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Quiz: Can you tell the Dublin Bus route by the start and end points?

Could you get where you’re going on an unfamiliar route?

DUBLIN BUS CARRIES thousands of people every day.

But could you get where you’re going on an unfamiliar route?

Talbot Street to Malahide
24
32

40
48
Harristown to Kimmage
67
104

83
84A
Burlington Road to Ongar
39A
37

38
39
Palmerstown Park to Ikea
111
68

140
239
Clarehall to Jobstown
13
27

41
63
Phoenix Park to Dun Laoghaire
46A
47

51
66
Walkinstown to Marino
238
130

123
140
Kilternan to D'Olier Street
118
76

8
29
Merrion Square to Lucan (Dodsboro)
25
26

32
44
Rialto to Blackrock
17
18

19
20
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Turtle-y awful!
Shell of a bad effort.
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    Mute Sam
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    Oct 16th 2016, 3:18 PM

    This is what I am doing on a Sunday afternoon, a bus route quiz.
    Living the dream

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    Mute Cormac Laffan
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    Oct 16th 2016, 6:01 PM

    @Sam: I hear ya, I’ve never even been on a Dublin bus route, still took the quiz.

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    Mute Thevigilantone
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    Oct 16th 2016, 3:12 PM

    You’d have to be a hardcore bus user to know all them…

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    Mute Ronan Sexton
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    Oct 16th 2016, 3:30 PM

    As an outsider, the bus routes are impossible to work out in Dublin. Yet in London they are fairly easy to figure out. I can’t be the only one. Or maybe I am.

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    Mute Ciara McCorley
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    Oct 16th 2016, 6:49 PM

    Nope you’re not the only one…. And using their appalling website doesn’t help either!

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    Mute Bob McShane
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    Oct 16th 2016, 5:00 PM

    The 39 goes to Burlington road? Does it really? Not on a Wednesday evening it doesn’t!

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    Mute Steve T
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    Oct 16th 2016, 7:32 PM

    5/10, not bad considering I live in Galway and have never been on a Dublin bus!!! Pure guesswork..

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    Mute Richard Doherty
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    Oct 16th 2016, 3:08 PM

    7 out of ten not bad

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    Mute Roland Kelly
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    Oct 16th 2016, 5:47 PM

    7/10, left Dublin 26 years ago .. lot of guessing.. many of those places didn’t exist in 1990. Ex. Palmerstown D20.

    Now N California– serious rain here today, first in 2 years :)

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    Mute Tweety McTweeter
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    Oct 16th 2016, 6:05 PM

    It stopped raining for the first time in two years here during the summer.

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    Mute Dave O'Hanlon
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    Oct 16th 2016, 3:05 PM

    Ah my work bus came up, plus a few in the same direction. still only got 6 though

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    Mute Dave Murray
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    Oct 16th 2016, 3:12 PM

    10 outa 10 get in there.

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    Mute Neal not Neil
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    Oct 16th 2016, 3:05 PM

    I can guess them putely based on the route number that appeared in each space while the photo was loading.

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    Mute Neal not Neil
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    Oct 16th 2016, 3:12 PM

    Oh, those are the options

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    Mute lavbeer
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    Oct 16th 2016, 9:42 PM

    When you are explaining your own witty comment to yourself. You are in trouble. Heed the signs.

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    Mute David Wall
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    Oct 16th 2016, 4:41 PM

    3 out of ten not bad live in laois

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    Mute Dave O'Hanlon
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    Oct 16th 2016, 5:13 PM

    where and what is Harristown?. Its got 2 regular bus services, must’ve something going on there

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    Mute Pauliebhoy
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    Oct 16th 2016, 5:23 PM

    Bus depot

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    Mute Helen Kenny
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    Oct 17th 2016, 1:59 AM

    42 goes to malahide not 32

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    Mute JustMade Ireland
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    Oct 17th 2016, 7:48 PM

    @Helen Kenny: isn’t the 32 that goes through Raheny and a long the coast terminates at the T-courts in Malahide

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    Mute Martin Hoey
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    Oct 16th 2016, 4:00 PM

    10/10 easy

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    Mute Fiona Fitzgerald
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    Oct 19th 2016, 7:31 PM

    Ooh, 8/10, highest score yet! But I rely a lot on buses.

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    Mute Anne Fallon
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    Oct 17th 2016, 4:00 PM

    3/10 – not bad for an outsider who hasnt been on a Dublin Bus in years!

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