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Volker Boelsch Premium Member Group moderator
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Re: What do the bus numbers tell you?
Natalie Kobel schrieb:

There we found out, that the bus 77 we took in the morning was on a wrong route and simply had forgot to change the number!
I like this story! It's so likely to have happened to pretty much everyone of us - or at least something similar!

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- 21 Jul 2005, 10:15 pm
Volker Boelsch wrote: > Natalie Kobel schrieb: > > > There we found out, that the bus 77 we took in the morning was on a > > wrong route and simply had forgot to change the number! > > I like this story! It's so likely to have happened to pretty much > everyone of us - or at least something similar! > > Volker
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Re^2: What do the bus numbers tell you?
One of the more famous bus routes is the 46A, which a lot of "Southsiders" can associate with. Some Dubliners get nostalgic when they here the song "Summer in Dublin" from Bagatelle, which includes a line "but my humming was smothered by a 46A and the scream of a low-flying jet". Another line is "a drunk on the bus told me how to get rich - I was glad we weren't going too far". How do I know the song? Well for anyone growing up in dublin in the 80s it the type of song/ballad where everyone sings/moths along to the lyrics. For this generation still second to the classic Dublin song from U2, "Bad".

But it's not all bad on the bus. I spent some of my time in Dublin commuting into town (62 or 46A or 10 or 86 or 5). Some of these go so frequently they were a fairly relaible way of moving around. Others were, well, you were lucky if you made it to the bus stop around the time it was supposed to appear, and got the bus for sometimes it didn't show up or had passed by a few mintues ahead of schedule, or came twenty minutes later (the number 5 was/is far less relaible than the 46A).

Usually the 86, for example, took 40 minutes to take me out of town. A few times the bus driver used to stop at his house en route and have a tea break. another driver broke all records and traffic rules, left people at bus stops standing, and got me home in twenty minutes!

Another aspect: chatting about bus numbers is a typical way of finding out (in pubs) where the person you are talking to lives. Buses are an almost as typical subject to small-talk about as the changeable weather, how slow traffic is, anti-smoking laws and clsoing-times/extensions.
- 29 Jul 2005, 9:46 pm
Enda Mannion wrote: > One of the more famous bus routes is the 46A, which a lot of > "Southsiders" can associate with. Some Dubliners get nostalgic when > they here the song "Summer in Dublin" from Bagatelle, which includes > a line "but my humming was smothered by a 46A and the scream of a > low-flying jet". Another line is "a drunk on the bus told me how to > get rich - I was glad we weren't going too far". How do I know the > song? Well for anyone growing up in dublin in the 80s it the type of > song/ballad where everyone sings/moths along to the lyrics. For this > generation still second to the classic Dublin song from U2, "Bad". > > But it's not all bad on the bus. I spent some of my time in Dublin > commuting into town (62 or 46A or 10 or 86 or 5). Some of these go so > frequently they were a fairly relaible way of moving around. Others > were, well, you were lucky if you made it to the bus stop around the > time it was supposed to appear, and got the bus for sometimes it > didn't show up or had passed by a few mintues ahead of schedule, or > came twenty minutes later (the number 5 was/is far less relaible than > the 46A). > > Usually the 86, for example, took 40 minutes to take me out of town. > A few times the bus driver used to stop at his house en route and > have a tea break. another driver broke all records and traffic rules, > left people at bus stops standing, and got me home in twenty minutes! > > Another aspect: chatting about bus numbers is a typical way of > finding out (in pubs) where the person you are talking to lives. > Buses are an almost as typical subject to small-talk about as the > changeable weather, how slow traffic is, anti-smoking laws and > clsoing-times/extensions.
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Re^3: What do the bus numbers tell you?
Should it be come better?

actual news from http://www.newstalk106.ie/news.asp?id=14249

[02/08/2005 12:16

The Junior Transport Minister's defending a decision to allow Dublin Bus to make a tender for new private routes. 15 per cent of new bus routes in the capital could soon be privatised - under plans currently being negotiated by unions and the Department of Transport. Government investment for 150 new buses would be conditional on a deal that some of new routes will go to private operators. But speaking earlier on City Edition, here on Newstalk106 Ivor Calelly said Dublin Bus has an equal chance of getting the contract.]

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Joerg
- 02 Aug 2005, 5:33 pm
Jörg Gieger wrote: > Should it be come better? > > actual news from http://www.newstalk106.ie/news.asp?id=14249 > > [02/08/2005 12:16 > > The Junior Transport Minister's defending a decision to allow Dublin > Bus to make a tender for new private routes. 15 per cent of new bus > routes in the capital could soon be privatised - under plans > currently being negotiated by unions and the Department of Transport. > Government investment for 150 new buses would be conditional on a > deal that some of new routes will go to private operators. But > speaking earlier on City Edition, here on Newstalk106 Ivor Calelly > said Dublin Bus has an equal chance of getting the contract.] > > Regards > > Joerg

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