I see that the new bus system will include changing from numbering to letters A to F, inclusive.
While Billy Strayhorn wrote Take the A Train for jazz pianist Duke Ellington in 1939 (lyrics by Joya Sherrill, 1944), it may be a while before “Take the A Bus” comes into popular use in Dublin. Somehow a revised Bagatelle song Summer in Dublin won’t sound quite the same with “I jumped on the A to Dún Laoghaire”, rather than the iconic 46a.
Patrick Judge,
Dún Laoghaire,
Co Dublin.
Any excuse
Dublin Bus route redesign (Irish Times letters page)
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Previously: Redesigning Dublin Bus
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Funnily enough, the 46A is not mentioned in the iconic Bagatelle song.
The line goes ….
“So I jumped on the bus to Dun Laoghaire
Stopping off to pick up my guitar”.
But we all knew what he meant.
“I was singing a song I heard somewhere, called “Rock ‘n’ roll never forgets”,
When my hummin’ was smothered by a 46a and the scream of a low flying jet”
Dammit man, you’re absolutely right.
(Hangs head in rock’n’roll shame)
Hic* here nevermind pal*hic*I’ve gorra*hic gorra greash idea for gettin’ rich, pal*hic
you’re no rock n roll kid, are you?
“And a drunk on the bus told me how to get rich,
I was glad we weren’t going too far”
obviously written before the new route that circumnavigates a massive chunk of south dublin suburbia, taking about 3 hours to actually get to dun laoghaire
Well Patrick as the words are “So, I jumped on a bus to Dún Laoghaire….” it would fit perfectly fine – he never said he got the 46A to Dún Laoghaire
We’re talking about Bagatelle now?
– I must’ve missed me stop.
Bagatelle and Heaney on the same page – it must be the 32nd of Something.
This BusConnects plan is doomed if people are going to lament losing the 46a
Yeah but, FREE Wi-Fi…
ker-ching!!!!!
Your
passengerscustomers are not going to get a taxi home when they miss their stop. They’re gonna get ANOTHER bus.– And if you confuse them they’l need to get ANOTHER bus, and so on….
I miss my stopp quite a lot.
Ask the admin.
Why do people write letters like this? What do they get out of it?
It gives them a sense of enormous wellbeing
PARKLIFE!
Says the Internet commenter :D
Sounds like the failed road signs around Dublin a few years ago. Has Owen Keegan moved again?