Quality Bus Corridor on North Wall Quay
July 12th, 2008
Swords Express has been working with the authorities to support provision of a bus lane along North Wall Quay. This should shave five minutes or longer off the morning trip into the city and it should allow evening services to run closer to schedule on days with heavy traffic, as they will be able to make the return trip from Swords much more quickly. Bus shelters along the Quays will also make the wait much more comfortable.
Because of the way the QBN office has designed the scheme, the bus lanes will have almost no impact on the amount of space available for car traffic.
This scheme has been in planning for many months. It is hoped that the work can begin in the summer, and we are looking forward to Swords commuters being able to benefit from it when the heavy winter traffic begins. So that will be another reason to leave your car behind and take the Swords Express.
Work on the North Wall QBC is expected to start on 4 September, subject to finalizing a consultation with the Dublin Docklands Development Authority.
July 14th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
Your new evening timetable is a bit of a disaster - long queues of miserable/furious customers being left to stand for up to an hour at the IFSC… I thought you had fixed this problem! but the frequency of buses after 5.30 is back to every twenty minutes (used to be a bus at 17.45 and another at 1750, and in the unlikely event both were full, there was one at 1805)- anyone who finishes work around the IFSC at 5.30 can forget getting home before seven. It’s not really an express service in the evening if you have to stand for forty five minutes waiting for a bus that’s not full…
July 24th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Why not make the first stop at Georges Quay (Ulster Bank), allow people to get on here, straight across the bridge - Butt, not O’Connell - , and down by the IFSC which would then be the 2nd stop northwards and cut out the Laughter Lounge totally. It is manic here, no queue, pushing, and jossling to get on the bus, as so many otherCIE bus pulling in etc. This would shave at least 10 minutes off the journey to Swords, and ensure that the bus is on time. It is totally frustrating and a bit of a gamble having to see if you can board the bus at the IFSC.