B@stard traffic

Mimikyu

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The_B_Man

man ur missin out on the LUAS. its a bit slow but when the traffic is like that, the LUAS is like one of them eurostar trains that go a million miles an hour.

BrianD3

I was in the centre today and counted myself lucky that it only took me 1/2 hour to get a parking space. I'd say there were some frayed tempers around there today. People really start acting like feckin assholes to each other when it's that busy.

BrianD3

Mimikyu

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The_B_Man

they should have a LUAS line that goes up the entire M50 and back. u could then go from the square to blanchardstown to liffey valley and back again. doubt it would be hard.

Mimikyu

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JackKelly

Luas = God

that is all

coolhandluke

It never ceases to amaze me that the only thing people can think of doing on their day's off nowaday's is to go to a shopping center,cash has really become king.No wonder were turning into a nation of fat b@stards !.

dudara

I spent a week in Dublin there over the New Year and my god, but the Luas is impressive. it's almost like being back in Germany!! Clean, efficient and fast. Why did it take them so long to put it in place

therecklessone

Went to Blanch yesterday after work at 1pm, gave up trying to find a parking space after 15 minutes in the car park beside Roches (I know, I'm an impatient git).

Just back in from it today from another trip over, not as bad as yesterday but still plenty of movement.

There's too much money in this economy, and I'm hibernating for the year the SSIAs start to mature!

Oh, on a related note...why are people so fukcin dumb when it comes to driving around the car parks in shopping centres. No regard for one-way systems ("yes love, it does[/i] say NO ENTRY"), and even less regard for restrictions on turning out of said car parks. IT SAYS LEFT TURN ONLY FOR A BAST*RD REASON YOU DOZY COW! :mad:

egan007

Cycled in this morn -
New Year Resolution is to use the car less

Was great - really enjoyed it.

BolBill

dudara wrote:

I spent a week in Dublin there over the New Year and my god, but the Luas is impressive. it's almost like being back in Germany!! Clean, efficient and fast. Why did it take them so long to put it in place

It took that long because one of Berties mates was in charge of buliding it and they made a sh*t load of dosh delaying it. Same as everything in this country, look at the Port Tunnel.......

Mimikyu

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d22ontour

luas would be great if it actually went near any suburbs with built up traffic

Tusky

Its ****ing rediculous. Ive been getting the 39 bus for years and its getting worse every year. It serves FAR too many areas, There needs to be about 10 different bus's with different routes that serve the greater blanchardstown area. Going all along Navan road , through the blanchardstown village AND the blanchardstown centre just to get to Clonsilla is mental :S

RicardoSmith

dudara wrote:

I spent a week in Dublin there over the New Year and my god, but the Luas is impressive. it's almost like being back in Germany!! Clean, efficient and fast. Why did it take them so long to put it in place

I'm amazed you managed to get space on one. And that it wasn't in an accident is an even bigger mystery.

positron

Blach shopping centre traffic, and blanch-city centre are the worst in Dublin IMHO. Still no sign of LUAS, makes me wonder if we this is a communist country?

There's no doubt any sort of public transport, if it saves time (dart, metro, luas, spaceship1, whatever), it will full of people, as there are hundreds of thousands of new houses built/being build in that area! Can they not see there is a profit to be made?

bl**dy backward, IMO!

John R

positron wrote:

Blach shopping centre traffic, and blanch-city centre are the worst in Dublin IMHO. Still no sign of LUAS, makes me wonder if we this is a communist country?

There's no doubt any sort of public transport, if it saves time (dart, metro, luas, spaceship1, whatever), it will full of people, as there are hundreds of thousands of new houses built/being build in that area! Can they not see there is a profit to be made?

bl**dy backward, IMO!

One of the very few benefits of the eastern-bloc communist countries was a very good public transport system.

There is no light rail planned for the Blanchardstown area. There is already a rail line close by.

The reason why traffic and public transport is lousy (and probably always will be) in that area is the awful planning and design of the whole area. Several square miles of unbroken housing developments with few facilities and a small number of access roads with one massive shopping area to one side is a recipe for constant traffic jams. It is also a nightmare for providing decent public transport.

Civilian_Target

Funny all this talk of traffic jams.
When I went out the door this morning - I honestly thought that my alarm clock had been taking the piss out of me because instead of the usual gridlock outside my door there was free-flowing traffic - and not that much of it.

I actually took my phone out and rechecked the time to make sure it was actually 8:30. And then I got on my bike and cycled to work...

Cactus Col

The LUAS is great, it'd be better if there were actually more than two routes (or if one of them went by me).

Buy a bike

ando

Civilian_Target wrote:

When I went out the door this morning - I honestly thought that my alarm clock had been taking the piss out of me because instead of the usual gridlock outside my door there was free-flowing traffic - and not that much of it.

ye i've noticed that aswell. I think many people are still on their holidays. Be prepared for next monday or tuesday !

RicardoSmith

When does freeflow end?

pickarooney

John R wrote:

One of the very few benefits of the eastern-bloc communist countries was a very good public transport system.

Not to mention a marked absence of shopping centres.