The main reason I have a car is so I can do things outside of the city. Glendalough is a great location, it’s really popular with hikers and climbers. It has 2 large carparks that regularly fill up on busy days. There is a bus service but with only 2 services a day it’s not really suitable for most people. I go to Glendalough multiple times a year. If there was a better bus service, I would happily get the bus instead of driving.
Ireland’s natural attractions in general need better public transport access, it’s too often that enjoying Ireland’s natural beauty is locked behind private vehicles, which are pretty much the most polluting way to travel by land.
Even if year-long service is hard to make viable it would be good to have a seasonal service, or even to include on routes serving rural villages.
This is a great idea. I can’t understand why Ireland doesn’t have public transport to mountains or trails. So people can hike or bike. Have ranks on the buses for mountains bikes too. Will be great for the local economy too.
This is a great idea – the Dublin mountains are difficult to get into without a car, and hiking is very popular both for locals and tourists. We’re missing a trick by not building a world-class hiking product in the Dublin mountains, there are few other capital cities with both the sea and the mountains so close – some of the villages (e.g. Enniskerry/Kilternan/Stepaside) could do really well from an influx of tourists.
The main thing is that a service like this needs to be reliable or people won’t use it – you don’t want to be stuck on the side of the mountain for a bus that doesn’t show up, or doesn’t run on whatever day you are there.
I can’t even get a bus to work here in Waterford City…
Think how great it would be to hop on the bus and go explore the Dublin mountains by hiking or trail running. It doesn’t make sense to not have bus access to some of our beautiful spots.
I wouldn’t fancy driving a bus along that proposed route, a mini-bus maybe, but anything bigger the road wouldn’t be suitable.
They hate cars of course they’re going to say that.
They don’t care about commuters. They are actually worse the last few months than ever before and keep retweeting every tweet one lad puts up.
He surely is running both the accounts
Ireland’s public transport philosophically exists to facilitate work commuters. There’s nowhere I know that it connects with trailheads. Off the top of my head:
– Connemara: No direct connections. I have to hike/run from Maam Cross or Recess to reach the Maumturks or Twelve Bens.
– There’s *one* service a week between Galway and Leenaun, and it runs on a Tuesday morning.
– The Wicklow Way: There are no public transport connections to the trailhead at Clonegall in Carlow.
– Donegal: No connections to or from Errigal and that range.
– Mayo: No connections to Ballycroy National Park and the southern trailhead of the Bangor Erris Way. You need to hike/run into Newport.
– Mayo: No connections to or from Mweelrea, Delphi or the Sheeffries.
– Clare: No connections to Burren National Park.
– Cork: No connections to the Galtees at the west end.
It’s an endless list. There’s always this gap of a few kilometres which is a fucking pain or outright impossible to close without a car.
As someone big into astronomy without a car this would be a fucking god send
I thought this was going to be yet another “but I want a direct bus service straight from my door to my workplace” article… but it’s actually quite reasonable and sensible.
It’s a fair idea (local) … although they really need to sort the roads out first
Get ta fuck. I live in the mountains and there is a couple of buses come out hear and they are so dangerous cause the roads can’t accommodate them. Best thing you can do is get a bus to Marley park and start the Wicklow way from there. the Dublin commuter coalition are a bunch of gobshites who seem to know nothing of practicality which would probably involve widening roads and to be honest we don’t want more people out here more people just means more wankers dropping rubbish all over the place if anything it should be made more difficult for wankers to get out here.
The most enjoyable thing about being up the mountains is the lack of scumbags. Hike Dublin/Wicklow most weekends and have never met a prick. I’m 100% sure that would change if they could hop on a bus with their cans of Rockshore and speaker. The 40 foot is ruined, Howth a nightmare. Build it and they will come.
Screw that. A cable car from the top of the spire is what is needed here.
The mountains and the bay are definitely Dublin’s greatest assets. I know we complain endlessly but it’s an absolutely stunning location for a city. It’s hard to measure the value of things like access to the mountains, but I think it would make a huge quality of life improvement for at least some people.
The only way I can think is to get the 44 to Enniskerry but even then it’s a massive trek. There should 100% be a bus to Glendalough that runs regularly. It’s one of my favourite places and I’m sure many others. I can’t drive though so I am really limited. Trying to get around Ireland without a car has been challenging to say the least. Unfair my epilepsy prevents me from driving at the moment but it wouldn’t be a problem if we had proper transport links. I’m just lucky I live in Dublin
Extremely relevant to my current situation! Trying to get to Avondale from Waterford at a decent time on PT is a pain.
Like the white water rapids type deal for Dublin city centre, can maybe some of the rest of the country get some funding and a functioning public transport system in place before we start pumping money into bus services to cater to a few people from Dublin?
