to be un-usable. I'm a cyclist, I hate waiting, even at red lights.

I hope I didn't offend you Ferox with the jibe about ugos. Sure I live in Finglas, we're all ugly here, except for Christy Dignam, he's well fit.