>encourage passengers to make greater use of public transport
Maybe build better public transport?
I remember there was suppose to be a luas/dart line from Clongriffin train station to Dublin airport, was completely abandoned.
*What* public transport. What is the public transport we’re supposed to use instead.
This is just another case of using the stick instead of the carrot, that Ireland always seems to go with
Do other countries do this? What’s the logic?
Typical, instead of improving puplic transport just make private less appealing. Cheap solution.
Just build a fucking train station.
I thought they did that already. There are signs everywhere warning that you can be towed and security checking there is someone in parked cars. It’s enough of a pain in the hole to find someone and get them to the car as it is.
I’ll be getting dropped off at mcdonalds so
The mental gymnastics they have to play to turn this into a “positive” thing. Free drop off and pick up moved to the long term car park which is what is 10 mins away by shuttle?
Pure greed by DAA.
Just hop on the metro sure, you’ll be in the city in…
Oh, wait..
This is rancid, being charged to bring your customers to you who you then force to pay over the odds for everything in there because they have no choice.
“As part of our sustainability drive” – that would be by reducing the 20 min car trip to a 10 min car trip plus a 40 min bus trip before we put you into a dinosaur powered tube of farts and fire you at 500mph towards Corfu for €15. Yes, I see how this will help.
This is like the meme of Enda wanting to tax sun… We paid for the damn airport, now we got to pay to use it.
It would take me almost an hour to get there from home by public transport non-taxi, it would take me 10 mins by car…
Atlanta airport has a free “ cellphone parking lot “ where you wait until the person you are picking up is outside ready and they call you and then you just drive the 2 minutes to pickup. It has removed a lot of the congestion as you don’t have to keep circling while waiting for someone. It works really well.
All policy in Ireland is to just charge us for everything. Eat into our discretionary income until we can’t afford nothing but the basics.
Serious unrest ahead in the next year.
It’s typical of Ireland’s half assed attempt at improving something really. They say ah it’ll encourage people to use public transport, except they forgot to build any.
Arseholes.
To put into context how utterly shite our public transport is:
Driving to airport from where I live – 13 minutes.
Use public transport instead: 1 hour 25 minutes
Walking – 2 hours
Remember when they wanted to extend the dart or something up there? and have it run like every 15 minutes… this is like the opposite of that… also this is just going to end up with cars dumping people out somewhere near ish to the airport which will lead to traffic backing up and people transvering those massive roads leading to the airport which dont seem very pedestrian friendly
I live about a 10 minutes drive from the airport and if I wanted to get public transport there I would have to take 2 buses and it would take me at least 1 hour to make the journey.
What public transport?
That’s all the encouragement I’ll need to pull over at the roundabout
One step closer to the country charging you to breathe
In 1983 they said the DART (1984) was going to run out to the airport. It’s a 39 year old sham
Yeah, I’m not going to pay that. My Da can drop me off at the roundabout and I’ll walk up from there before I give these absolute leeches any of my money. ‘sustainability drive’ me bollocks.
Public transport to the airport is a joke, I live roughly 6km from it and it’s a minimum of 2 buses to get there, never mind living anywhere outside Dublin
Fuck’s sake. Lads, seriously, when are we marching again?
‘To support the use of public transport’ said the government still heavily subsidising the automotive industry -_-
imagine having like 5 bags and get on a bus that only goes every 2 hours, this is retarded
I used to live in Blanchardstown and it baffled me how quick it was to get there by car, but there was NO FUCKING DIRECT ROUTE BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT TO THE AIRPORT
The absolute joke
I honestly think people should go on strike. Like literally block the entrance to the airport for travellers/ workers and make a huge disruption. This is our national airport, in our nations capital. No other capital city pulls this stuff i.e. Vienna, Athens, etc. Arguably with much better infrasture than Dublin. Its an airport, not a hotel where people can shop around for the higher / lower prices and services.
