How to get to UCD?

6th

Ok can anyone tell me the easiest way to get from Four Courts to UCD on a moped? Finish work at 5.30 today and have to get to UCD by 6 for some film thingy for a friend who's out there.

singingstranger

I suggest:

- go up to Stephens' Green
- down Leeson St
- keep going straight, over the canal, straight on through Donnybrook
- keep straight again... eventually you'll approach the flyover with the main entrance.

Creamy Goodness

the flyover will by the flyover just after you pass RTÉ (big mast outside it)

Keedowah

use aa routefinder

http://www.aaireland.ie/routes/

elmyra

vehicles under 50cc not allowed on dual carriageway, no?

singingstranger

If this is the case, then at Donnybrook take the right turn for Ranelagh, go straight through it and eventually you're up at the Clonskeagh back entrance, beside the AIB bank.

Hermione*

I don't drive, but I'd imagine that's motorways you're thinking of, dear!

irlrobins

Yep. mopeds are ok on the N11

elmyra

Yup, I know 'bout motorways, I just thought duallers too, could easily be wrong, I am a mere woman!

I've never seen a moped on the dualler though.

Edit: Ah, Robin has spoken. *hangs head in shame*

Pythia

elmyra wrote:

Yup, I know 'bout motorways, I just thought duallers too, could easily be wrong, I am a mere woman!

I've never seen a moped on the dualler though.

Edit: Ah, Robin has spoken. *hangs head in shame*

I think someone's taken a fancy to Robin!

aphex™

singingstranger wrote:

I suggest:

- go up to Stephens' Green
- down Leeson St

You can't go from Stephen's Green on to Leeson street unless you're a bus, as far as i know.

singingstranger

Well, I guess you could do the slightly more awkward thing and go down Baggot St instead, turn right at Waterloo Rd, which will bring you back to Morehampton Rd/Donnybrook anyway...

*edit: yeah, this is the 10 bus route, isn't it?

blondie83

You can defenitely go down the Stillorgan Dual-Carrigeway on a moped - I've done it on the back of one quite a few times when i was younger!

6th

Ok i'm gonna mix all that advice together and try arrive in one piece, moped are fine on any roads except motorways.

I look forward to visiting your fine establishment.

singingstranger

Right, then if all of the above is to be mixed:

- to the Green
- down Baggot St
- turn right onto Waterloo Rd and then left onto Morehampton Rd
- keep going straight, you'll hit the dualler
- eventually you reach the UCD flyover.

Red Alert

Duallers are just a wide road - not a motorway. Ride on!

meowCat

Pythia wrote:

I think someone's taken a fancy to Robin!

Let her.
And why would you care? You just attested him a certain delicate dysfunction in the other thread there anways

EDIT: sorry for off-topic remark!

Anyways, 6th, I think you're best off taking the bus out to ucd and back. It's on the QBC, so you should have no problems getting out and coming back later.

ferdi

aphex&#8482 wrote:

You can't go from Stephen's Green on to Leeson street unless you're a bus, as far as i know.

or if your on a bicycle, in which case road signs and street markings dont apply to you.

elmyra

Why anyone would want to be a bus or a bicycle is beyond me. I like being a person!

On an aside, I hate cyclists

ferdi

why? because we arnt polluting the environment to within an inch of its life?

elmyra

ferdi wrote:

why? because we arnt polluting the environment to within an inch of its life?

No because they scare the bejesus out of me. They always lean on the car when you're stopped at the lights and then you're afraid to move off incase ya hurt them. They also have a tendancy to not signal when they're turning, which is weird, considering it makes it a tad less perilous...

ferdi

yes there are some bogie cyclists but mostly i think we give back what we get from motorists, ie: abuse.

elmyra

I never abuse ye, I respect that you take crap from motorists, but tis the few that ruin it for the many as usual.

singingstranger

/me hearts the 46A and the QBC

/me doesn't heart the bike he fell off last November outside O'Reilly Hall and hasn't ridden since

elmyra

singingstranger wrote:

/me hearts the 46A and the QBC

/me doesn't heart the bike he fell off last November outside O'Reilly Hall and hasn't ridden since

awww! poor Gav! *hug*







my dirty little secret is that i don't know how to cycle

singingstranger

/me finds the easiest way, in these circumstances, is to walk to college. There you go.

Anyway, I wonder if the OP got here in time...

ferdi

who cares if you cant cycle, you have a car:D

elmyra

ferdi wrote:

who cares if you cant cycle, you have a car:D

mmmm, bikes don't require petrol though! meh, i'd like to be able to but i've no balance and a knee problem that means it hurts a lot to turn the pedals....sob.

ferdi

elmyra wrote:

mmmm, bikes don't require petrol though!

or tax or insurance or oil or water or NCT

elmyra

ferdi wrote:

or tax or insurance or oil or water or NCT

or paying for a theory test and licence so ya can use em. Yep, bicycles all the way.

rain on

i don't know what i'd do without my bicycle.

humbert

I wish I'd decent bike on the one I have I practically have to peddle going down hill ffs. The only way to get to the RDS or anywhere else in the city center imo!