what buses and when will buses serve castlecurragh?
[posted by: mylos kelly]
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castlecurragh
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Posted 4 years ago #
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where is that
[posted by: a2000]Posted 4 years ago # -
IIRC, Castlecurragh Estate is in Mulhuddart. Bad place to live seemingly, what with reputed flooding problems and industrial estates nearby (Damastown, Tyrrellstown) with trucks that are not so safe...
Question is, does anyone want a bus running into Castlecurragh Estate? The logical bus route on DB would be the 38, but of course the whole privatisation thingy may end up excluding DB anyway, depending on the vagaries of government...Posted 4 years ago # -
Castlecurragh Estate is very near the Blanch Centre: http://www.shannonhomes.ie/castlecurragh/images/locationmap.jpg
The 236 seems to go along Blanchardstown Road but you might have to take it in the 'wrong'/long direction (via Ballycoolin/Snugborough Rd) to get to Blanch Centre to connect with the routes into town.
Mylos: Don't forget, the people who run this site have nothing to do with Dublin Bus.
[posted by: Damien]Posted 4 years ago # -
Al, I'll have you know that Castlecurragh is not that bad of a place to live....granted the Vale are getting some hassle from Drumheath but that's about it....most brand new housing estates get this sort of hassle of the beginnning.
As for the industrial estates, why don't you get your facts right...Tyrellstown is a housing estate not an industrial estate.
Damastown in down past Ladyswell. There is 3 tonne limit on trucks on the Castlecurragh Road and I've seen plenty trucks pulled up by cops trying their luck.
If you are gonna slag a place off then get your facts right first.Posted 4 years ago # -
It's not me slagging the place but the press over in Ireland. I got that from news web sites (gonna force you to look them up via a web search now). And if the traffic situation is a mirror of what goes on anywhere near the N3 corridor, it's got to be a hellish place to live, despite opinions about it that may be to the contrary.
All places in Dublin to live are a mess thanks to all the cars on the road, even where I used to live (saw my old house in Leixlip with the front garden paved over to fit two cars, not a pretty sight) plus the (illegal?) house-price gouging that nobody seems to want to speak up about. And how about that traffic? Worse than places like NYC.
BTW, this is a bus forum, or didn't you know that. What's your opinion on increasing the services on route 38 to better serve the Castlecurragh area? or do you think that IE will follow through on its "Blanchardstown/Mulhuddart cut-off" proposal for a bypass onto the old MGWR line to/from Navan instead of using the original route via Clonsilla? (If so, wishful thinking on your part unless a far more forward-thinking government starts inhabiting Leinster House.) Slán leat agus go raibh maith agat...Posted 4 years ago # -
Could you tell me more about this ?
IE will follow through on its "Blanchardstown/Mulhuddart cut-off" proposal for a bypass onto the old MGWR line to/from Navan instead of using the original route via Clonsilla?Posted 4 years ago # -
Irish Rail had a plan a few years back to build a rail line off the current Maynooth/Sligo line that would serve Blanchardstown Centre and Mulhuddart, presumably passing close to the Castlecurragh area. However, with the current anti-rail mind-set, it is highly unlikely that a new railway line would come into existence, not even in the median of the M3 once that gets built out to Navan.
BTW, satisified that I myself was not slagging Castlecurragh? I don't have anything against the place; never been there, actually. The only way at present to get more service on the route 38 bus and said service going into Castlecurragh is to pelt Dublin Bus, as well as Seamus Brennan's office while he lasts in the Transport Minister position, with lots of letters to that effect. (If Harney becomes Transport Minister, expect her to prefer sending AMC in there, for two buses a day...)Posted 4 years ago # -
(Al,) slagging off an area you have never been to does not resolve nor improve public transport issues. Besides castlecurragh is a beautiful well maintained privite estate.Back to why im here,There are four dublin bus stops on the main castlecurragh road,which have been there i think before last christmas.Has anyone any update on this?Posted 4 years ago #
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(Al,) slagging off an area you have never been to does not resolve nor improve public transport issues
Again, that is something I did not do. Please, everyone, brush up on your reading comprehension.
As for resolution and improvement to the public transport issues at hand, you have to lobby and lobby hard. Otherwise you will get more service reductions and one or two AMC trips to fill in a few missing gaps.Posted 4 years ago # -
Hi Alig,
I contacted DUblin bus last week regarding the bus stops in Castlecurragh. They say that by next month (mid to late October) the 38A will be going through Castlecurragh and the 38 will remain going through Mulhuddart village. The 38A will have an express into town during rush hour which will reduce the length of time to get into the city.....I suppose it more a wait and see.....Posted 4 years ago # -
If you read the 13 thread Al has been slagging off this area and its people as well. Know all, Know nothing.........
[posted by: a2000]Posted 4 years ago # -
If you read the 13 thread Al has been slagging off this area and its people as well
WADR, you are a lying sack of s**te as well as not being able to read. Simply saying that DB ought not serve an area where its buses get stoned is not a general indictment of the people indigenous to that area, but it is an indictment of tolerance of mischief.
You are also responsible for spreading disinformation on here. Nobody believes that load of BS that other people come into Ballymun to stone the buses—and don't tell me that it's that way in Finglas either, because I have family living there and the 134 had to be cancelled many times due to broken windows. People have known for decades to not mess with Ballymun if you don't live there or don't know anyone who lives there—same goes for Bonnybrook, most of Finglas, Sheriff Street and the old Docklands, Tallaght...need I go on?
Take your infantile s**te-stirring somewhere else. And put down that stone before the guards get you.Posted 4 years ago # -
Hi Barry,
Are you asking about the route of Eirebus or the fact that not many people actually use it. I have never seen more than 5-6 people on that bus at any one time.
Its quite handy though getting from the shopping centre with shopping and also to go for a few quiet ones in blanch village.
[posted by: Maxo]Posted 4 years ago # -
maxo,
Thanks for the feedback,Ive recently noticed the 38A taking route through castlecurragh
cheersPosted 4 years ago # -
Can anyone confirm that the 38A goes through Castlecurragh. It took me exactly two hours and three buses later before I made it to work this morning.
[posted by: Lana]Posted 4 years ago #
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