Hey Old Timer!

Well well look who's still going around!



Summerhills DF450 operaing the Dublin Ghost Bus Tour seen at the rear of St. Patricks Park looking fantastic for its age!

In the mountains..

Well kind of..!
Ringsends WV3 operating route 201 seen turning around at its terminus at Bohernabreena (photo taken just after the church)
Route 201 is a local service, operating from Citywest Industrial Estate, serving Killinarden, The Square Shopping Centre , Tallaght Hospital , Tallaght Village , Old Bawn Road & Bohernabreena Church.
The route operates Monday to Saturday using Ringsend fleet of WV class buses, with the odd double decker seen from time to time.

Multilingual Madness!

Tried finding AV179 today, a new one in the Dublin Bus Tour fleet - but I kept missing it. Tomorrow's another day!
For now though, AV23 operating the Multilingual Tour at stop number deux! (thats French for two!)

Wet Wet Wet

Oh Dear,
There hasn't been many updates lately has there?
Well to be honest the weather hasn’t exactly been great to be out snapping now has it?
Even with all the floods, I still managed to get out one of the days, (which was properly the worst I could have picked) and snapped AV440 about to cross onto O’Connell Bridge heading towards UCD Belfield on route 10.

Enjoy!

Is the traffic making you see red ?

Is the traffic making you see red ?




Maybe you're just hungry !

Harristowns AV217 on route 83 is seen in Glasnevin heading to Kimmage - its mega rear says it all..

Low Floor 75

With all these transfers & withdrawals happening, Dublin Bus have made 5 more routes fully wheelchair accessible.

The 7a,31,31b,67x,& 75 will all be operated with low floor buses from Monday 11th August 2008

The 75 was one that I am happy with, over the last few years anything could turn up on it, and was very rare to see anything other than an RA/RV on it.
But over the past few weeks, AV's and AX's have been operating the route, with the odd RV.

So heres a photo of (whats going to be) a common sight.

AX611 on the 75 on Sunday 10th August 2008 in Tallaght Village.

Aren't they lovely !

Over the last few years, Dublin Bus have brought new types of buses into operation, the VT & EV. The VT (Enviro 500's) first arrived in the batch of VT1-20 in 2005 and were allocated to Donnybrook Garage, where they still are today for that high frequency route 46a (City Centre-Dún Laoghaire).

Then they launched the EV (Enviro 400's) in Summer 2007, spreading them around Dublin Bus garages in a batch EV1-50.

Then in 2008, they brought more of the VT class into service, another 50 in a batch VT21-70.

They were delivered in batches & took a couple of months for all to arrive. VT21 was the last to arrive as this was a trial bus for a company in Sweden, and has only recently arrived.This batch are allocated to Phibsboro, for routes 10,39 & 70.

The 2005 VT Class :

VT13 on the Stillorgan Road on route 46A

The 2007 EV Class :

EV46 & EV33 on Eden Quay on routes 27B & 84

The 2007 VT Class :

VT40 on route 70 at College Green.

Whats your opinion on these buses ? Do you like them ? Leave a comment now !

Those taxi's !

Well, its the first of many post for the site so lets make it something we all know.

Taxis' using bus lanes ; wats your view on it ? leave a comment.

The one at the bottom of Sth. Great Georges Street in the City Centre really annoys me, its bad enough its 50% of taxi's using it, but then for them to make things harder for buses turning from Dame Street.

Mr. Taxi man has his own invisible white line in which he stops at !!

New Owner

Well, finally Bus Scene Dublin will be updated, now with a new owner, the blog will focus on the Bus Scene in the North & South side of the city.

Updates will be regular.

Comments are welcome as always.

well, thats it so... enjoy the new & improved Bus Scene Dublin Blog.

New Owner?

Theres rumours flying around at Bus Scene Dublin HQ this morning of a new owner. Stay tuned for futher info.........