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Maynooth Train Parking- None!

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    ixus wrote: »
    I went to the open consultation on the Traffic Management Plan back in June or whenever. They were working off only two solutions to traffic chaos as I could see it. Outer Ring Road and the old plan to run a road down canal and by fire station out and around to Parson St. A very old plan to open up the green space there.

    I gave them a detailed alternate plan with drawings on how to make the whole area of the town actually work better and open up spaces. It's difficult to actually visualize by text but I'll try.

    Open a new road through the harbour, beside the apartments. Then build a one way system that goes from the Roost to BOI, turn right one way system to Glenroyal, option to continue on Straffan road or turn right onto Harbour Road, right again onto Leinster St.

    One way system coming from Parsons lodge into the town. Pedestrianise Old college entrance. College uses roundabout at Kilcock Road to enter South Campus.

    With this, you remove a heap of junction time at the Roost and BOI junction. Pedestrian crossing could also regulate traffic flow. Reduces from 3 lanes to 2 on part of Main St and down to Glenroyal. Allows wide bike lanes that can also link down Leinster St and onto Greenway Cycle thats coming.

    There are flaws, like people wanting to turn up Parsons St having to go to Straffan entrance but that is purpose built. The flow should be better so time shouldn't be a huge facto. Obviously, if Outer Ring Road built, that helps big time.

    I went through every back street and rat run thats used and why. Explained that if 7/8 cars are coming out of south campus, thats the junction goosed there. If you're going to Dunboyne from Newtown/Rathcoffey Rd, you should go around by Laragh and through North campus at peak times or you would be 40+ minutes.

    Lots more detail, hence, eager to see what they propose.

    That looks interesting. Any chance of a diagram to help visualise it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭ixus


    Don't have access to laptop now. Will try and post at some stage today.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭ixus


    Got a minute. Goole Earth & MS Paint job. They'd have to pay me to use proper software and do their job.

    Overall Layout: http://imgur.com/rHtNokP

    Main Street: http://imgur.com/a/X6cHC

    Straffan Road: http://imgur.com/a/D5z5o

    Leinster Street: http://imgur.com/a/wnuFV

    Parson Street: http://imgur.com/a/MErC0

    I know this means cutting into the Harbour Field but, I think it could be utilized better if this part, with a walkway was opened up and the Tidy Towns were given some funds to upgrade it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12,807 ✭✭✭✭Orion


    There was already a plan to cut into harbour field to put in a cycle/pedestrian roadway there which the emergency services could also use to get out to Straffan Road. But the ICA are refusing to move their hut.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,113 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    A 70 year old tin hut doesn't have much life left in it. Few more years and I suspect they'll regret not accepting offers. It was apparently in poor nick when bought from Macra in the 60s even.

    Roof is visibly buckling in the 7 year old Google Streetview images!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭ixus


    CPO or condemn that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 851 ✭✭✭TonyStark


    Orion wrote: »
    There was already a plan to cut into harbour field to put in a cycle/pedestrian roadway there which the emergency services could also use to get out to Straffan Road. But the ICA are refusing to move their hut.


    Registered only in 2009. I wonder whether it was a squatters rights job. Seems to be in an opportune location to demand a large payment.

    399623.PNG

    Surely there are laws with buildings like that in terms of fire safety they can be compelled to repair it at least.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 Lasting31


    Hello just recently moved to Maynooth and trying to figure out the best train to get to work in sir John Roberson quay. Can I ask are there any seats on the 8.10 Maynooth-Connolly express train which comes from Longford ? I am 5 months pregnant so keen to get a seat when possible as I tend to faint!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,113 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Lasting31 wrote: »
    Hello just recently moved to Maynooth and trying to figure out the best train to get to work in sir John Roberson quay. Can I ask are there any seats on the 8.10 Maynooth-Connolly express train which comes from Longford ? I am 5 months pregnant so keen to get a seat when possible as I tend to faint!

    Very rarely. You may have a better chance of getting the few there are with the bump, but that depends on people being reasonable which isn't a given! There are usually seats on it on Fridays, though. Train actually comes from Sligo so there are people who've been in some of the seats for over 2 hours at that stage.


