Swords Express

We now have plenty of capacity on all our evening services. On the odd occasion when certain buses fill up (usually because there has been a traffic delay) we have an extra bus a few minutes behind. Read the rest of this entry »

Transport is basically all about keeping on schedule. We take timekeeping very seriously, and our customers do too. When we fall off schedule, we get phone calls looking to see what’s going on, and rightly so. So what makes us go off-schedule - simple answer is traffic. There are a few things that cause the traffic to go crazy in Dublin.

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Moving past the now-gutted Point Depot it was clear that it would take a multi-vehicle pile-up to stop us getting to our destination on time. Crossing the Liffey in jig time, the Swords Express dropped me at a bus stop just outside Tara Street Dart Station at 14:33, a journey time of just 22 minutes.

(Quote from article by Conor Feehan in yesterday’s Evening Herald.)

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Our timetable (download PDFversion for easy printing) is our promise. Part of the reason we designed our route the way we did was so we can keep the promise as well as we could, whilst keeping prices reasonable (remember we don’t have state investment or a state subsidy).

They said it couldn’t be done (well one commenter said so anyway on our timetables page) but we kept the core promise of Swords Express on the first day. We managed to get around the route regularly in the target time of 35 minutes to town, 30 minutes out. Quite often we were able to do it even faster. The odd time we were a bit slower in the heavy rain, but not by much. Read the rest of this entry »