So who commutes the furthest?

JimmNeutron

I just had my first real late day travelling out of dublin in rush hour traffic, a real kick in the nuts! I commute from good old ashbourne, co.meath every day and have to get two busses home. Took me about 2 hours and 15 mins today, standing the whole way on both. Makes me wich i looked for accomodation!!

I was wondering if any1 has it worse off? Just some reassurance that its not so bad, really.

Riamfada

Its a mega pain in the hole. I only come from templeogue but Im in traffic for about 45 mins on the way home. It usually takes about 5 minutes. However UCD and Dr Brady in all his devinely gifted knowledge is about to introduce hourly parking rates in UCD rather than spring for the just as cheap option of giving all staff and students validated parking tickets and slapping a few automatic barriers around (like DCU) however it dosnt generate as much money as charging both students and commuters . And we all know UCD is all about the green.

dajaffa

Em 50m to UCD, bout 1km from home to the Health Sci building....

I do know there are ppl who like do be getting up at 6 commuting from Kildare + the like

Garret

for a nine o clock lecture i get up at 6.15 to get the train from drogheda

and that still has me late:mad:

DirkVoodoo

A simple 6km drive for me, 10/15 mins with no traffic, becomes a parking lot in the mornings. Takes me a good 30 mins, 40 if its really bad. This is why im getting a bike. Bye bye car!

Raphael

Got my commute back out down to just over half an hour today, usually around 45 minutes at the best though. It'd be 3 hours if I was going from home.

fish-head

I'd be better off competing in the shortest commute competition... 10 minutes on me bike.

Blush_01

I stroll from Glen. It's a killer.

Sometimes I wish I lived at home. Then I realise that I'd have to be up at half 5 to make the train, and wouldn't get home until almost 11 many nights, plus I'd have no social life.

Then I feel so glad that commuting from home just wasn't a valid option.

Alkers

7 or 8 minutes from going out the garage door to locking my bike in Belfield, about 16 minutes to get to the terrace.

rain on

usually a 10-15 minute cycle for me. but i got the poxy 11b this morning because of the weather and it took ages. mind you if i was to commute from my parents' it'd be a good seven hours. ah cork, we hardly knew ye.

Pythia

My friend commutes from Athy which takes her absolutely ages. Not sure of the exact time.

rainbow kirby

Coming from Firhouse, about 1 hour and 20 minutes. It's a pain.

Byrno

In first year I commuted from Kill, was getting up at 6.15am, 6am if I wanted a shower. At least the bus dropped me to Belfield so I could sleep, then again sometimes it would just drive past Kill and leave a load of us stranded. Then in the evenings it could take about 3 hrs to get home. Moved up in my second year, best thing I ever did! I don't fall asleep in every lecture now, only some of them!

Some of the lads still travel in from Naas though I don't think it's as bad, especially in the evenings now that the new road is built. In first year though I think there was someone in the class travelling in from Banbridge, Co. Down. Definately the furthest I've ever heard of someone commuting.

upmeath

I live in the Royal County too, in the town of Trim, got on-campus last year which was handy enough for getting to know people but it was a pain in the ass having the college breathing down your neck whenever you just wanted to party. This year I'm living around the corner in Donnybrook, it's great, much more freedom and a mere 5 minute walk from Richview...
As regards coming and going home... I'm normally in Trim within 2 hours on a Friday evening and I get from my front door in Trim to my front door in Donnybrook in an hour or so on a Sunday evening... That includes 2 buses...

tribulus

1hour - 1hour 10 coming in, going home about 1.5hours, i mostly stay late now so going home is back down to about 1hour.

I had a friend who came from Tullamore for all of 1st year :eek: and a couple of people who still commute from various places in Meath

seraphimvc

i love this post...........:D

at least 3 hrs (and tats the best i can expect,but if there is a heavy rain or traffic........which happens very frequently) i spend my time on bus everyday.....................

i m lucky coz there is a bus directly from ratoath,co.meath to dublin........since there is only 1 of this bus per day,and it is on 7.45am....plus it suppose(which normally it takes longer) to takes 1 and half hour to reach UCD....u may realise tat i will never make it to my class at 9am on time......
y dun i take an earlier bus get to town centre n take a no.10 bus to school?:rolleyes: the earliest bus u can get from ratoath to town is 7.15am........then take bus from town to ucd...........:rolleyes: which i may make it to school just before 9am(or normally 9.15....lolhate traffic...)
it is fine for me but i just need to wake up at about 6.30am....i only do this for friday since there is a maths modelling on 9am.....i wont bother the others 2 maths on the others 2 days.......

plus i have 2 days of practicals which make me cant leave the school b4 6pm......there will be a bus from town to ratoath at 6.10,6.40,8.00.............
if i lucky enough....i may take the bus on 6.40pm........or else......(which happened on tuesday..lol...i reach home at 9pm.......)

the fact is ,u just need a drive of 30mins from ratoath to ucd....BUT buses on weekdays need to pass by Ashbourne.......which is the reason it takes so long to reach ucd everyday.......lol

life is tough......

definitely going to moving down next year............:cool:

orangerooster

Commute from Laois. Its a pain.