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 18,986 Mod ✭✭✭✭Moonbeam


    I haven't commuted in 5 years but I always found a seat on the 8:10 and found people in Maynooth brilliant for giving up their seats to those who need them. I used to commute from Balbriggan before that and it was awful in comparison.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 275 ✭✭Rathkenny


    Lasting31 wrote: »
    Hello just recently moved to Maynooth and trying to figure out the best train to get to work in sir John Roberson quay. Can I ask are there any seats on the 8.10 Maynooth-Connolly express train which comes from Longford ? I am 5 months pregnant so keen to get a seat when possible as I tend to faint!

    I get that train a couple of times a month (Monday - Wednesday) and I have only been left standing once. If it's busy for you, there is plenty of standing room so move down the train and make it obvious that you're pregnant. Hopefully somebody will have the good decency to give you their seat but if not, and you feel unwell or uncomfortable, then ask. There is nothing worse than being forced to stand when pregnant or sick. Best of luck with the rest of your pregnancy.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6 Lasting31


    Thank you Moonbeam and Rathkenny.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,900 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    If a seat is a priority and you drive maybe you could consider going over to Hazelhatch instead

    plenty of seats on services to Connolly


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,113 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Riskymove wrote: »
    If a seat is a priority and you drive maybe you could consider going over to Hazelhatch instead

    plenty of seats on services to Connolly

    Driving through Celbridge at that time of the morning can take 40 minutes!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,900 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    L1011 wrote: »
    Driving through Celbridge at that time of the morning can take 40 minutes!

    Really?
    The Bus only takes 10 minutes from Salesian College to the bridge?


    There is also more than one route
    You can go via Leixlip/Barnhall and Elm Hall


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,113 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Riskymove wrote: »
    Really?
    The Bus only takes 10 minutes from Salesian College to the bridge?


    There is also more than one route
    You can go via Leixlip/Barnhall and Elm Hall

    At that time of the morning I've had the bus take that long. Timetabled time (or other parts of the day run time) isn't indicative.

    The bridge is one problem, Frank O'Rourkes traffic lights are another.

    The longer route is getting towards insanity - and will still require either driving through Maynooth itself or bad backroads around. 8:18 has seats, 7:55 has seats; both much simpler.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭n97 mini


    L1011 wrote: »
    The bridge is one problem, Frank O'Rourkes traffic lights are another.
    .
    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,900 ✭✭✭✭Riskymove


    L1011 wrote: »
    . 8:18 has seats, 7:55 has seats; both much simpler.

    Well obviously that changes things.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 983 ✭✭✭Hercule


    yeah the 8:18 is often still virtually empty while it sits waiting at 8:25 for the predictably late 8:09 from Sligo - 8:18 will not get you into town for 9am tho


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,234 ✭✭✭Patser


    Down here on Maynooth train now and seeing a thing about the parking that's driven me nuts on previous mornings. At this hour the car park is still 3/4 empty but people are already parking parallel to the canal in front of empty spaces.

    Now I know it's a necessary evil for people to park there since spaces are at such a premium, but there have been mornings where I've seen 5 or 6 empty marked out spaces left empty because it's simply impossible to drive into them because of cars parked along the canal making the angle to drive in too tight. I've had mornings of having to leave these spaces behind and head to Louisa Bridge because of it.

    So when I see people parking up large jeeps at up near the narrow entry point while there are spaces galore, knowing that in an hours time they'll have effectively blocked off several spaces, but it allows them to get out quickly, it annoys me. But I can't think of a solution. To stop parking along the canal side removes more spaces than it allows.

    Maybe changing the parking bays to angled herring bone style would allow cars in and out more easily but that would require driving through the car park on u turning to face the right way for the angle....


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,435 ✭✭✭ixus


    That's all about people looking for a quick exit on return plus some have no confidence in tight spaces.

    There has been talk for a while about opening the other side of the bridge. Not sure it will ever happen but, if it does, you could have a one way system with angled parking.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,113 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    There's some movement on the new spaces at Platform 2 finally. Will be awkward deciding which side to try first for one, though!


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