Intriguing Bus Upgrades for West Dublin
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E RE F E 500 litres H Heating Oil T valid until 14/01/19 €355 LOCAL dublin WEST EDITION 01-6249710 Januray 11th 2019 045-431281 Phone: 087 252 4064 • Email: [email protected] • www.localnews.ie tel: 01-6249710 or 045-431281 Or click mcloil.com Delivering to: Ballyfermot Lucann Leixlip eCelbriwdge Clondaslkin Palmerstown Kilcock Maynooth l l l l l l l Intriguing bus upgrades NO MORE TV BILLS EVER for West Dublin SPECIAL OFFER SPECIAL TO ful€ly 2ins5ta0ll ed IRISH COMPANY LOCAL NEWS EXCELLENT AFTERCARE SERVICE By Paul Kelly • Is Dublin Bus boss Ray Tel: 083 3133133 Coyne fighting for tradi - tional routes? • Sinn Féin’s “37 local changes” to BusConnects • National Transport Author - ity may not have last word AN INTRIGUING upgrade of the traditional 26 and 66 west- to-east bus route family may be part of a wider plan to slow the momentum of controversial BusConnects, Local News has learned. Interestingly, the upgrades are coming from Ray Coyne, the Dublin Bus boss who, famously, started his working life studying every Dublin bus, route, road and district. His route enhance - ments will make it a lot easier for commuters in Palmerstown and Lucan to travel into the city. Christina and Tommy pictured at their wedding reception just after Christmas. The event was celebrated at the Lucan Spa Wood For Stoves They will also improve access to Hotel, which also has a Wedding Showcase Sunday 13th and 27th January west Dublin locations such as (nominally Ray Coyne’s www.wood-for-stoves.ie Maynooth and Liffey Valley. did not mean abandoning the CUSTOMERS bosses), and Transport Minis - The Leading Supplier For a summary of the new 26 old routes. ter Shane Ross (already caustic of premier Dried Hardwood Logs and 66 family of routes, see As our source put it: “[BusConnects plans] don’t mean we should not put on ad - about BusConnects) — no one and RUF Wood Briquettes. panel. “Ultimately, the views of cus - has more intimate knowledge Meanwhile, Dublin Bus tomers and the views of trans - ditional services on the net - Kindling - Fire Logs - Fire Lighters work as it is today.” of the buses of Dublin than Mr sources, speaking on condition port experts will decide [the Coyne. Ray Coyne is an intriguing Stove Coal - Polish Coal of anonymity, gave equal future of BusConnects].” And the less-than-ringing player in the scramble for con - weight and status to local Bus - And significantly, the source endorsement given to BusCon - NATIONWIDE DELIVERY trol of Dublin’s transport sys - Connects “refuseniks” as to US insisted that the plans for the nects by our Dublin Bus Retail & Wholesale consultant Jarrett Walker, who new grid-style BusConnect tem. sources represents the first sig - Of all the main players — SUITABLE FOR WOOD BURNING STOVES devised the plans that would do routes — with controversial in - nal, however tentative, that Mr - MULTI FUEL STOVES - OPEN FIRES away with the 26 and 66 as we terchanges, requiring hop-on- Walker himself, Hugh Creegan know them. hop-off journeys into town — and Anne Graham of the NTA continued on page 2 Telephone: 087 785 8605 or 01 801 3799 DARREN SANKEY CDT Clinical Dental Technician - Graduate of Trinity College Dublin 1 Old Bawn Terrace, Tallaght Mobile: 086 4023666 , Landline: 01 5375803 27 years experience - No consultation fee All work guaranteed - We Strive For Perfection Medical card accepted with Dentist on site - Fully insured... Accredited by Irish Dental Council Open - 9am - 5pm 5 days a week 2 | THE LOCAL NEWS from page 1 Most of these changes will be implemented Coyne intends to as and from Sunday, January 20: fight for his network. Route 26: And sure enough, his signed announce - • Will start further west, at Liffey Valley (in - ment, about the 26 stead of Palmerstown Cemetery). and 66 family of routes, emphasises • 16 extra departures per week local service, single- • earlier weekend start times. ride town access, and Route 66: added frequencies. Meanwhile Cllr • 18 extra departures per week Danny O’Brien has re - • earlier weekday and Sunday start times. ported gaining an un - Route 66a: usual level of access to WAY OUT WEST: the two main Lucan Road routes, the 26 and the several 66s, will extend slightly in distance and increase substantially in frequency • one extra trip from Merrion Square to NTA Deputy Chief Ex - But that strategy Walker’s plans. ecutive Hugh Cree - may be made a lot Currently the NTA is Leixlip gan. And he says that, more difficult if local mired in controversy • two extra trips from Leixlip (Captain’s Hill) if granted the local opposition is vocal over the Green Line, to Merrion Square concessions that Sinn and widespread. which locals fear will Féin have asked for, be shut down for • earlier first bus, in both directions, on week - he would be less in - years to make way for days and Sundays. clined to oppose the CHAMPION the building of the BusConnects plans, Route 66b Dublin Bus and its northbound Metro. citywide: • new Sunday service, with 20 departures in champion, Ray So this may well be “It’s up to all the Coyne, has chosen an the perfect time for total between Leixlip (Castletown) and Mer - local areas, and their Ray Coyne to stand up representatives, to interesting time to rion Square play his hand. He was for his buses, their fight their own cor - • earlier first bus, in both directions, on week - drivers and above all ner,” he told Local notably silent, smiling their customers. days. News . and looking down at It is therefore possi - his notes, during Jar - Route 66x rett Walker’s presenta - ble that, by modifying POLITICAL SUPPORT • various minor changes to improve punctu - new routes in some tion of BusConnects ality and reliability. suburbs — such as to politicians in the With the NTA as RHA Gallery last year. “boss” of Dublin Bus, Route 66e (new): Lucan and Clon - BUS BOSS RAY COYNE: playing his hand dalkin — where lob - Unlike Hugh Cree - any move by Mr • running from Sunday, January 20 byists are most gan and other officials Coyne will require knowledges this: deliver an efficient, and public reaction to • weekday service, with 7 departures from effective, the NTA at that highly-charged courage and political “As Dublin Bus Chief safe and reliable bus BusConnects is any - may be able to push a meeting, Coyne never backing. An interest - Executive, I will con - service for the people thing to go by, political Maynooth to Merrion Square version of BusCon - once spoke up to elu - ing sentence in the tinue to work with you of Dublin.” [Emphasis support for Mr Coyne • serves Glen Easton, Leixlip Village, Lucan, nects through for the cidate — much less route-change PR and your colleagues in added.] will not be in short Liffey Valley and Dublin City. entire city. defend — Jarrett handout subtly ac - Dáil Éireann to help However, if political supply. 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