Wenn etwas häufiger nicht funktioniert, sollte es meiner Meinung nach nicht beworben werden.
Dies sind meine Erfahrungen, nachdem ich im Laufe meines Lebens über 100 Schnellstraßenfahrten unternommen habe:
- Toilette – fast immer zugenagelt und "Außer Betrieb"
- W-lan – Obwohl der AP normalerweise eingeschaltet ist, gibt es oft keine Internetverbindung, sobald Sie eine Verbindung hergestellt haben
- Leistung – Steckdosen funktionieren sehr selten. Einige neuere Busse verfügen stattdessen über 1-Ampere-USB-Anschlüsse, über die Ihr Telefon in etwa 5 Stunden aufgeladen wird
- Klimaanlage – Im Sommer ist es an Bord meist etwas zu warm, obwohl ich denke, dass dies im Ermessen des Fahrers liegt
- Liegesitze – Das ist das Einzige, was ich mir gewünscht hätte, nicht da zu sein, denn es führt dazu, dass die Sitze noch enger werden
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Von Tikolu43
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I’m pretty sure they’re not even expressway anymore. Galway-Cork had the 51 and 51x before covid which skipped all the small stops
Best thing would be to message TFI. I totally get the frustration though. I’m on a bus right now with plugs and tried plugging my laptop charger in and nothing.
You just described them all as present, albeit very inaccessible
> which will charge your phone in about 5 hours
So it’ll be charged when you arrive! Perfect!
The reclining seats on those buses are infuriating.
They’re a joke in general but I have to say, I was on one of those new 261 expressway busses two days ago. The USB-C charging ports are so fast. Was glad of that fact because my phone was on about 8% when I got on at Busaras
You could try reporting them to the ASAI (the self-regulator) or CCPC, although I’m not sure you’d have much luck.
I don’t think the NTA would do much for you, the expressway routes are commercial routes run without state funding.
That actually means your phone is powering the bus
Plugs finished being installed JUST as we completely move on to USB-C to USB-C lmao 😂 At least they tried
Hardly false advertising.
Lots of coach companies have toilets permanently out of order. Really annoying. Specially after a few tipples
It’s accurate
Worst Commute
You’re funneled in
Universal Service bus
Spider webs
At least one seat
Kind of reminds me of the dart and those little screens they used to have that showed you what stop you were at and what was coming up, a handy little feature that I think I’ve only ever seen working once in 28 years. Like surely its not a hard thing to fix but it’s just professional incompetence and lazyness
The routes I take regularly are thankfully serviced by citylink. The difference between them and bus eireann is night and day.
Toilet is always clean and usable on city link. Staff are much more helpful, have arrived early than my booking several times and was able to board an earlier service no bother.
Have had to deal with too much BSwith Bus Eireann staff and arsehole drivers through the years I’d never bother with them if I could avoid it.
I worked in a bus company for 3 years overseeing maintenance. Mechanics are one of the hardest jobs to hire for right now, most of our workforce were from Eastern Europe with very little training but quite skilled. If you managed to get anyone half way decent with a multimeter, they were stuck into the bus diagnostics.
You can complain all you want but they’ve got the monopoly and they would consider all this stuff an added bonus.
I’m just happy the odd time it does work compared to buses in London which don’t have USB nor internet.
Is it express, at least?
I’m a bus driver at Bus Eireann.
And I was thinking about the same last week when I was driving one of the expressway bus, that none of the toilets are working on any of the buses I had a privilege to drive it, plugs sockets are rarely working , same with WiFi. Like the state of those buses it is dirty not working l, barely functioning. I don’t understand how a service like this can function on this day and age. There is a rumour that they are trying to slowly stop all the expressway services and being replaced with PSO goverment backed services.
You should believe everything written on the side of big red busses, now come on.