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>encourage passengers to make greater use of public transport
Maybe build better public transport?
I remember there was suppose to be a luas/dart line from Clongriffin train station to Dublin airport, was completely abandoned.
*What* public transport. What is the public transport we’re supposed to use instead.
This is just another case of using the stick instead of the carrot, that Ireland always seems to go with
Do other countries do this? What’s the logic?
Typical, instead of improving puplic transport just make private less appealing. Cheap solution.
Just build a fucking train station.
I thought they did that already. There are signs everywhere warning that you can be towed and security checking there is someone in parked cars. It’s enough of a pain in the hole to find someone and get them to the car as it is.
I’ll be getting dropped off at mcdonalds so
The mental gymnastics they have to play to turn this into a “positive” thing. Free drop off and pick up moved to the long term car park which is what is 10 mins away by shuttle?
Pure greed by DAA.
Just hop on the metro sure, you’ll be in the city in…
Oh, wait..
This is rancid, being charged to bring your customers to you who you then force to pay over the odds for everything in there because they have no choice.
“As part of our sustainability drive” – that would be by reducing the 20 min car trip to a 10 min car trip plus a 40 min bus trip before we put you into a dinosaur powered tube of farts and fire you at 500mph towards Corfu for €15. Yes, I see how this will help.
This is like the meme of Enda wanting to tax sun… We paid for the damn airport, now we got to pay to use it.
It would take me almost an hour to get there from home by public transport non-taxi, it would take me 10 mins by car…
Atlanta airport has a free “ cellphone parking lot “ where you wait until the person you are picking up is outside ready and they call you and then you just drive the 2 minutes to pickup. It has removed a lot of the congestion as you don’t have to keep circling while waiting for someone. It works really well.
All policy in Ireland is to just charge us for everything. Eat into our discretionary income until we can’t afford nothing but the basics.
Serious unrest ahead in the next year.
It’s typical of Ireland’s half assed attempt at improving something really. They say ah it’ll encourage people to use public transport, except they forgot to build any.
Arseholes.
To put into context how utterly shite our public transport is:
Driving to airport from where I live – 13 minutes.
Use public transport instead: 1 hour 25 minutes
Walking – 2 hours
Remember when they wanted to extend the dart or something up there? and have it run like every 15 minutes… this is like the opposite of that… also this is just going to end up with cars dumping people out somewhere near ish to the airport which will lead to traffic backing up and people transvering those massive roads leading to the airport which dont seem very pedestrian friendly
I live about a 10 minutes drive from the airport and if I wanted to get public transport there I would have to take 2 buses and it would take me at least 1 hour to make the journey.
What public transport?
That’s all the encouragement I’ll need to pull over at the roundabout
One step closer to the country charging you to breathe
In 1983 they said the DART (1984) was going to run out to the airport. It’s a 39 year old sham
Yeah, I’m not going to pay that. My Da can drop me off at the roundabout and I’ll walk up from there before I give these absolute leeches any of my money. ‘sustainability drive’ me bollocks.
Public transport to the airport is a joke, I live roughly 6km from it and it’s a minimum of 2 buses to get there, never mind living anywhere outside Dublin
Fuck’s sake. Lads, seriously, when are we marching again?
‘To support the use of public transport’ said the government still heavily subsidising the automotive industry -_-
imagine having like 5 bags and get on a bus that only goes every 2 hours, this is retarded
I used to live in Blanchardstown and it baffled me how quick it was to get there by car, but there was NO FUCKING DIRECT ROUTE BY PUBLIC TRANSPORT TO THE AIRPORT
The absolute joke
I honestly think people should go on strike. Like literally block the entrance to the airport for travellers/ workers and make a huge disruption. This is our national airport, in our nations capital. No other capital city pulls this stuff i.e. Vienna, Athens, etc. Arguably with much better infrasture than Dublin. Its an airport, not a hotel where people can shop around for the higher / lower prices and services.