Comments on: Bus Eireann bus breakdown

By: aj@lecraic

aj@lecraic — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:18:55 +0000

ditto the Wicklow route serves other areas through to Wicklow town too – which I didn’t tot up into the equation. Regards “whingeing” – we’ve been promised new buses and services for a long time and Bus Eireann keep giving excuses. If the situation were reversed and you were subject to buses breaking down (we had another incident last Wednesday), and saw other routes with shiny new coaches, you might wonder the same thing. What should we do – say nothing like the Irish usually do?

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 21:51:09 +0000

the edenderry bus serves celbridge, straffan, clane, prosperous, allenwood… if you tot it all up. it’s quite a lot of poeple..there are something like six services between 7 am and 8am to town from edendrery..it’s always full by clane ..ditto the return services at rush-hour.. there’s a lot wrong with bus eireann but i think whinging about the edenderry service is a bit wide of the mark as, along with the newbridge bus, it’s the only major service into north kildare… which is one of most heavily populated commuter sprawls south of dublin….

By: aj@lecraic

aj@lecraic — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:53:00 +0000

Sounds like you had a time of it Ursula. Lucky escape too with the glass shattering like that.

Hi Debbie, thanks – I’ve just got fed up with their lack of response. Posting to the blog helps with the frustration!

By: Debbie

Debbie — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:26:20 +0000

Brilliant post AJ, well said.

By: Ursula

Ursula — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:40:31 +0000

Dearest AJ, obviously I feel for you. As someone who comes from the “Continent”, and this will be no comfort to you at all, once you hop the channel onto these isles your public transport destiny is your own; most certainly don’t expect to be on time. Though seems that the Irish have taken it to a slightly higher level than, say, the English.

Do remind me to tell you sorry saga of missing my plane back to civilization – as I knew it then – when shortly after boarding Glasgow Sleeper in Carlisle and making myself comfortable in lower bunk the window shattered into millions of pieces – landing on my bed. Miraculously I escaped unscathed – neither was there anywhere else on train to accommodate me. Wouldn’t have been allowed on, say, the Orient Express. On top of which this high speed train then arrived in London hours too late for me to catch my flight. Oh, AJ, that’s just the beginning of an odyssee and a story I have been dining out on for years.

For a long time, confirmed in my experience again and again, I blamed myself that public transport over here and I don’t mix. Reading your account I now wish I’d moved to Ireland in the first place to send me back screaming to some mainland European woods for good.

Wishing you a safe, if not guaranteed, journey into Cranksville,