I started out with the intention of visiting Chapelizod today and got the the G2 bus instead of the 26. I knew that the 26 served Chapelizod on it way to Liffey Valley but I missed the 26 by about two minutes and the G2 which goes to Liffey Valley arrived a few minutes later so I boarded it. Much to my surprise it took a very long time to get to Liffey Valley and did not pass through Chapelizod. I was even more surprised to discover that there was a major transport hub at the shopping centre.
In February 2023 The National Transport Authority (NTA) today unveiled a new, €20m bus plaza facility at Liffey Valley Shopping Centre as part of the BusConnects programme being rolled out across the city.
The new bus plaza, 100 feet from the front entrance of the Liffey Valley Shopping Centre, provides a new hub for bus services connecting south and west Dublin, north Kildare and the city centre.
The opening of the new bus plaza will support a 75% increase in bus services. The revised network will see the number of buses increase from 12 buses per hour per direction to 21.
Bus services to the city centre are also expected to increase by 50%. Six bus routes will terminate at the new hub. This includes the “G-Spine” route G2, orbital routes S4, W2, radials 80, and local routes L51 and 53. Located near the N4 footbridge, the bus plaza will also enable easy access to all “C-Spine” routes as well as to orbital route W5 and local route 52.
There is no real time passenger information display making, the problem described, even worse.
When I lived in Carlingford Road this was my local bus stop and I hated it. Unless you have used it you may not appreciate what the problem is. The bus shelter is positioned in such a way that one cannot see an approaching bus until it has actually passed the stop.
On a wet day the stop is very badly exposed and even then it can be difficult to see an approaching bus to the extent that the bus drivers frequently just drive by without stopping.
Dublin Bus was established on 2 February 1987, when Córas Iompair Éireann was split into 3 subsidiaries, Dublin Bus, Bus Eireann and Irish Rail. In September 2011, Dublin Bus received a significant technological upgrade with its introduction of real time passenger information.
TAXI DRIVER BLOCKS THE 150 BUS CASTLE STREET – WERBURGH STREET
This was a strange place for the taxi to park as he effectively blocked two streets.
This may have been the first time that I used the 90mm Macro Lens with my Sony A7RIV. I was really annoyed as I spent a lot of money on a Sony A7RIV camera body shortly before the arrival of Covid-19 here in Ireland and as a result had little opportunity to use it. In many ways the 90mm, even though it is a G lens rather than a GM lens, is my best lens. https://phillipreeve.net/blog/review-sony-fe-90mm-f2-8-macro-oss-one-of-sonys-finest/
In the medieval period, Castle Street was a hive of activity and commerce, lined with timber-caged houses and shops, home to bookbinders, saddlers, armourers and taverns, flanking the defensive walls of Dublin Castle.
Werburgh Street derived its name from a church erected there after the Anglo – Norman settlement, which was dedicated to Saint Werburgh, patron of Chester.
DUBLIN CASTLE – UPPER AND LOWER COURTYARDS EASTER SUNDAY 2021
Usually Dublin Castle is packed at Easter especially as the 1916 Easter Rising is commemorate on Easter Sunday but as you can see from my photographs the upper courtyard was almost deserted.
Today I had a discussion, via Zoom, with a friend from China and one from Korea, and I mentioned that we normally commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising on Easter Sunday. Both were surprised in different ways as one thought that Ireland was part of England and the other thought that Ireland was always independent.
TAXI DRIVE BLOCKS THE 150 BUS [CASTLE STREET – WERBURGH STREET]
This was a strange place for the taxi to park as he effectively blocked two streets.
This may have been the first time that I used the 90mm Macro Lens with my Sony A7RIV. I was really annoyed as I spent a lot of money on a Sony A7RIV camera body shortly before the arrival of Covid-19 here in Ireland and as a result had little opportunity to use it. In many ways the 90mm, even though it is a G lens rather than a GM lens, is my best lens. https://phillipreeve.net/blog/review-sony-fe-90mm-f2-8-macro-oss-one-of-sonys-finest/
In the medieval period, Castle Street was a hive of activity and commerce, lined with timber-caged houses and shops, home to bookbinders, saddlers, armourers and taverns, flanking the defensive walls of Dublin Castle.
Werburgh Street derived its name from a church erected there after the Anglo – Norman settlement, which was dedicated to Saint Werburgh, patron of Chester.
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