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Commute city center to crescent.

  • 22-07-2013 8:11pm
    #1
    curry_person
    Registered Users Posts: 212 ✭✭


    I want to move into City center but i dont drive, so really what im asking what is the commute like from city center to crescent? are buses reliable in morning? how often do they come? how early would you have to be to ensure you make it in time! :confused:


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  • #2
    closifer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 478 ✭✭closifer


    curry_person wrote: »
    I want to move into City center but i dont drive, so really what im asking what is the commute like from city center to crescent? are buses reliable in morning? how often do they come? how early would you have to be to ensure you make it in time! :confused:

    I think buses come every 15 minutes (from brown thomas) and take about 15 minutes to get there so you would want to allow a half hour


  • #3
    banie01
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    Buses every 15 minutes and walkable in 30.


  • #4
    cyberspi
    Registered Users Posts: 383 ✭✭cyberspi


    If you could, its so much handier to cycle out... its over 5 yrs since I had to do it so busses may be more reliable now but the hassle I used to have was waiting for the bus back in... often times i'd be 40+min waiting to get a bus that had space


  • #5
    letsdothis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 230 ✭✭letsdothis


    Agreed, it's a 5-10 min cycle. Most reliable form of public transport!


  • #6
    xii
    Registered Users Posts: 250 ✭✭xii


    letsdothis wrote: »
    Agreed, it's a 5-10 min cycle. Most reliable form of public transport!

    That would be private transport.:rolleyes:


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  • #7
    highlydebased
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    closifer wrote: »
    I think buses come every 15 minutes (from brown thomas) and take about 15 minutes to get there so you would want to allow a half hour

    They don't go from BT's anymore, they now leave from Debanhams. 301 or 304 will get you to Crescent


  • #8
    letsdothis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 230 ✭✭letsdothis


    xii wrote: »
    That would be private transport.:rolleyes:

    A public bike rental scheme is on its way to Limerick, then either public or private cycling will soon be possible, so let's not get too pedantic :-)


  • #9
    redron74
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭redron74


    curry_person wrote: »
    I want to move into City center but i dont drive, so really what im asking what is the commute like from city center to crescent? are buses reliable in morning? how often do they come? how early would you have to be to ensure you make it in time! :confused:

    It really depends what time you are travelling at. If it coincides with start/finish times at St Paul's school, then it can be crazy in those 20-30 minute windows. I've seen traffic backed up all the way back to the city side of the flyover on very wet mornings.
    The bus lane inbound from Southcourt to Crescent SC does help the buses, but it ends on the flyover and the bus has to deal with all the rest of the traffic from there into the city centre.
    Outside of peak traffic times, the buses are reliable enough, but there is still the overcrowding issue at school finishing times.


  • #10
    Buckeye
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 134 ✭✭Buckeye


    curry_person wrote: »
    I want to move into City center but i dont drive, so really what im asking what is the commute like from city center to crescent? are buses reliable in morning? how often do they come? how early would you have to be to ensure you make it in time! :confused:

    Buses have always been reliable in the mornings, and they are better than they used to be in the afternoons/evenings.

    City centre to Crescent Shopping Centre is a very short commute, though. I live in the city centre without a car & commuted to Raheen for two years (now I work in the city centre), and apart from an extra-long wait once a week or so, it was easy.

    And life is so much easier in the city centre, and so much less expensive without a car, that it more than makes up for an occasional wait for the bus.


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