>>893895Tram Network:
Pros:
-Pretty frequent, and the trams are quite long.
Cons:
-Not very many extensions of the network have happened, most have been to areas that don't have that many people anyway, having an interchange with the two lines only happen in 2017, 13 years after the lines were first built.
-Poor coveage of the network across Dublin, leaving many places particularily in in North Dublin having to rely on the shitty bus system.
-The lines they run on are fairly full, and some of the areas they serve have the numbers to justify commuter or metro services. The Green line in particular is pretty bad, this was built on an old commuter line and should at least be pre metro by now.
-The lines are pretty slow in the city centre, it's almost as fast as walking, and the Red Line takes a very windy route throughout Southwest Dublin, making it pretty slow.
The bus network is shit in the city.
-Most of the buses go to the exact same place in the city centre, causing an overload to the bus network in this area.
-Most of the buses are pretty slow. The bus lanes are poorly built, in some areas there's way too many bus stops, and in the suburbs they spend a long time driving through badly planned areas, trying to serve as many people as possible.
-In many cases the bus network tries to compete directly with commuter rail or the trams, and have fuck all integration with any other service.
-Even basic shit isn't done, if a bus has 2 doors they don't use the second one most of the time.
-Orbital routes are all slow too, and there aren't nearly enough of them. Feeder bus services are non-existant.
The city is trying to bring in BRT but they're going to share the same routes as the normal network, and in one case it's going along a line which is planned to have a metro a couple of years later.
