Swords Express

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.

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There will be extra capacity and some new services from Monday onwards to deal with the lack of capacity we’ve had over the last few weeks. Changes as follows on the weekday timetable:

Extra bus at 08.05 hrs

Extra bus at 17.45hrs.

In addition we changed some of the times as follows;

08.00hrs from Swords changes to 07.55hrs

18.07hrs from Swords changes to 17.55hrs

17.00hrs from City changes to 17.05hrs

17.15hrs from City changes to 17.20hrs

18.05hrs from City changes to 18.10hrs

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.

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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 »

Timetable changes are working OK. We still have a problem in the peak with capacity. We will add an extra bus either Friday or Monday. Certain buses were full, as follows.

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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

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.

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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.

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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!

We thought about sending cards or giving out freebies, but decided that the best way to thank the people of Swords for their support over the last month is through supporting the children of Swords. We are going to donate all the cash fares we collect for three days to the primary schools of Swords. We are contributing all the fares for the following days: 23 December (next Sunday), 29 December and 30 December.

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