Bus rant

[PaulM]

I just felt like ranting about buses for a while. I thought I would put it in the Public section in the hope that a competant person with authority (if there is a competant one) may read it and do something.

1) Irish. Why do the "timetables" have all the main stops in Irish and not in English? Then it has the "Expected journey times" which normally have two or three stop in English so you can work out the bus goes to those three places and nothing more. (Note: I needed Irish to get into University so I am relatively competant in it.)

2) Out of service busses. Currently I am staying in Ballsbridge and work in Blackrock. Everyday at the same time I see 4 "out of service" EMPTY buses. Meanwhile the crowd at the stop grows and grows. The 'every 15 minute' 7 comes 45 minutes after the last one and is instantly full. Meanwhile "Out of Service" buses have probably gone to Donnybrook or town. Excellent use of resources DB.

3) Smoking. How come busses have been non-smoking for over 10 years and it is illegal to smoke where people work in this country yet bus drivers are aloud smoke on buses? Atleast they seem to be because too frequently I see this.