New bus stops
March 12th, 2008
Our new bus stops are being installed this week (poles today, flags tomorrow we expect). I hope you agree that they look really great. We’ll have timetables up on them by the weekend.
Extra morning service
March 6th, 2008
We’re leaving people behind in the morning, and so we are adding an extra service. It will be at 7.55 am. The 8am service will be moved to 8.05am.
UPDATE: In the meantime, here’s some suggestions about the busiest services.
Port Tunnel delays
February 27th, 2008
The Port Tunnel is closed in both directions and this is going to cause major disruption during the rush hour (although we’ve been able to operate a basic service all day). We plan to deal with this by sending out two extra buses. We do not expect to be exactly on schedule, but we do plan to have enough capacity to get all our customers home. Read the rest of this entry »
A bus every 15 minutes from 7.30 to 9.15 and 1645 until 1915
February 22nd, 2008
From Monday we are increasing our peak time frequency. There will be a bus roughly every 15 minutes during the peaks, and this will mean that the load will be better spread. (Because we didn’t have a service between 7.06 and 7.40 before and a gap again between 8.24 and 9 o’clock, there was a lot of overcrowding.)
We have changed our weekend services too. There is now a later bus on Saturday evenings (1951). We have reduced Sunday and Holiday services because of relatively low demand, but there is still coverage for the whole day.
The new timetable commencing Monday 25 Feb is below.
Monday-Friday
Swords to City
0634 0706
every 15 minutes from 0730 until 0915
0945 1000
1030 1133 1205 1252
1339 1411 1445 1524
1609 1630 1715 1730
1807 1823 1839 1910
1930
City to Swords
0710 0742
Approx. very 15 minutes from 0806 until 0806 until 0951
1021 1036
1106 1209 1241 1328
1415 1447 1524 1600
Approx. every 15 minutes from 1645 until 1900.
1946 2018
Saturday
Swords to City
0800 0930 1100 1200
1300 1400 1500 1600
1700 1800 1915
City to Swords
0836 1006 1136 1236
1336 1436 1536 1636
1730 1836 1951
Sunday and Holidays
Swords to City
0800 0930 1100 1330
1500 1630 1800
City to Swords
0836 1006 1136 1406
1536 1706 1836
Extra buses for extra passengers
January 16th, 2008
We’ve been very busy for the last few days at peak times. As a result, we’re adding two extra buses starting tomorrow. There will be an extra bus from Swords to the city at around 0740 from tomorrow (Thursday) morning. It may depart slightly behind schedule depending on the loading of the bus before it. In the evening, there will be a bus departing Eden Quay for Swords at 1640 in the evening. We expect that these extra services will relieve the congestion on the main services. It will also mean a shorter gap between services between 4.06 and 5.09 which will be convenient for many commuters.
Taxsaver tickets on Swords Express
January 11th, 2008
We finally have our taxsaver tickets available for the Swords Express service. This means that you can have the convenience of a monthly or yearly ticket instead of having to fork out change every time you get on board, and means that you can travel on the service as much as you like for as little as EUR 1.40 a day when the tax saving is taken into account.
Christmas Services
December 20th, 2007
We will provide a full service every day over Christmas except for the following:
- Christmas Day (Tuesday 25 December)
- St. Stephen’s Day (Wednesday 26 December)
- New Year’s Day (Tuesday 1 January 2008).
All fares from the following days will go to local Swords Primary Schools so we especially encourage you to use the Swords Express those days:
- Sunday 23 December
- Saturday 29 December
- Sunday 30 December
We hope you will help make these the busiest weekends of the year so we can make a big contribution to schools in Swords!
Major improvement to weekday rush-hour service from city; change to Swords-city service
December 12th, 2007
Beginning tomorrow (Thursday 13 December 2007) we are modifying our timetable to ensure that our rush-hour buses from the city have plenty of time to reach Eden Quay. This is in response to serious problems over the past week which resulted in long delays for large numbers of passengers travelling home to Swords.
This change will also impact on passengers travelling from Swords.
Another week on the Swords Express
November 30th, 2007
We’ve had an interesting Express week. A lot of good things have happened. There’s been great coverage in the newspapers, especially the local ones that really count, some radio on Today FM and good passenger numbers. Most important, customers are pretty satisified with the service, and that’s what’s really important.
There are some issues though, and we are happy to tell you how we are addressing them. Read the rest of this entry »
Swords Express running from 19 November
November 15th, 2007
Swords Express will operate from 19 November, with the first service leaving for the city for the Pavillions Shopping Centre at 0634. Check out the timetables page or download the PDF leaflet with all the details in it and a map showing the stops.
We are looking forward to your support on the first day. We expect the services from Swords at 07.37 , 07.53, 08.09 and 08.24 in particular to be popular. The first pick-up point will be at the Dublin Bus bus stop outside Penney’s (Pavillions Shopping Centre) on Dublin Street.
The fare is €3 one-way and you can pay on the bus. We think this is pretty good value for a rapid, fully-seated service. We don’t receive any subsidies from the taxpayer.