bus from town to rds.....

yoyoyo

hey, im a bit of a gob****e and havent sorted out how im gonna get to my exam 2mro-does ne1 know what bus from town to get or even what dort station to get off at so i can walk?any help would be v appreciated....

Kevin_rc_ie

get the dart and get off at sandymount. it's 7 min walk follow the croud

Andrew 83

It's actually only about a 20 minute walk from town. If you walk up Nassau Street then along Clare Street and keep walking straight past Merrion Square etc you'll cross the Canal then if you keep walking straight you get there.

Sorry I can't be mroe help, I can't remember what number bus!

Kevin_rc_ie

get the dart. walking to an exam centre doesnt bode well. too many potential wrong turns.

yoyoyo

jaysus that was quick-the sandymount option sounds good to me- thanks a thousand

Kevin_rc_ie

we will only accept a million of your thanks. inflation.

cuckoo

the 5, and all the 7s go from the quays, via nassau street, out past the rds.

trinity hall-ies could get the 18 from rathmines, but it's not the most frequent of buses, they'd prob be faster walking.

Victor

5 (rare), any number 7 except 7D, 45, 63, 84.

Alternatively 18 or 27X.

DART to Sandymount.

Stargal

The 7 bus is the handiest - you can get it on O'Connell St., outside Front Arch or at the Nassau St. entrance and it's only a short journey

If you've ever been to funderland, it's in the same place.

http://www.dublinbus.ie -> look for Merrion Road





Find your own way there, if you go to http://www.dto.ie and wander into the Journey Planner section...

Kevin_rc_ie

let's have a poll.

dart is the best.

bus
dart
walk

Kevin_rc_ie

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

let's have a poll.

dart is the best.

bus
dart
walk

CYCLE!

dregin

7 and 45 is your best bet. The 10 and 11 go quite close to it aswell. Lansdowne road is closer than Sandymount I reckon.

Kevin_rc_ie

no way! don't cycle. Everyone falls off their bike on the way to their exam and breaks they're writst. DART

ApeXaviour

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

let's have a poll.

Done

Bus is best, handiest. Catch the 7 right outside front gate (well outside provosts house) with everyone else.. Get off with the other students when you see the rds (it's blatantly obvious)

Victor

Andrew 83 wrote:

It's actually only about a 20 minute walk from town.

Depending on where in the RDS, this says 48 minutes.

http://www.dto-journeyplanner.ie/dtojp/jsp/content/route.do

cuckoo

Dart is good in the morning as you know exactly when the next train will be along, and esp good if you're travelling out from town against the rush hour. Sandymount would be my dart station of choice.

I've always had a back up plan as well, just in case my primary transport option fails.

There's usually those AA yellow signs up on lamposts indicating where it is, they've been mentioning it on their traffic reports for the past couple of weeks due to the UCD exams having been out there.

Stargal

It's Simmonscourt - if you do get the bus, it stops once at the exhibition door of the RDS, and then further down at Bewleys, right beside the Simmonscourt entrance.

Andrew 83

Victor wrote:

Depending on where in the RDS, this says 48 minutes.

http://www.dto-journeyplanner.ie/dtojp/jsp/content/route.do

I must be a quick walker

Andrew 83

Andrew 83 wrote:

I must be a quick walker

Or a someone who is often late for exams?

Nietzschean

dregin wrote:

7 and 45 is your best bet. The 10 and 11 go quite close to it aswell. Lansdowne road is closer than Sandymount I reckon.

for the simmonscourt where our exams would be on the sandymount station is alot alot closer(being in a direct path to the entrance..)

Kevin_rc_ie

ah i knew my trusty sidekick Darth Bobo would back me up on this. Probably living beside pearse has affected his judgement somewhat.

Nietzschean

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

ah i knew my trusty sidekick Darth Bobo would back me up on this. Probably living beside pearse has affected his judgement somewhat.

lol its a sad day when i'm agree'n with kev



And also the fastest way out there is as myth said , a bike..

Kevin_rc_ie

not only can myth tell the difference between C2h5OH + 4H20 and C2H5OH and 5H2O he can out ride a train!

Kevin_rc_ie

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

not only can myth tell the difference between C2h5OH + 4H20 and C2H5OH and 5H2O he can out ride a train!

You've to walk down to pearse station, then wait, then get on the train, then walk from the station to funderland. 20 mins I'd time that as.

It's a 10/15 minute cycle from Trinity...not that it matters, I'm centralised this year for exams.

Nietzschean

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

not only can myth tell the difference between C2h5OH + 4H20 and C2H5OH and 5H2O he can out ride a train!

lol with the ammount of stops the train makes, time waiting in station, and then time walking from station to the exam centre wouldn't be hard...

