Public transport colour.
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Im not sure if this has been covered before, looking over pictures of Dublin it struck me how un-coordinated and unorganised our public transport looks, regarding colour.
I wonder is there any plans to choose a standard colour for taxi’s and buses? and if not then why?
The multitude of poorly coloured buses does not look good, it gives me the impression of some regional British city, Same for taxis. Should we not pick a colour and stick with it?Taxi drivers object strongly to this: they want to be able to hide the fact that there car is a taxi. Its a pity, I think the streets look alot neater if all the taxis are the same colour. The Dublin Bus buses are all the same colour, 747 and wedding bus excepted.
I thought there was those orange/white buses and the yellow green ones?
The green ones were fairly tacky looking only thing missing was a pot of gold sticker on the back
Dublin Bus are yellow and two colours of blue now: quite handsome I think and much more uniform than it was in the past.
Do you not think the bright yellow is too glaring even cheap looking?
The dark and light blues would look nice on their own , but the GAA mafia would probably need some sort of cut of the action
Heres the bus before the Dub touch up
[ATTACH]6865[/ATTACH]I don’t mind the yelow: because of NYc it is a transport colour and blue and blue would be too dark I think.
If not directly affecting the overall colour scheme, when the new DTA comes on stream (stop laughing) hopefully every single public transport vehicle, even taxis perhaps, will have that logo emblazoned on it. That should give a bit of coherence at least…
In Glasgow the old Corpie buses were green, white and orange (I kid you not); now we’ve no municipal buses and competition has resulted in FirstBus grabbing the lot more or less and painting them an insipid white, The PTE stock is a kind of burnt-orange, but it’s painted more often than IE’s trains which weather to the most bilious orange-yellow you can get. DART green’s OK, but maybe needs a rethink?
It’d be nice if the buses were more instantly recognisable, all that yellow doesn’t look good, too messy on a big double decker
maybe blue/blue with a yellow roof? The world famous Dublin yellow-top buses:D To rival the red buses of london and yellow cabs of NY
Sticking with the blue (for Dublin) theme maybe blue and white for the taxis
Sorry my mind was wandering down at the dog park this evening*shudder*
By modern standards it’s grotty, but I think most agree it was a highly coherent scheme. The same with DART – it’s surprising actually how much harmony was achieved across the two modes given the general absence of image consultants at the time or emphasis placed on branding.
The Airlink is quite fresh, if a bit 1990’s building society in outlook. You’d probably end up rather queasy with that smeared across the entire fleet as mentioned.
The yellow and dark blue is still a very elegant scheme – the choice of blue in particular really hits the spot – and the contrast very effective, but I’d tend to agree that the brash yellow is getting distinctly irritating, especially when you get rippling walls of it along the main streets of the city. It’s also impossible to ignore in photographs! The amount of times you get a nasty sliver of yellow entering along the bottom of your shot 😮
Incidentally, I only realised recently that if the top third of the new DARTs was painted brown, you’d have an exact reproduction of a Loop the Loop ice lolly.
Nothing wrong with oirish green, I remember some English dude on the radio in the eighties comenting on how he knew he was in Dublin coz even the buses and cigarettes (when everyone had 10 Major in their tit pocka!) were green. Same colour as the post box would do grand
Re taxi colours, didn’t Seamus Brennan or Noel Dempsey recommend a few years back that taxis be the same colour as the county colours. I thought it was a great idea although I imagine the taxi drivers shot that one down pretty quickly.
What a hideous notion
Blue and Navy would look quite smart, for Dublin Bus.
Not so sure about other counties using their county colours though.Purple and Yellow buses anyone?
ah now let’s not kick off a war. GAA is a provincial pursuit imported into our fine cosmopolitan capital city by upwardly mobile country cousints from the 1950s onwards. If you want a true blue (excuse the pun) Dublin sports colours one need look no further than the red and black of the Bohemian Football Club, estbld in our fair city in 1890.
Actually scrap that, I was being partisan and sentimental for the minute-each bus should be half celtic/half Man united colours with the BAC logo redesigned to look like a WKD label decorated with spliff motifs-closer to the zeitgeist…
Anybody remember the old old CIE carriages – black with a hint of orange. That’s the way you want to go – make public transport as evil looking as possible. Nothing attracts youthful commuters like the whiff of fire and brimstone.
Joking aside, I kinda liked it….
and weren’t they designed by the great Patrick Scott, the minimalist painter, then an architect?
@massamann wrote:
Anybody remember the old old CIE carriages – black with a hint of orange. That’s the way you want to go – make public transport as evil looking as possible. Nothing attracts youthful commuters like the whiff of fire and brimstone.
Joking aside, I kinda liked it….
LOL 😀 Orange… Jesus, yes… was the colour chosen in case trains got lost in a field somewhere and needed to be easy to find?
@tommyt wrote:
ah now let’s not kick off a war. GAA is a provincial pursuit imported into our fine cosmopolitan capital city by upwardly mobile country cousints from the 1950s onwards. If you want a true blue (excuse the pun) Dublin sports colours one need look no further than the red and black of the Bohemian Football Club, estbld in our fair city in 1890
well if it’s League of Ireland we’re using as a guide surely it should all be “in the red”.
Now that I think of it that joke may belong in darker days given the voracious gobbling up of the ol’ grounds by the Carroll’s of this land eh?! Spiritual home of Irish football me hole;)
I’ve been considering this thread as I wend my merry through the streets and I think the current yellow and blue ones are quite good tbh. But there is a definite need for a uniform branding when the DTA assumes dictatorial power over everything that moves in the Dublin region from DARTs to skateboards. Also the state of the fcking bus stops in this city are a disgrace! As was discussed elsewhere the number of different types, different designs, info-less poles, incomplete timetables, different shelters etc is utterly ludicrous.
this is colour south korean style???:cool:
I’m not saying I like it but it would make the trip home more enjoyable!
some stupid art project I guess???
rainbows work sometimes…
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