How Far Do You Travel to UCD

Riamfada

Just a question that popped into my head. With my little motor in the garage im faced with the prospect of getting up at 6am to get two busses to UCD and ill probably end up just staying in bed in the morning. How far and how long does it take you to get to college?

Chinafoot

I live in Balbriggan so it's 50 - 60 minutes on the train (depending on the time of morning) then off at connolly and wait for a bus which can take up to half an hour to get to ucd, again depending on the time of morning.

Sometimes the train from balbriggan goes all the way out to sydney parade so I get off there and walk to UCD, depending on the weather

Dave!

I couldn't tell you how far it is, but my route is:

Tallaght village - Templeogue - Terenure village - [17 route -- dunno where it goes through )] - BELFIELD!

Font22

i travel from malahide. used to be hell when i didnt have a car but now its grand. nine o clock starts used to be tough tho (up at half six to leave my house for a quarter past seven to be for exactly nine). this semester i have no nine o clock starts though which is a god send!

Waltons

I have a feeling you people are going to kill me, but it's a 15 minute walk from my house to the arts block...

Pythia

I live about a half hour walk away, less if I walked quickly, from the Sci Building. Although I never walk.

blondie83

I live beside the clonskeagh entrance to UCD - but if it makes you feel any better I spend about an hour and a half going to DCU every day and an hour and a half back!

Mr.Nice Guy

Grimes wrote:

With my little motor in the garage im faced with the prospect of getting up at 6am to get two busses to UCD and ill probably end up just staying in bed in the morning. How far and how long does it take you to get to college?

Welcome to my world except I don't have the motor at all and I get two buses starting from 7:45.

Oh the price one pays for being a Northsider and thus superior to everyone. (I'm sure this harmless sentence will cause no offence )

rainbow kirby

I live in Firhouse... if I get the 49 and 46A it takes about an hour and 20 minutes to get to college, but if I schedule it right and don't have any major waits it takes me 45 minutes to get in on the 75 and 17. That's rare though, because the 17 sucks ass. Though after nearly 4 years of the long haul every day you get kinda used to it.

rasher_b2

I live in Blackrock so I cycle in and out every day. It takes around 15 mintues. It's quicker than the bus but it's not pretty on rainy days.

Mr_Roger_Bongos

I live near Hugh Brady's house - 10 mins to the Quinn school!

Umaro

from my front door in Brittas Bay to getting out at the bus stop at UCD = 1hr 40 mins

time to get back to my door after X amount of minutes at the bus stop waiting for a bus = 1hr 20

so..
3hrs + X

roughly 40 miles.

BKtje

Takes about 30mins on the bus off peak. Takes about 30mins to cycle (tho i got sweaty hair when i get in). Basically the daily thought is... do you want to have sweaty* hair today. Sweaty hair seems to be winning the fight this year



*BY sweaty hair i mean slightly damp...at the back where it comes into contact with my warm scarf. This may be more info than you want to know

Sangre

About to leave in 10 minutes for a 40 minute walk in to Roebuck. Its a bit longer if I'm walking home from the library.
If I cycled in its 12 minutes.

All this exercise keeps my butt firm and abs rock hard.

elmyra

DaveMcG wrote:

I couldn't tell you how far it is, but my route is:

Tallaght village - Templeogue - Terenure village - [17 route -- dunno where it goes through )] - BELFIELD!

why don't you get the 75? It brings you right up into rathfarnham- that's straight onto the 17 route. Hate the cursed 17, used to take it last year. ew!

Me...takes 10 minutes in the car from dundrum during the day (I've done it in seven tho, hehehehe). Alas, with all my nine starts and finishing at 5 three evenings a week, it takes me about forty minutes to get in from the acursed Luas bridge. Ugh, why do they even HAVE a yellow box there, people don't take any friggin' notice....*drifts off into rant*

the evil lime

Font22 wrote:

i travel from malahide. used to be hell when i didnt have a car but now its grand. nine o clock starts used to be tough tho (up at half six to leave my house for a quarter past seven to be for exactly nine). this semester i have no nine o clock starts though which is a god send!

Yeay! 32X. I'm still on it, so up at half six, in for nine.

