Dún Laoghaire / Rathdown County. July. 2018.

by **keeper** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 9:58 pm

Thin end of the wedge Rocker, travel pass is too hot a political potato for Dublin Bus and Bus Eireann and Government to mess with,but private companies are not obliged to accept the pass, so to my mind it's a nice "out" for the above mentioned wimps.

by **Micheál** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 10:23 pm

Aircoach accepts them, for when you go on your holliers to spend your pension abroad.

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by **keeper** » Tue Feb 03, 2015 10:34 pm

Thanks Micheál, that's good to know, now how about Ryanair

by **Micheál** » Thu Nov 26, 2015 5:11 pm

Update on Bus routes . . .

http://www.herald.ie/news/commuters-triumph-as-dublin-bus-rolls-back-on-route-changes-34231578.html

by **grammer** » Thu Nov 26, 2015 10:32 pm

Yeh

The old 7A is coming back and the 111 every hour
However the ladies in Dalkey will be less pleased :mrgreen:

by **Helium** » Fri Nov 27, 2015 1:02 am

Rocker wrote:I love it Grammer...been on that bus...but, doesn't it beat the buses of the 60's..when we had no bathrooms and very few clothes...Gawd the overpowering smell of pongy clothes, B.O. smelly boys,URyan,chips and vinegar not to mention ciggies...and there was always the odd bods who sat beside you and in a big whiskey breath put the world to rights while squeezing you up against the window....hicking and coughing!!!!

Wow Rocker we both must have met the same old geezer on the buses many years ago, did you get the No. 8 bus too? :roll:

by **Rocker** » Fri Nov 27, 2015 10:48 am

Ha

Helium,
When I read back that posting I did I have to laugh :lol:

I can smell it now.
My only big bus adventure was to take the bus from the main street in Blackrock to the stop opposite Dominican Convent in Dún Laoghaire and back again in the evening, the 7A or 8. Did that from about 1964 to 1969 when my next big adventure was taking the bus into the Pillar that was something else. I took the train for the next 40 odd years.

by **Helium** » Fri Nov 27, 2015 11:19 am

Rocker wrote:Ha Helium,
When I read back that posting I did I have to laugh I can smell it now.
My only big bus adventure was to take the bus from the main street in Blackrock to the stop opposite Dominican Convent in Dún Laoghaire and back again in the evening, the 7A or 8. Did that from about 1964 to 1969 when my next big adventure was taking the bus into the Pillar that was something else. I took the train for the next 40 odd years.

You must be only a youngster Rocker, I got married in 1969 and emigrated across the Liffey to Raheny. No dart then just the normal train to Sandycove(now called Glasthule/Sandycove). So that old geezer was going a long time!! :lol:

by **keeper** » Fri Nov 27, 2015 3:29 pm

Ah the beloved 7a :shock:

Upstairs on a wet Monday morning, heating on full blast, fogged up windows, cigarette smoke, smell of drink from Sunday night binge, smell of unmentionable mixture of Curry, Fish n Chips and Batterburger gases quietly being released into an already airless atmosphere, the coughing and sneezing and spluttering, and the smell of wet coats and feet, sure didn't we love it :roll:

ah yes, Monday morning was special, :roll:

by **Strum** » Fri Nov 27, 2015 4:03 pm

keeper wrote:Ah the beloved 7a Upstairs on a wet Monday morning, heating on full blast, fogged up windows, cigarette smoke, smell of drink from Sunday night binge, smell of unmentionable mixture of Curry, Fish n Chips and Batterburger gases quietly being released into an already airless atmosphere, the coughing and sneezing and spluttering, and the smell of wet coats and feet, sure didn't we love it ah yes, Monday morning was special,

So what's new? :lol: