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No Threat....No Service

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2 Dec 4th, 2003 

10 Ciao members have rated this review on average: somewhat helpful

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Student Discounts

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Late .  .  . Late .  .  .  . Late

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Roobear

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In Northern Ireland,If you don't have your own transport then you must turn to the public transport provided by Translink transport company. Translink owns Ulsterbus, Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) and Citybus. So, as a person who uses public transport regularly....using all of these avenues I have a lot of experience to be able to make a comment!

Because of this monopoly of the transport service Translink can be as late, as rude and deliver the worst service possible and we cannot do anything. The Buses don't run regularly enough and they tend to be very expensive for what you recieve. Their cramped conditions don't promise a comfortable journey and too often I have found that the air conditioning system is broken and I spend an hour in front of a hairdryer.

I have travelled on the continent and I often wonder what tourists think of our shambles of a transport system. I am sure that many of them have a chuckle at the fact that we accept it so!  

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leddy 19.04.2005 20:27

Yep : your bang on. Even the notorious "ah jaysus, sure it'll be grand" smoke pouring out the back Bus Eireann are better! Actually in Fairness to Bus Eireann their fleet is pretty modern - pity the same cant be said about the Ulsterbus service - the only thing they seem to care about is their goldliner service, which is only any good if you are coming from, or going to belfast

magicloudz 06.12.2003 20:25

Sounds like a bad idea to use their service:) -Jon

robert_parnham 05.12.2003 19:02

Last time i was in Belfast i couldn't help noticing the amount of new buses? I guess this hasn't improved them much. NI Railways are just a joke

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