Sometimes, it doesn’t even pay to get out of bed in the morning.
Even when it’s well after 9am, there are no pesky school runs in the way and you get to enjoy a nice bus journey through the leaf-lined suburbs of South Dublin.
To explain: Minister for Transport Shane Ross took the bus into work today, and tweeted about it. The responses were as cold as ice.
Bus is warm . Leap card great .Flew thro Stepaside , Sandyford ,Dundrum and Milltown. One less car on road! Mind you 44 was almost empty
— Shane Ross (@Ross_Shane1) January 3, 2017
A lot of people concentrated on the fact that the tweet was sent after 10am, when the roads are usually clear.
Everyone is in work already……
— Bríd Murphy (@BridMurphy) January 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/ShaneDoyle19/status/816225172378226688
the schools aren't back yet. Do the exact same route next Monday.
— TeacherAidan (@MrAidan1) January 3, 2017
This is the first thing we thought of too…
https://twitter.com/Bdoherty84/status/816239970457358336
try get it at 7.30 when people are going to work. Nice that you can pat yourself on the back for an utterly awful system
— Bam (@thequiggers) January 3, 2017
How can something as cold as this cause such a bad burn?
https://twitter.com/AlvaghCronin/status/816225225222266884
These people know the real Dublin on a weekday morning.
I'd suggest you try take the 16 bus on a weekday morning in rush hour trafffic and tweet about that journey 🙄
— Elisa Duncan Cullen (@ElisaD_C) January 3, 2017
https://twitter.com/gdbailey1973/status/816250894790623232
Still, nothing is spoiling the minister’s fun…
Travelling to work today on a wonderful 44bus! pic.twitter.com/4M2prQzkW6
— Shane Ross (@Ross_Shane1) January 3, 2017
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