Stepherunie

Living in Roebuck Hall, 15 minute walk to my building tops.

But i'm from cork, if I ever had to go home and come back up for a lecture I don't think there's actually any way for me to be in UCD for nine, could probably make it for half 10, don't live in the city so train is no use to me and earliest bus i can get is 6.30

GrumPy

Garret wrote:

for a nine o clock lecture i get up at 6.15 to get the train from drogheda

and that still has me late:mad:

Your mad! :eek:

Shoulda got a place to stay in Dublin.

Sangre

12 minute cycle, 40 minute walk to Roebuck.

Now its bus into library, about 25/30 minutes in all if there is a bus soon (usually is with 46a)

Waltons

15 minute walk to arts, around 20 to comp sci. I'm a slow walker

delta_bravo

it takes me about 35 minutes from templeogue to sports centre on the bicycle by going my secret mystery route;) i also take the distinct pleasure in being faster than a bus the way home is a biatch tho. stupid crosswinds at rathfarnham:mad:

Vorsprung

I'm on the DART line about 5 mins walk from my station. 3 stops when I'm going to Vincents (about 15 mins door to door) and about 30 mins door to door when I'm in ET.

Chakar

I get the 17 bus from Rathfarnham village doesn't take long to get to UCD.

fish-head

I've heard nothing but bad, evil, heartbreaking things about that bus.

Darcy16

Shoulda gone to Trinity

Donald-Duck

Chakar wrote:

I get the 17 bus from Rathfarnham village doesn't take long to get to UCD.

That bus is evil.It somehow manages to nearly always be late.(I get it from crumlin,living in templeogue so half an hour walk to bus stop).It took the bus from 7.53 to 9.41 to get to ucd on tuesday morning.

Alkers

Didn't think the 17 was that bad? I mean it's completely totally unreliable but I've found that once you got on it, it was decent enough.

Chakar

Yeah its totally unreliable and the schedule really doesn't make sense for example the second last bus is at 21.35 and the last bus is later on at 23.15Why is there not a bus in 22.00 hours??

Riamfada

Darcy16 wrote:

Shoulda gone to Trinity

no parking? rush hour traffic into college? rush hour traffic out of college? city center -> suburbs 5 days a week. Id rather be dead thanks .

Chakar

Grimes wrote:

no parking? rush hour traffic into college? rush hour traffic out of college? city center -> suburbs 5 days a week. Id rather be dead thanks .

I think he means that the buses and LUAS go to the city centre pretty regularly till late so its not a problem for people.

elmyra

Chakar wrote:

I think he means that the buses and LUAS go to the city centre pretty regularly till late so its not a problem for people.

Thanks for clarifying.

Scraggs

Last monday it took me 4 and a half hours to get from Carlow to UCD it was not a good day. On average though it takes about 3 and a half... can't wait to move up permanently I was not made for commuting!

Mrs. MacGyver

Takes me 15 mins to walk from North Strand to O'Conell St. Then 55 mins on the bus to get in for nine (1hour 10 mins in total) Traffic is mad in the mornings. (only have one morning lecture a week. Usuallt make it out in 25 mins from town.

Font22

bout 40 mins drive for me to get into ucd from malahide. but my earliest lecture this year is at 11 so v little traffic!

jumpymunky

I take about 2 1/2 hours.

Im v lucky tho cos my earliest lecture isnt until 10..so i get the 7.58 from drogheda.That said have to leave my house before 7.30 cos the traffic in drogheda can be a bitch..its pot luck really. the train goes to sydney parade then its on to the 2,3 or 18. gettin the bus depends on whether the level crossin stays down tho..so some days i miss the bus by seconds!!

the walk down passed rte and vincents is a pain in the hole.In the evenins i finish at 3..tho usually before it cos ther tutorials and ****..so normally i just miss the 14.52 bus..the 2/3 bus timetable is crap cos its beside the 10 which seems to go every 2 minutes!!

the worst thing tho is the DART..ther supposed to run every 10 minuts r sumtin? well they dont and ther always late..they stop for ages btwn stations for no apparent reason and ther max speed seems to be about 5 miles an hour.

They cud solve all our problems if they put a LUAS at or at least nearer to ucd..i mean wer the f*ck is windy arbour?? not near ucd anyway.

On the campus accom waitin list the guy whos name was above mine had an address in Down..kilkeel r sumwer like that..thats not even near the m1 ..so it must take him abiout 4 hrs if he commutes!

Garret

when the level crossing is down just take the bridge over the tracks, its usually faster, unless you can actually see the approaching train

oh and the 8.20 enterprise gets me into college by 10, and thats me walking from sydney parade, thats an extra 22 mins of sleep for ya if you wanna try it out someday

you have to get the DART from Connolly to Sydney Parade

Riamfada

jumpymunky wrote:

They cud solve all our problems if they put a LUAS at or at least nearer to ucd..i mean wer the f*ck is windy arbour?? not near ucd anyway.
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its not that far . Id say a 20 min walk to the clonskeagh enterance