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Right, I totally forgot that the bus network here is only there to fill the gaps between the tram lines, which might not be the case in other places.

• rsynnott 1y ago
  Yeah, there's a route (or set of closely related routes) near my office which, at peak times, has a 100 person double decker bus about once per _minute_. Really, it should be a tram route, but that would require building a tram line, and Dublin tends to see that as an immense undertaking to be done only once a decade or so (and this decade's one is already planned out).
  • Scoundreller 1y ago
    Have they made any efforts to make peak demand... less peaky? That's kinda a problem with big capex transit projects: you're spending all this cash to 24/7 fix a problem that only exists for 5-10 hours/week.
    • vladvasiliu 1y ago
      This is what kills me where I live, too. I can’t understand why everyone insists on commuting exactly at the same time. Before WFH became a thing here, I just moved my office hours one hour earlier. I went from being sardine-packed to ample seating space. Bonus points for the buses and trains running faster, so my commute was not only orders of magnitude more comfortable, it was also much shorter ! Yes, I understand not everyone can do this, but the point is for people to be spread over a wider time range. Many people don’t have children to get to school and whatnot, a sizable chunk of them could probably move their hours a bit earlier or later.