Just the ticket...

While tour bus drivers are usually the ones issuing the tickets, there was a shock for tour bus ticket sellers parked illegally on O'Connell St. this week... A Garda car turned up and ticketed the vehicles for being parked in a bus lane and clearway!

Personally, it annoys the hell out of me that both Dublin Bus & Dualway park along the street blocking bus stops and the traffic flow. While RH103 is sitting proud at its official stop, its the buses parked a long the rest of the street, in particular near the Abbey St. junction which make things dangerous.

Here's hoping the Gardai are working on a more visible campaign to rid the street of this unnecessary tour bus parking!

Dualway puts another ex Dublin Bus RA into service...

Former Donnybrook RA256 has joined former Clontarf RA273 on tours duties with Dualway.

For more photos, click here.

Phoenix Park shuttle...

A new shuttle service for the Phoenix Park is now in operation...

A photo feature is now online on the main irishdecker.com site.

I'm lovin' it!

Incitement to fare evasion! This McDonalds ad has started to appear internally on buses recently, I think its clever marketing... and shows the good value of Dublin Bus fares too!

Trueform for Aircoach

Aircoach has now followed Dublin Bus and Swords Express by installing new Transport for London style bus stops, manufactured by Trueform Engineering.

They look much better than the old stops, one of which featured on this blog before as it has reached the lowest low, of its timetable being on the ground!

Keep it down!

Have earphones become too expensive these days???

I have no problem with people listening to music on the bus, I listen to my radio during most journeys, but why do some people have to sit there with their music on loudspeaker so the whole bus can hear it??? If I want to listen to that song, then I'll put it on my own ipod! Then to add insult to injury everyone on the bus was subjected to an attempt to sing along to the song too... Don't give up the day job!!!

Maybe Dublin Bus could invest in some of these TfL style posters...

That little bit...

If your a bus user (or driver!) and your reading this then you know exactly how this feels...

The bus lane ahead is empty.... but were not moving, you glance forward and the corner of another vehicle is just blocking the bus lane ever so slightly... This small inch means a bus grinds to a halt despite the empty bus lane ahead, and if the way doesn't clear quickly, soon enough there will be a queue of buses waiting... and waiting...

Its so frustrating... and wastes so much time... so if your a motorist reading this please be considerate and keep to the other side of the white line...