Between 16:30 and 17:40 the Midland line was used, once the DART was cleared services recommenced via Drumcondra

It was a reasonable trade off to skip Drumcondra

Maybe someone should write to Olivia Mitchell and point out how things would have been different with interconnector available, since she's something of a sceptic.

How does a wire that is less than 3(?) years old snap? You would expect it to either snap soon after fitting or many years down the line.

Coming from one of the DB drivers on boards.ie its only 2 buses total - one northside, one southside. They could however put the (open topped) tour buses into service in such situations.

Yes but there is always loads more parked around the city streets clogging them up, doing nothing.

Or maybe they're parked up waiting to take up the next duty on their roster? Or while the drivers are resting. It's all very well to say they're parked but it doesn't mean they can be yanked from their own routes when Irish Rail mess up. If all those parked up buses were sent out at 5.30 to cover the first rush, there'd be a whole lot of annoyed people at 6.30 wondering where there buses had gone to.

I guess it highlights a point about the lack of a DTA with overall authority and the ability to dictate where buses should be directed to if another operator falls over.

In all my years of taking Dublin buses, I've never known them to routinely leave the terminus at the time it says on the bus-stop, so, would it make any difference?

While this was going on, Dublin Bus had 50 buses sitting in Broadstone that they aren't allowed use by the DoT.

I got the 3 every morning for a summer. you could set your watch by it 8:13 +/- 1min every day.


Yeah, It's funny how our dear leaders won't interfere in commercial operations of state companies unless it's CIE, Victor.
especially the minister for health..

DB are also paying some drivers not to drive those busses too...

around 300 actually