Madam, – As a daily user of Dublin Bus, I was interested to read that it is planning to provide on-screen information on the location of buses for the benefit of Dublin commuters next year (Home News, October 26th).
I assume that some attempt will be made to estimate the time of the next arrival of a bus to the waiting commuters at bus stops, as part of the information to be provided.
If so, the German designers of the proposed system will need to factor in a unique feature of the operation of the bus system in our capital. This is the ubiquitous “As Seirbhís”, that appears to have survived, miraculously, the recent culling of bus routes and the thinning of service frequency on others. – Yours, etc,