Normally you don't need to turn the power off so in this case services could have been maintained Bray Killester using the new crossovers put in as part of the DASH project at Clontarf
Northside no reason why services could not have been maintained to Killbarrack
Its unreasonable to expect a fleet of buses on standby to go on the off chance given the rush hour there is no practical way such a fleet could be deployed in time regardless to the trouble spot. The one useful fact is we know Dublin Bus will honour rail tickets when things go wrong on Luas its not so clear. If the issue is long running (remember the Barrow Street crane) or several hours warning a fleet of buses can be obtained and staffed, this has been done in the past
The real issue with IE is the inability to make a quick decision on what to do.
Say we have a bridge strike in Grand Canal Dock, as we do every other week a DART is then stuck in Pearse and Lansdowne for 30-40 miniutes and a long queue forming behind, the logical approach would be to quickly (less than 10 minutes) make the decision to terminate services and to send trains back as this keeps services moving, ok its not so good if you have to get off but it minimises the disruption as soon as services are restored. The current approach stacks trains up so that when things get moving there is a huge gap
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