Vainglory

However you get there, look forward to the magpies flying around inside..provides a welcome distraction from whatever exam you happen to be failing at the time :rolleyes:

So glad I'm in UCD and my exams are all finiiiiiiiiiiished

Kevin_rc_ie

bitch

Vainglory

Loving it

Mr.Nice Guy

I would advise getting the bus and if you're running late, as I was for my last exam, get yourself a taxi to the place.

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

is it Simmonscourt as opposed to RDS? Is there a difference between the two?

Nietzschean

Roundtower2 wrote:

is it Simmonscourt as opposed to RDS? Is there a difference between the two?

its part of the RDS, but its not where you might think it is.... If your on the road there that goes outside the rds facing away from town you take a right at bewlies and then its on your left(should be lotsa students heading in there)

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

thanks! p.s. if you're out there this afternoon and mention the password 'boards.ie' to me (i'm invigilating) i might give you extra exam books!

Nietzschean

lol, you means ones to take home for the entire family ?
na i'm all on campus this year....

John

Darth Bobo wrote:

i'm all on campus this year....

Me too. Although the RDS is between my house and TCD so it's in theory easier to get to. In theory because there is no direct bus to it so I'd have to walk about 15 minutes to get there from the bus.

Nietzschean

John2 wrote:

Me too. Although the RDS is between my house and TCD so it's in theory easier to get to. In theory because there is no direct bus to it so I'd have to walk about 15 minutes to get there from the bus.

Well there's that and would u not be in college beforehand for some last minute cramming anyway?

John

Darth Bobo wrote:

Well there's that and would u not be in college beforehand for some last minute cramming anyway?

No, I find it really hard to study in college. It's not that much easier at home but it's a little better.

Time Magazine

Roundtower2 wrote:

thanks! p.s. if you're out there this afternoon and mention the password 'boards.ie' to me (i'm invigilating) i might give you extra exam books!

Ooh who are you? I slagged an invigilator who knocked my bottle of water over today.

I'm in desk 42 if anyone wantsa say hi.

sleepingbeauty

Depending on where in the RDS, this says 48 minutes

it definitely does not take that long :eek: whoever said (edit: Andrew 83) 20mins is quite right. im qualified to answer this because i can nearly see the rds from my flat window! heck i walk that route nearly everyday. although i am also quite a quick walker, so you might want to add on 5-10mins to that.

dart would prob be best option, i mean if its a 9:30am exam you probably wouldnt want to be walking, well i know i wouldnt. also i dont really like buses, you end up waiting for like 20mins and then when it finally turns up its packed...and then youll get stuck in traffic!!

meh sure all options are grand really, whatever floats your boat

Nietzschean

sleepingbeauty wrote:

dart would prob be best option

...

meh sure all options are grand really

I'm not sure why but that sounds like a contradiction to me...

sleepingbeauty

oh it is i know
i just meant theyre all ok options really but the dart might be the best.......im very indecisive at times :rolleyes:

Hitchhiker's Guide to...

i must have knocked over about 20 of those bottles today (afternoon) - that gown is terrible! you'd be walking down the aisle and then you'd hear all these clunking noises behind you; you look behind and see that you've created a trail of terrible destruction - bottles of water; pens; calculators; you name it, its now on the ground...

...p.s. remember not to have your mobile phone on you - we have to do spot checks and if you have your phone its a 20euro fine - i know there was an email sent out about it; but between this morning and afternoon in the RDS they confiscated 32 phones...

Nietzschean

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

he can out ride a train!

In an effort to avoid study i went off there n proved it...
From me (18 westland row) to the traffic lights at the corner of bewley's is
6mins 47 seconds and 57 hundreds, that includes 1min + spent at lights and also is faster than getting a taxi as i passed by a few(and this was light traffic)..

Kevin_rc_ie

^^^ lol.

Nietzschean

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

^^^ lol.

yes, its true i will do more or less anything to avoid study

Vainglory

Roundtower2 wrote:

i must have knocked over about 20 of those bottles today (afternoon) - that gown is terrible!

....Gown?

Kevin_rc_ie

lol you don't have those in ucd?

you know those yokes the oldskool teachers used to wear? well the invigilators walk around in them. why? i dunno

Mr.Nice Guy

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

lol you don't have those in ucd?

you know those yokes the oldskool teachers used to wear? well the invigilators walk around in them. why? i dunno

What?! The inviligators wear gowns?! The only time I've seen gowns in UCD was at the start of the year for the opening ceremony thingy. Trinity's inviligators wear gowns? I'm astonished at that!

Kevin_rc_ie

why?

Mr.Nice Guy

Kevin_rc_ie wrote:

why?

People walking around in gowns? When I was at the RDS the inviligators were smartly dressed and didn't look like Darth Vader.

wayfarer

Ah but theyre brilliant! Theyre really great flamboyant ball gowns circa 1880 with a huge bustle pad and all!! (roundtower just wasnt used to his hence the knocking over of bottles)