BUSRAGE Discussions » Light Rail

1. Al
   Member

   Yes, it's an actual service, with three buses each way...timetable here...
   
   Anyone use this service? Seems to me to be a quite unusual setup, designed to specifically sell the Luas. Takes an hour and ten minutes to run between Sandyford and Wicklow, going via localities such as Newtownmountkennedy and Newcastle.
   
   Of course, it is noteworthy that when the Luas Green Line was still part of the general railway network, you could ride a train on it all the way to Wicklow instead. But I suppose that's what happens with pee-pee-pees...
   

   Posted 2 years ago #

2. Richard
   Member

   I think there is a good case for a Luas-link from Sandyford to Bray, which I suppose your Wickla bus does up to a point. Incidentally, I am appalled by the lack of shelter at Sandyford Luas. It is a very busy pickup and drop down point both for Aircoach and for people being met or dropped by drivers, yet this all has to be done in the freezing cold and howling gales. Why hasn't anybody put up a Kiosk or shelter?

   Posted 2 years ago #

3. AlekSmart
   Member

   Because that sort of thing is only important to people who actually use the thing....and it`s not on the Degree course for Public Transport Infrastructure Engineers........

   Posted 2 years ago #

4. Al
   Member

   That'll be another black mark against the RPA, who themselves are just another layer of bureaucracy in the country's public transport fiasco organisation.
   
   There was no real reason to not allow IE to build the Luas lines, and it really made no sense not to build the Green Line as DART and re-connect it to Shanganagh Junction (wow, it'd be serving Bray now, if that were the case) and build an underground tunnel to connect it with the Broadstone Line (what, DARTs to Maynooth? but they have to wait for the Interconnector before they try that, right?)
   
   The Luas wasn't even done on the cheap, on top of all that. It does not cost less to build light-rail versus building heavy-rail, in terms of capital expenditure. But now they get to build skimpy stations and call it progress (they were in a hurry to get rid of trams during the 30s, though, weren't they).
   

   Posted 2 years ago #

5. Anonymous
   Member

   The bus stop at Sandyford is not RPA property and therefore no responsibility to them. This onus is on Bus Eireann to provide shelter. The idea of the minimalist shelters is that you should not be waiting long enough for it to matter. There are plenty of busy bus stops in this city with no shelter.
   [posted by: a2000]

   Posted 2 years ago #

6. Al
   Member

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   There are plenty of busy bus stops in this city with no shelter

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   Oh yes, especially at City Centre termini. Not even the loading area of the Busaras is well-sheltered.

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   onus is on Bus Eireann to provide shelter

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   Doubt they'd erect a shelter for a mere three buses in each direction.
   
   Is the Green Line timetable accurate? Shows the time taken from Sandyford to Faiche Stiabhna (not Stiofan, he) as 22 minutes. Add the Wicklow bus to that (sans waiting for each mode) and you've got an hour and 32 minutes tops. That typical? IE Arrow service claims to have a journey time of 1 hour 5 minutes between Connolly & Wicklow, by comparison...
   

   Posted 2 years ago #

7. Anonymous
   Member

   There is a new shelter outside the civic offices on wood quay. Its nice. The glass is on the road side to prevent people falling under buses.. And it has a nice long seat too. Only problem is that the seat is facing the civic offices nad the shelter is enclosed at the end and so you cant see the bus coming.
   [posted by: a2000]

   Posted 2 years ago #

8. RBinge
   Member

   Eek!
   
   A CIE company providing a connection from Sandyford Luas. Of course, DB/BAC have also carefully provided five buses a week one way only from Shankill..
   
   No sour grapes then? ;-)
   
   One thing seems certain to me, if CIE had built Luas then there would have been proper connecting services from Sandyford.

   Posted 2 years ago #

9. Robert
   Member

   I think I agree with RBinge about connections. That service is currently very poor. I could do that to visit relatives in Blessington as the route goes quite nearby, and they could pick me up off the bus. I could then be dropped @ the stop, get the bus, and then walk from SG to Suffolk St, down by Central Bank and make my BE bus home @ the stop there on the quays.

   Posted 2 years ago #

10. Anonymous
    Member

    when is the luas going to cabra
    [posted by: qvc]

    Posted 2 years ago #

11. Anonymous
    Member

    ok qvc shop in stupid land
    [posted by: RT]

    Posted 9 months ago #

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