Commuting to UCD

Spectator#1

Does anyone else here commute to UCD? I get the train from North Co. Dublin. It's pretty rough, I could tell you stories; people fainting, getting sick, love affairs, evil train men who want to take over Irish Rail, trains tilting at at least a 30 degree angle. It's a battlefield every morning, and then there's always the journey home...

What's the farthest place people commute to UCD from and how long does it take? I'm travelling a good three to four hours easily a day commuting.

Chakar

I get the ol' 17 bus from Rathfarnham takes me about forty five minutes.However that doesn't count the time waiting for the bus which is usually under twenty five minutes as I rarely check the timetables.

Darkbloom

That's mental. It'd take me less time to come from Offaly.

Donald-Duck

Chakar wrote:

I get the ol' 17 bus from Rathfarnham takes me about forty five minutes.However that doesn't count the time waiting for the bus which is usually under twenty five minutes as I rarely check the timetables.

I hate that bus sometimes, especially if I have to be in for a 9 O'clock lecture. All those annoying girls from that Irish school,with the green uniform:mad:

Takes me between 40min and 2 hours each way depending on the time of day...

JimmNeutron

I get a direct bus from Ashbourne in tha royal county every morning and it gets me over in about an hour, give or take 10 minutes, pretty much every morning. I thought i had it bad but people living in dublin take longer to get here!! And to think i was gonna move out and leave mammy's dinners and clean clothes:D haha

Pythia

I have a friend who commutes from Athy.

The 17 bus just breaks your heart. The timetable and when it actually comes are two different things. And then sometimes it doesn't come at all.

Font22

i used to get the dart from malahide and used to take about an hour and 20 minutes. now i drive, still takes awhile but way better!

Spectator#1

We know each other, Font22.

Scraggs

Pythia wrote:

I have a friend who commutes from Athy.

Athy is about 15 mins on the train from where I live so I really feel for them, I lasted a whole 3 weeks as a commuter.

Garret

i commute from drogheda

its not that bad, never seen anyone faint, get sick, and the trains never tilt that[/it] much

about the same 3 and a half to 4 hours

Chakar

Donald-Duck wrote:

I hate that bus sometimes, especially if I have to be in for a 9 O'clock lecture. All those annoying girls from that Irish school,with the green uniform:mad:

Takes me between 40min and 2 hours each way depending on the time of day...

I hate those girls.You would think they would be fricking quiet.

jimi_t

Garret wrote:

i commute from drogheda

its not that bad, never seen anyone faint, get sick, and the trains never tilt that[/it] much

about the same 3 and a half to 4 hours

Yeah, I've met a few who commute from Dundalk. Sheer Madness.

I'm one of those awful awful people who live at home and can still walk from my door to the Newman in about 40 minutes.

Pythia

jimi_t wrote:

Yeah, I've met a few who commute from Dundalk. Sheer Madness.

I'm one of those awful awful people who live at home and can still walk from my door to the Newman in about 40 minutes.

So am I. I still moved out to beside Roebuck Castle now.

jimi_t

Pythia wrote:

So am I. I still moved out to beside Roebuck Castle now.

Why?

Waltons

jimi_t wrote:

Yeah, I've met a few who commute from Dundalk. Sheer Madness.

I'm one of those awful awful people who live at home and can still walk from my door to the Newman in about 40 minutes.

Ditto, cept it takes about 10 minutes for me :eek:

Pythia

jimi_t wrote:

Why?

Freedom, to grow up and to live with my best friend.
I got the chance, so why not?

dajaffa

jimi_t wrote:

I'm one of those awful awful people who live at home and can still walk from my door to the Newman in about 40 minutes.

I'm like that, only divided by eight. My house is nearer to the Health Sci building than most Res...

/prepares to have things thrown at self

singingstranger

dajaffa wrote:

I'm like that, only divided by eight. My house is nearer to the Health Sci building than most Res...

/prepares to have things thrown at self

dajaffa, there's no way you can walk to Newman from yours in five minutes. Try ten.

Google Earth says I live 1,109 miles from Newman, and by road/car/sea it'd take 23 hours and 55 minutes to drive.

jimi_t

Pythia wrote:

Freedom, to grow up and to live with my best friend.
I got the chance, so why not?

