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LUAS Green line - ghost stops

JupiterKid · 2012-05-15 01:27:02

I had some time to kill this afternoon so I decided to take the LUAS all the way out to Brides Glen. I'd never travelled on the extended section beyond Sandyford. I noticed that on the Green line extension there are 2 "ghost" stops - one near Carrickmines and another near Laughanstown. I presume they were put there with…

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#32 26-05-2012 11:15am
dogsouljah

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Wild Bill wrote: »

What really pees me off about the "ghost stops" is the bizarre practice of the trams almost stopping at them but not opening the doors.

This adds at least a couple of apparently pointless minutes to the journey from Cherrywood to Sandyford.

I'm sure there is a reason for this and I'd like to know what it is before I dismiss the Luas operators as complete idiots :cool:

The main reason for this is due to the proximity of the stop platforms to the tram (since passengers need to step off without a gap). The driver cannot run through the stop areas at speed as the stop area was not designed to accommodate any speed over, say 20 kph (also, operationally speaking, it was probably decided that allowing a driver to speed through a stop area was bad practice, ghost stop or not).

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