My aggressive driving style and volumes of traffic on the M50 were really affecting my happiness unnecessarily. I am really supportive now of public transport improvements for all areas and feel this should be a key priority ahead of any other road projects in Dublin city and give people no other option than to leave the car at home or at the perimeter of the city/park & rideI live in Dublin 15 and work in Trinity College.
After getting off I would have another 8km cycle to my home. The combination of vigorous physical exercise and waiting in the cold would often make me fall ill, despite trying to have the correct equipment. During the day I could take the train or bus directly into the city centre . A house price in Portarlington is less than €200,000 for a three-bed semi-detached and is probably €25,000 cheaper than an equivalent home in Monasterevin, which despite being closer to Dublin and Heuston has a longer average train journey than trains from Portarlington.
This makes no sense. To my knowledge there are no new apartments being built next to other train stations. Clongriffin and Portmarnock are prime examples of stations that deserve additional services. I’m gobsmacked that Irish Rail took this decision. I live one minute from a train station but now drive to work. Only in Ireland. After 14 years of living in and enjoying London, and reading the Irish Sunday papers available locally, I learned in 1999 of the streets being paved with gold back home.
Unfortunately we cannot afford a second car at the moment so I am at the mercy of the Bus Éireann 133. I honestly feel like I’m wasting my life commuting on it. The first bus to Bray in the mornings is 9.15am. If I’m lucky that will arrive 10-15 minutes late every day. If I’m unlucky, I’ll be waiting until the 10.10am. If I miss the 6pm bus, I’m stuck until the one at 7.42pm. Again, that’s if I’m lucky enough for the bus to turn up on time instead of late or not turn up at all.
Public transport is an option, but will take even longer than the worst case car scenario as it involves a Dart to Grand Canal, then a frustratingly slow train via the city centre, loop around the north of the city, through Heuston and on to Park West. Door-to-door the public transport option takes one hour 25 minutes. I have made the decision to move to Cork in the medium term to get away from this rat race hell.
Cycling along the quays can be a really terrifying experience. The cycle lanes are in bone-shakingly bad condition, strewn with potholes and slippery manhole covers. There are eejits of every stripe on the road, cyclists included, but we are so exposed and people are in such a rush to gain a half a second here or a couple of feet there, that it’s scary to think of what might happen. I imagine someone calling my wife, the kids having to come see me in hospital or worse.
Bit dramatic!
Yep it's awful, especially when public transport is so unreliable. Spending our lives travelling to and from work and resting in between. Realistically we're just machines, they don't care about your journey.
I don't suppose the irishtimes see any connection between this story and the disproportionate coverage you give to the handful of people living around the canals who might lose a few metres of their driveways, or see a few trees replanted, to facilitate BusConnects ?
public transport in dublin is very poor
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