Nice if you have the money I suppose.

Umaro

When I was commuting last semester I'd spend about 3 hours travelling each day. I live in Brittas Bay in Wicklow. I went to my doctor because I was bugging out like crazy and he said it was the stress of commuting.. that and Gilberts Syndrome.

This semester I'm on campus in Sydney - it's hella sweet. 5-10 minute walk to class, 5-10 minute walk to beer-place and 2 minute walk to the nearest barbie.

scop

Takes me about an hour to an hour and a half to travel to UCD from my door. I don't head in until after 9 because I've given up on that kind of commuting, and I leave UCD every day after 6 o clock so I have avoided all that traffic jazz for years now. My journey is the 10/46A or whatever to O'Connell Street and then the Red Line Mayhem Luas.

Sarn

That 6 minute drive in really kills me (I'm trying to bring my carbon emissions up to the average Irish persons).
Seriously though, living close to where you work/study is a blessing, long distance commuters have my sympathy.

McGinty

I live in Arklow and it only takes an hour, for me it reading/study time, on the whole its not too bad, except maybe waiting for buses which are mostly late around 20-30 minutes, but its not too bad compared to some stories here, having said that my timetable is better this year, I hate getting the evening bus home as it is a scramble for the seats, so for me this year no complaints so far.

dajaffa

singingstranger wrote:

dajaffa, there's no way you can walk to Newman from yours in five minutes. Try ten.

Ah but my main axis of UCd-dom is the Health Science/Student centre combo which is doable in five, when listening to fast tunes anyway.

Font22

we do spectator? who are you? ohhhhhh the mystery!

hullaballoo

Font and Spectator: don't even think about having that conversation on this forum. If you want to get to know each other better, take it to PM. Do not post it here.

Spectator#1

Nah it's cool hulla, I've already pm'd font22. Turns out we were a donkey in a previous life. She was the ass, I was the head.

Why can't we, incidentally? If you don't mind me asking? Is it something to do with privacy?

Sangre

Its do with with the fact it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE THREAD

Stabshauptmann

dajaffa wrote:

Ah but my main axis of UCd-dom is the Health Science/Student centre combo which is doable in five, when listening to fast tunes anyway.

Ha!

I like to save up all my business in the student centre so I only have to go once a week (at most).

Id never take the 11 to UCD anymore, its about a 20min walk to glenomena from the clonskeagh bank.

Its funny when you get into a routine what you begin to consider as out of the way. UCD is really ****ing big

gubbie

I live a 40 min walk away from UCC
I now live a 15 min walk plus 15 min bus ride to UCD.
I won't complain
But I could be in Cork

And seeing as its a 10 min walk down to the student centre from Eng, I am rarely there

pretty*monster

I bus in from the north side. It takes anything from an hour and a half (morning rus hour if I miss the express bus) to fourty minutes (making excellent time after 7pm, having the bus from town being right there when I get to Eden Quey).

Stabshauptmann

This year Im in glenomena and cant complain

But when I was in Drimnagh

Option 1
17 Bus, 2hrs + in rush hour, 40mins last bus (literally no cars on road)
Option 2
Bus into town and back out
50mins regardless of traffic
Option 3 Preferred option
Cycle: 25 - 35 mins depending on energy

snickerpuss

I get the 27x from Coolock. Usually takes an hour and a half to 2 hours depending on Malahide Road traffic.
UCD -> Coolock in the afternoons is about an hour.
Doesn't bother me really. I'm just used to it now.

arbeitsscheuer

Travel from Lucan, Co. Dublin. Takes me between an hour and a half to two hours to get to UCD from my gaff. Variable times due to traffic and irregularity of bus service.
25 bus into town, then 10/46A/145 out to belfield.

Riamfada

Travel from my gaff in my car. Its so tedious.

Get up at 7am
Get in car
Put heating on
Go to garage get fags , coffee and breakfast.
Sit in traffic listening to morning news and belfieldfm
Eat breakfast, smoking and drinking coffee
Finish food and read metro/heraldam
Get to college around 7:30am and get best parking

The best days are raniy ones when im all tuckered up in the car.


