Outbreak of nostalgia as the 99-year-old service ends on Saturday
Novelist Denyse Woods reckons she spent “at least a third” of her six years in Dublin waiting for the 46A.
Ms Woods said the initial posting of her story on her social media accounts last November drew a huge outpouring of nostalgia. “I never imagined it would get so much attention” she said. The late frontman Liam Reilly wrote: “When my hummin’ was smothered by a 46A and the scream of a low flying jet / So I jumped on a bus to Dún Laoghaire, stoppin’ off to pick up my guitar / And a drunk on the bus told me how to get rich / I was glad we weren’t goin’ too far.”In 1982, broadcaster Mike Murphy created a segment on his television show The Live Mike called : Rarely Seen, Hard To Catch, The 46A.
Nostalgia has also featured strongly among the 10,000-member My Dún Laoghaire Memories page on Facebook, which is the work of bus enthusiast David O’Connor and Dublin bus driver Tony Murray. The route will be served by the new E-spine as part of Phase 6a of the National Transport Authority’s Bus Connects redesign of the network.
Criticism tends to relate to the low frequency of the E2 buses in the early hours of the morning, about one per hour between 1am and 5am. This will improve when the coastal route B spine is introduced in the middle of next year.
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