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Dublin Commuter 07 wrote:

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It will just enable P/Boro to get more newer buses this year which is probbably the reasoning behind it, they would no way be giving these buses up otherwise,, I really feel for P/Boro to be honest, what with them having the oldest fleet and having had hardly any buses for the last two years (sarcasm).

In my opinion the new vehicles should go to the garages with the oldest vehicles, none of this shuffling about with one garage giving another one 2 year old buses to replace their 10 year old buses for no other reason than they can get the new EV's/WR's, but obviously C/Road and Donnybrook are in no position to turn this down. But something I don't understand? If these vehicles are spare why has it took them so long to be transfered if it's not to ensure they get th new vehicles that are coming in?

Saying that, it looks like they have given too many buses up, or someone cannot allocate properly, as last night there were 97 RV's on the 38/38C/236, and this was WAY outside peak hours, in addition the last few weeks VT's on the blanch route seem to have diminished in numbers quite a bit to what they were when they were first delivered, curiously this started happening when orders for more buses were revealed.

They are spare due to the delay in introducing new services in the Blanchardstown area.

When this will be resolved is the subject of conjecture, as it requires some commercially realistic thoughts from DoT, something sadly lacking at the moment. It was expected that the services would commence in June 2008, but that hasn't happened yet. Hence the buses are now being used productively elsewhere.

They will either return to Phibsboro or be replaced by some of the new tranche of deliveries when the services are in a position to commence.