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The main reason I have a car is so I can do things outside of the city. Glendalough is a great location, it’s really popular with hikers and climbers. It has 2 large carparks that regularly fill up on busy days. There is a bus service but with only 2 services a day it’s not really suitable for most people. I go to Glendalough multiple times a year. If there was a better bus service, I would happily get the bus instead of driving.
Ireland’s natural attractions in general need better public transport access, it’s too often that enjoying Ireland’s natural beauty is locked behind private vehicles, which are pretty much the most polluting way to travel by land.
Even if year-long service is hard to make viable it would be good to have a seasonal service, or even to include on routes serving rural villages.
This is a great idea. I can’t understand why Ireland doesn’t have public transport to mountains or trails. So people can hike or bike. Have ranks on the buses for mountains bikes too. Will be great for the local economy too.
This is a great idea – the Dublin mountains are difficult to get into without a car, and hiking is very popular both for locals and tourists. We’re missing a trick by not building a world-class hiking product in the Dublin mountains, there are few other capital cities with both the sea and the mountains so close – some of the villages (e.g. Enniskerry/Kilternan/Stepaside) could do really well from an influx of tourists.
The main thing is that a service like this needs to be reliable or people won’t use it – you don’t want to be stuck on the side of the mountain for a bus that doesn’t show up, or doesn’t run on whatever day you are there.
I can’t even get a bus to work here in Waterford City…
Think how great it would be to hop on the bus and go explore the Dublin mountains by hiking or trail running. It doesn’t make sense to not have bus access to some of our beautiful spots.
I wouldn’t fancy driving a bus along that proposed route, a mini-bus maybe, but anything bigger the road wouldn’t be suitable.
They hate cars of course they’re going to say that.
They don’t care about commuters. They are actually worse the last few months than ever before and keep retweeting every tweet one lad puts up.
He surely is running both the accounts
Ireland’s public transport philosophically exists to facilitate work commuters. There’s nowhere I know that it connects with trailheads. Off the top of my head:
– Connemara: No direct connections. I have to hike/run from Maam Cross or Recess to reach the Maumturks or Twelve Bens.
– There’s *one* service a week between Galway and Leenaun, and it runs on a Tuesday morning.
– The Wicklow Way: There are no public transport connections to the trailhead at Clonegall in Carlow.
– Donegal: No connections to or from Errigal and that range.
– Mayo: No connections to Ballycroy National Park and the southern trailhead of the Bangor Erris Way. You need to hike/run into Newport.
– Mayo: No connections to or from Mweelrea, Delphi or the Sheeffries.
– Clare: No connections to Burren National Park.
– Cork: No connections to the Galtees at the west end.
It’s an endless list. There’s always this gap of a few kilometres which is a fucking pain or outright impossible to close without a car.
As someone big into astronomy without a car this would be a fucking god send
I thought this was going to be yet another “but I want a direct bus service straight from my door to my workplace” article… but it’s actually quite reasonable and sensible.
It’s a fair idea (local) … although they really need to sort the roads out first
Get ta fuck. I live in the mountains and there is a couple of buses come out hear and they are so dangerous cause the roads can’t accommodate them. Best thing you can do is get a bus to Marley park and start the Wicklow way from there. the Dublin commuter coalition are a bunch of gobshites who seem to know nothing of practicality which would probably involve widening roads and to be honest we don’t want more people out here more people just means more wankers dropping rubbish all over the place if anything it should be made more difficult for wankers to get out here.
The most enjoyable thing about being up the mountains is the lack of scumbags. Hike Dublin/Wicklow most weekends and have never met a prick. I’m 100% sure that would change if they could hop on a bus with their cans of Rockshore and speaker. The 40 foot is ruined, Howth a nightmare. Build it and they will come.
Screw that. A cable car from the top of the spire is what is needed here.
The mountains and the bay are definitely Dublin’s greatest assets. I know we complain endlessly but it’s an absolutely stunning location for a city. It’s hard to measure the value of things like access to the mountains, but I think it would make a huge quality of life improvement for at least some people.
The only way I can think is to get the 44 to Enniskerry but even then it’s a massive trek. There should 100% be a bus to Glendalough that runs regularly. It’s one of my favourite places and I’m sure many others. I can’t drive though so I am really limited. Trying to get around Ireland without a car has been challenging to say the least. Unfair my epilepsy prevents me from driving at the moment but it wouldn’t be a problem if we had proper transport links. I’m just lucky I live in Dublin
Extremely relevant to my current situation! Trying to get to Avondale from Waterford at a decent time on PT is a pain.
Like the white water rapids type deal for Dublin city centre, can maybe some of the rest of the country get some funding and a functioning public transport system in place before we start pumping money into bus services to cater to a few people from Dublin?