Dublin Cork Passenger Survey

[comcor]

Hmmm...

That sounds barely credible within the speed limits

252km between Dublin and Cork

149km with a speed limits of 100km/h for a bus
91km with a speed limits of 80km/h for a bus
12km with a lower speed limit of 30km/h to 60 km/h

That all adds up to just over 2h 50 mins.

So are they expecting incredibly benign traffic lights or are they building speeding into the schedule?

Quite frankly, at bad times of day, you could lose that at Dunkettle alone.

[Kilocharlie]

Originally Posted by comcor

Hmmm...

That sounds barely credible within the speed limits

252km between Dublin and Cork

149km with a speed limits of 100km/h for a bus
91km with a speed limits of 80km/h for a bus
12km with a lower speed limit of 30km/h to 60 km/h

That all adds up to just over 2h 50 mins.

So are they expecting incredibly benign traffic lights or are they building speeding into the schedule?

Quite frankly, at bad times of day, you could lose that at Dunkettle alone.

Speed limit for buses is 80km/h! See Rules of the Road http://www.rotr.ie/rules-for-driving...-vehicles.html

[comcor]

And yet here's a government website that says it's 100km/h on a motorway

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/en...n_ireland.html

Nice to see consistency...

[Colm Moore]

From Cork
3.2km @ 50km/h = 0h04
2.8km @ 60km/h = 0h03
236km @ 100km/h = 2h22
2.9km @ 60km/h = 0h03
5.2km @ 50km/h = 0h06
1.0km @ 30km/h = 0h02

Total 2h39 (congestion and toll plazas aside)

Originally Posted by Kilocharlie

Speed limit for buses is 80km/h! See Rules of the Road http://www.rotr.ie/rules-for-driving...-vehicles.html

That is out of date. See: http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2008/en/si/0546.html

Originally Posted by Traincustomer

Interestingly Aircoach have today commenced an express coach service on their existing Cork to Dublin route which completes the journey between the two city centres in 3 hours. (3 and a half hours Cork to Dublin Airport).

Only the express services are scheduled for 3 hours Cork-Dublin. Stopping services are scheduled to take 3h45.

http://www.aircoach.ie/table.routes.cork.php

[Thomas Ralph]

The survey seems to think you can use a smartcard to travel from Dublin-Cork