Recent communication to Dublin Bus on behalf of local Bus Users

Dear Mr Keating,

Thank you for agreeing to send a Dublin Bus representative to our forthcoming Dublin City Council local area meeting. Finian McGrath TD asked me to request Dublin Bus attendance at our next council meeting to discuss proposed route and bus service changes in our area.

In my capacity as a public representative, I made it very clear to you at the previous (20/09/10) DCC local area meeting (which you attended also at my instigation) that bus users were not at all happy with the proposals and route changes being put forward by Dublin Bus on the routes serviced by the 20B & 27B. Prior to this area meeting I sent you a submission/questions which clearly outlined the problems envisaged by residents in the Whitehorn, Beauvale, Ardmore, Elm Mount, Castletimon, Kilmore, Montrose, Ardlea, Hazelwood and Maryfield areas as well their surrounds including Beaumont and Beaumont Hospital. Finian McGrath TD has also been making representations to Paddy Doherty, Dublin Bus.

While we understand that the 'world changes' and Dublin Bus too, must often change, we cannot accept the drastic changes that are being put forward by Dublin Bus for our area (e.g having the 27b turn left out of Beaumont Hospital and travel along Skelly's Lane 'away' from town before it resumes its original route on Ardlea Road does not make sense.) It is our strongly held belief that these plans will result in a disproportionate disruption of bus services in our locality and severely disrupt the quality of life enjoyed by many residents/bus users in the aforementioned areas.

For our forthcoming meeting I would insist that the concerns of bus users, which I clearly expressed to you in September are taken into account by Dublin Bus and that either a totally revised route plan/bus service is presented at this meeting which will actually improve the bus service or that the plans are scrapped altogether.

Thank you very much.

Yours Sincerely

Damian O'Farrell
Independent Councillor DCC

working with
Finian McGrath TD