Power – Perfect for your quick spin to Letterkenny on the 32
If they just wrote „sometimes“ at the end it would be fine
It’s weaponised incompetence, they see competing with private companies as too much work so they just don’t bother and let them fall apart so the can eventually claim there’s no profit and cancel the routes so they can be replaced with PSP routes so they can just make straight profit from the NTA/TFI
Expressway to/from Waterford/Cork/Galway has competition with JJ Kavanagh, Dublin Coach and CityLink etc
While these busses have better service now, I guarantee once BÉ become a limited service PSO company only then the private companies will ramp up prices and customer service go to shit
fr, why tf do airlines and bus have crazy reclining seats in places with already 0 leg room, should be illegal
The Waterford bus never has a toilet.
WC: WelCome
Ice-cream cone: This I can’t fight
USB: At least one person on the bus has a USB cable, come on now
Snowflake: Ye, it’s cold in the bus sometimes
Seat: Ye, they do that
I know it’s a USB symbol but it looks like a glass of Champagne to me.
Usually classic hits 4fm blaring all the way too
Whatever about these features, it’s the smell on Bus Eireann buses that gets me.
I used to get an expressway bus from Ballina to Galway back before CityLink did that route and I used to have to have a shower after being on that shtanky bus
Recently got the 32 bus up to Monaghan. It was a 261 one reg and it was amazing. The chargers were perfect and the air-conditioning was blasting. Almost too cold. However it seemed they hadn’t updated their wifi certificate as the website kept 404ing. That was probably the best expressway experience I’ve had in a long time.
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Hi! I am not affiliated with bus eireann in any way, but I am a coach driver with a fair bit of experience on tours and long distance on the continent. I can maybe add a little insight from the couple operators I’ve worked with:
Toilets: Some companies have depot staff to clean the buses, including cleaning emptying toilets, others leave it to the driver. Some companies pay the driver’s „other work“ properly, others count driving hours only plus what they ‚think‘ is a reasonable amount of other work time, when they should be paying what’s recorded on the tachograph. Some drivers simply get fed up of spending an hour cleaning a coach only to have to argue it with managers later who insist it ’should only take 15 minutes‘. As a result, you’ll find drivers locking toilets, especially on shorter runs. And tbh, like all people, some drivers are just lazy pricks and don’t want to do the work, and when combined with an operator that doesn’t want to pay the work, this can be the result. Of course there’s also plenty of very good drivers who would have it open, if it wasn’t semi-permanently out of order due to being ‚low priority‘ repairs.
WiFi: tech moves fast and bus systems aren’t updated as frequently as your home setup might be. It’s often just outdated and slow routers not keeping up with tech demands. Plus signal issues and you’re competing for bandwidth with the other passengers.
Power: Sockets die from wear and tear and are low priority repairs, if they are even ever inspected at all. Worth reporting, if not reported they won’t get fixed because higher priority mechanical issues always take precedence and time in the garage is revenue lost. Buses cost money whether they’re moving or not so it’s priority to keep them out on the road as many hours of the day as possible. It’s always worth checking with the driver if that model has a separate switch to power the outlets, he/she might just have not thought about it and be able to flick them on for you.
Air conditioning: the big one in my experience as it’s a safety hazard. I don’t want to be boiling babies down the back. We can’t feel the temperature back there from the front, if it’s a manual control (or dodgy climate control), please do come up and ask the driver to turn the temp down, it’s no bother at all and 9/10 times we haven’t registered that it’s getting hot back there. Humans are powerful radiators so manual A/C needs adjusting frequently based on how full the bus is. Do come up and ask.
Seat pitch/recline: the interior build is entirely up to the operator so you’d need to take it up with them, but there’s market forces at play with that one imo. I don’t think Irish economics can support Latin American or Asian style distance coaches which have far more passenger comfort and room. Here and in much of EU it’s all volume/budget, with higher operating costs, if we had 30-40 seats instead of 50-60 the ticket price would be too high for most people. Imo.
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What did the company say when you brought it up with them?
the name expressway i feel is also false advertising, never had one show up on time for me once