Scraggs

I live on the dundrum rd. so its half an hour walk from house to arts block.. altho i have done it in 15....

My flatmate has a car and lucky for me this semester we both have same starts on tuesdays and wednesdays which means i get an extra 20 mins in bed

panda100

Mr_Roger_Bongos wrote:

I live near Hugh Brady's house - 10 mins to the Quinn school!

Cool-your neighbours-did you bring him cookies as a housewarming gift when he moved in? Live at the leinster grounds so takes me 5mins if the bus comes but usually i cycle-15 mins to ucd and 20 to the terrace(damn uphill leeson bridge)

humbert

I'm living just south of Rathmines now so it's a little over half an hour walk in, have had a puncture since before Christmas so haven't cycled it yet, doubt it'll be more than 15 mins:) I miss my bike, was getting pretty fit before the break, now it'll prob be back to huffing and gasping after 10 mins:(

BKtje

not smoking helps

...tho that said i dont think you are a smoker

Mr_Roger_Bongos

I went up in my shorts one day, to use his million pound gym (that i partially paid for), but he wouldn't let me in. He's the neighbour from hell.

White Rabbit

25 minute cycle followed by a half hour faffing about in the showers in the sports centre and traveling back and forth from my arts block locker.

An hour in all i suppose, but that includes a shower (fully necessary after cycle)

LovelyHurling

I live a 3 min cycle away from the vet college, doesnt stop me being late everyday, though. But all my mates live in Terenure and I almost spend as much time there than in merv... A bit odd

my route is:

Tallaght village - Templeogue - Terenure village - [17 route -- dunno where it goes through )] - BELFIELD!

I get that bus when in Terenure, bout twice a week. I used to cycle but thats no fun anymore, a bit like the pneumonia you get from the rain. 17 is a bitchin bus.

Blush_01

If I leave home an hour before my class, depending on traffic and waiting for a bus (46a) after my 10-15 minute walk to the bus stop (because I'm to lazy to walk fast), I'll be early.

Why do all of you getting the 75 get the 17 from Rathfarnham? Why not just stay on the 75 to Stillorgan and then get the 46a? It's a more regular bus route, you're guaranteed to get one within a few minutes of reaching the bus stop, and it takes about 10 minutes from Stillorgan to college if the traffic isn't great. Is it really quicker to get the 17?

irlrobins

5-7 min walk for me. Used to be on campus.

LovelyHurling

Blush_01 wrote:

Why do all of you getting the 75 get the 17 from Rathfarnham? Why not just stay on the 75 to Stillorgan and then get the 46a? It's a more regular bus route, you're guaranteed to get one within a few minutes of reaching the bus stop, and it takes about 10 minutes from Stillorgan to college if the traffic isn't great. Is it really quicker to get the 17?

I reaffirm my bitchin bus comment. None of that flitting and scooting for me, I like to keep things simple in my simple little world, thank you very much

Ruskie4Rent

I live about an hour and a 15 mins away with a train and then a bus. Not fun but I'm gettin used to it.

I live 1hr 40 to 2hr 20 away, depending on traffic.

pimpy_c

I live in Roebuck Castle so I jump a wall and Im in UCD! Although, that's not always an option coz services weld up the fence we Roebuckians go through after the wall is jumped. Having said all this i now have the car in Dublin so I just drive for 7 mins instead of walking for 10 mins! Yeah, Im lazy! Wana fight about it?

Alkers

8 minute cycle from leaving my bedroom to locking my bike outside the science block.

Ruskie4Rent

Deleted User wrote:

I live 1hr 40 to 2hr 20 away, depending on traffic.

Jebus:eek: what time do you get up at to get to the 9am's? assuming you so so

**elaine**

I live about an hour and 15/30 minutes away.
Not good for my two 9am lectures!

Chinafoot

I'm so glad I have no 9am starts this year. That always involved being up at 6/6:30.....10 minute walk to the train station for the 7:15 am train into town before trying to get a bus out to UCD.

My earliest one now is 10am so I get the 8am train. Usually leave me about 20 minutes free when I get in.

TheVan

I'm blessed.....40 minute walk or 25 mins door to door if I get the bus!


