Dr Keith Wilson ðŸ’Waiting for a bus and the last one that passed just said ‘Darkness Into Light’ on the front. Make of that what you will. #DublinBus
SabreToothTigress ZenD@keithwilson Some 30 yrs ago we travelled to Dublin, standing there and waiting for busses, there were timetables, but the time the busses arrived and the timetables had no connection. After the first day we asked some Dubliners and they told us the timetables where put there one week ago and nobody looked at them, because you simply waited and then your bus arrives.
@WingedSnake Sounds about right. Some buses run more or less to timetable, but other routes are essentially random, or reliable at some times of day but not at others. Even the ‘live’ bus information is misleading as it oftens show that a bus is due to appear which never materialises, and then magically disappears from the information board—a so-called ‘ghost bus’! I’ve never seen this phenomenon anywhere else outside #Dublin.
@keithwilson Not with busses, but the ghost train thing is now very often happening with trains of Deutsche Bahn, as late as the morning of the day you want to travel, the train ghost you and happy searching for another connection.