This Is Not Your Bus

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This morning

Oscar Shandra-Penhaligon writes:

Ah the San Francisco-style gentrification of Dublin is complete – private tech buses [ buses  used to ferry only tech company employees from work to home] appear for Microsoft…

FIGHT!

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51 thoughts on “This Is Not Your Bus

      1. Daisy Chainsaw

        That’s nothing. Over 30 years ago, we were bussed privately to the strawberry fields of rural Wexford to pick for a pound a bucket.

          1. Janet, I ate my Avatar

            oh reminds me of that movie you recommended
            Wilderpeople..loved it btw
            haiku

  1. Cloud

    This is absolutely nothing new. I used to get off at Sydney Parade every morning ~12 years ago and there was a PWC (I think; one of those anyway) bus that would collect workers to bring them up to a campus somewhere.

  2. Andyourpointiswhatexactly?

    I wear Penhaligon’s perfume.
    That is all I have to say on this matter.

  3. The Old Boy

    Ah, the class and exclusive luxury of a twenty-year-old ex-Dublin Bus painted black.

    I’ll bet it still smells of fag-ends and diesel.

    1. Dhaughton99

      All the wide boys of Microsoft acting up at the back of the bus spitting on the necks of the nerds.

    1. Annon

      Yes, private buses are allowed use the bus lane.

      Private buses aren’t anything new.

    1. Rugbyfan

      he still uses a nokia, using one of those apple things from san Francisco would be against all he believes in.

  4. Matthew

    Unlike San Francisco, they aren’t being used to replace Public Transport, but rather to supplement it – in SF the public transport infrastructure is practically non-existent, so you get coaches running from the residential parts of the city down into the bay area to drop employees off at their Silicon Valley campuses. It’s a essentially a door-to-door service.

    In Dublin, we have a mediocre public transport network, but it’s way better than the Bay Area’s, so these buses are mostly used to transfer employees from public transport nodes (like a DART station or Luas stop) to the offices. They’re generally not anywhere near the city centre, and they aren’t causing any problems.

    It’s also worth noting that the reason San Francisco residents seem to hate the buses so much isn’t because of their existence, but because they signal a significant gentrification of their areas (and I suppose you’ll find that most of the protestors are themselves people who gentrified those areas at some point in the past, because that’s America for you). The buses by themselves are a perfectly good idea as they keep employees from having to purchase cars and drive them to work.

      1. Termagant

        Sure as long as you’re on the coast you’re grand

        Personally I’ve never been further west than Smithfield and I’m perfectly happy

    1. Christophe

      I think the ire is more because they are bussing them to far out areas like Cupertino when they should be trying to encourage their workforce to live near their campuses instead of an already over crowded and over priced city. These tech workers contribute very little to the city during the week as they work long hours in the valley.

      1. Matthew

        Even then, it’s still a massive fallicy to attack the *workers*, because they aren’t the ones preventing new builds in the valley. I’d imagine most of them would love to live near their campuses, I’d imagine their companies would enjoy that too because they’d work longer hours, but the valley is just a sea of single-family homes that don’t even reach the grand density levels of Dublin’s 2 floor semi-d sprawl.

  5. Sheik Yahbouti

    I’m all in favour of segregating the effers. All the more fun when we storm their bastions – and destroy them!

  6. Reidman

    We don’t have enough public transportation and infrastructure is gridlocked at peak times – this seems an eminently sensible option but no, cue the predictable outrage – move along nothing to see here

  7. Starina

    these buses are absolutely freezing in the wintertime. grim city. even an overpacked Luas is nicer.

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