I used to know a guy from Athlone who got the early-bird train up to Dublin every day!....it's gonna be tough to beat that!

orangerooster

From my front door to UCD its about two hours thirty minutes by car, train, and two buses. Its not pleasant at all.

arbeitsscheuer

Bout 30-45 mins on the 10 or 46A... And I have no 9am starts.
Living in town rocks for that reason alone.

Having said all that, I still slept in this mornin and missed 2 lectures...:o

Ruskie4Rent

Ruskie4Rent wrote:

Jebus:eek: what time do you get up at to get to the 9am's? assuming you so so

About 6am. And the great thing is that I'm in at 9am everyday, which was the same situation for Semester 1.

PaulDoh

Clondalkin Station--->Heuston--->90/91/92 to city centre--->10/46A to Belfield
I get up at 6:45 for my 9am lectures (7:15 train). It's not fun.

LovelyHurling

Some people here should invest in helicopters.

How crap is it that a place with thousands and thousands of people working and studying there is essentially only served by one frequent bus route (city centre-->donnybrook-->ucd)

JustCoz

I live about an hour from ucd, used to have to get a train and a bus which was hell on rainy days and usually just resulted in me not going in. Now I get a lift so it's grand but nothing pisses me off more than people who live 15mins away driving in and taking up parking spaces. Seriosly how lazy can you get?!

18AD

Averaging 40 minutes on the 17 from Rathfarnham. No 9am starts, so no life threatening ground floor standing in the mornings. Those school kids that throw stuff off the bus at people can be rather entertaining on the way home at times. Other than that, you're lucky to even be on that bus at times :rolleyes:

namaimo

If I live on campus does that still count?!

Jonny Arson

Live in Baldoyle, 5 minute walk to DART, 35 mins to Sydney Parade. Either get the not very regular No.3 bus (really should be a shuttle bus in the mornings) or a 20 minute walk to college with the greatest Tesco in the world on the way up to keep me happy!

All in all about an hour, never more than an hour 15.

snickerpuss

Live in coolock, get 27x, can take hour and half to two hours depending on traffic, i've no 9 o clocks this year so i'm not too fussed.

Julesie

I live in Leixlip, so its a bit of a trek in the mornings. I get the first 66x of the morning and that just about leaves me in for nine. I remember the good ol' days when you could get the 7:15 bus and be in college before 8.30 with just enough time to have a hot breakfast and a read through the paper. I hate traffic.

I tend to get the train home in the evenings which means a 20 min walk to Sydney Parade, 1hr to Leixlip if its a direct train and then a 10 min walk to my house. So i guess id struggle to do it in anything under an hour and a half...

God it never seemed that bad in my head.

Jules

DirkVoodoo

I drive, 30 mins on average from door to car park in front of engineering building (the real front, not the side facing restaurant). Nice on a rainy day, not so nice when average speed reads as 12 mph and i would be better off cycling (if only UCD weren't a blackhole for bikes, i think most people i know have had at least 1 stolen :0 )

Ruskie4Rent

Julesie wrote:

I live in Leixlip, so its a bit of a trek in the mornings. I get the first 66x of the morning and that just about leaves me in for nine. I remember the good ol' days when you could get the 7:15 bus and be in college before 8.30 with just enough time to have a hot breakfast and a read through the paper. I hate traffic.

I tend to get the train home in the evenings which means a 20 min walk to Sydney Parade, 1hr to Leixlip if its a direct train and then a 10 min walk to my house. So i guess id struggle to do it in anything under an hour and a half...

God it never seemed that bad in my head.

Jules

Me too:D . I din't get the 66x though.

Riamfada

Bloke Stabbed in da'Lip there this morning. An hour on the train, didnt think it would be that much

ferdi

i cycle 5km, 20 mins

Economaniac!

i cycle, takes me 8mins in the morning and 5mins in the evening, damn hills! funnily enough i tend to be cycling into the sun and the wind both ways!

hullaballoo

My answer is the same as TheVan's.

Used to be a way different story when I lived at home though. Up at 6.30 and on a bloody bus for an hour and a half, only to be told not to bother coming into the lecture because I'm fcuking 5 fcuking minutes fcuking late.