Yes im a total cnut

cast_iron

If the times (and bus stop location) suit, the 25x goes straight to Belfield.

Spectator#1

Sangre wrote:

Its do with with the fact it has NOTHING TO DO WITH THE THREAD

OK THANK YOU!

Somebody above said that they hadn't ever seen someone faint or get sick on the trains on the way up. You've been one of the lucky ones my friend. I presume because you're coming from Drogheda you get to use that absolute ride of a train the Enterprise. That train ispired Gene Roddenberry, that's how great it is. First warp engine in Ireland.

Garret

Spectator#1 wrote:

OK THANK YOU!

Somebody above said that they hadn't ever seen someone faint or get sick on the trains on the way up. You've been one of the lucky ones my friend. I presume because you're coming from Drogheda you get to use that absolute ride of a train the Enterprise. That train ispired Gene Roddenberry, that's how great it is. First warp engine in Ireland.

this semester i get the enterprise in the morning yes, but on the way back, i get the normal commuter trains as the timetables dont suit


it is a lovely train, if you can get a seat, it really isnt suited to standing what with its lack of anything to hold onto, but fortunately i'v memorized where the doors stop, if the train driver stops where he should, oh yeah im that cool:cool:, you also have to contend with the fact that it is on time about once a week

last semester it was pretty much the normal commuters, and I never saw anyone collapse/vomit

worst part of commuting from drogheda is that if the train goes to dundalk you really have to stay awake, experience talking right here, dundalk train station at midnight= uncool

tywy

for anyone getting the 17, I recommend you cycle...I'm in Terenure, takes 15 mins in in the morning and about 25 mins home (tired and uphill).

I got the 17 for the first month of first year, had to get the 7.45am bus to get in for a 9am lecture, which is everyday for an engineer, such a biatch! I decided to cycle and now I leave around 8.40 or 8.45am. w00t! hurrah for cycling, cheap and efficient

GusherING

My family home is a ten minute walk from UCD which is dead handy. 3 minute drive also, but why would I bother cos the parking is **** and it just costs petrol.

BKtje

30mins cycle in 20min cycle back. Quicker than the 46a but a good 10-20mins depending on time of day.
The uphill cycle is a real bastid tho (well not that bad but im lazy)

Spectator#1

Garret wrote:

this semester i get the enterprise in the morning yes, but on the way back, i get the normal commuter trains as the timetables dont suit


it is a lovely train, if you can get a seat, it really isnt suited to standing what with its lack of anything to hold onto, but fortunately i'v memorized where the doors stop, if the train driver stops where he should, oh yeah im that cool:cool:, you also have to contend with the fact that it is on time about once a week

last semester it was pretty much the normal commuters, and I never saw anyone collapse/vomit

worst part of commuting from drogheda is that if the train goes to dundalk you really have to stay awake, experience talking right here, dundalk train station at midnight= uncool

It's the one's that leave drogheda about seven or half seven are the worst. I've seen fights, and arguments, and people fainting, and people vomiting, and god knows what else on those trains, the half eight especially!

I flipped out at a school kid once on a really crowded train because he kept pushing my mother in the back to show off to all his friends, it was really funny because when I calmed down, the train was really quiet and nobody spoke until he got out in Malahide!

And dundalk has never been kind to me. Ever.

griffdaddy

the 17 drives me absolutely mental, and pretty much everyone i know who gets it hates it as well, one of these days someones gonna shoot the bus up outta frustration!

Chakar

I'll put money on somebody flipping at the pupils with the green uniforms telling their stupid stories so loud that even I can hear it.

I always try to stay downstairs in the morning.I find it contributes greatly to my mood.

Pythia

Chakar wrote:

I'll put money on somebody flipping at the pupils with the green uniforms telling their stupid stories so loud that even I can hear it.
.

They're from Colaiste Iosagain.

Donald-Duck

Chakar wrote:

I'll put money on somebody flipping at the pupils with the green uniforms telling their stupid stories so loud that even I can hear it.

I always try to stay downstairs in the morning.I find it contributes greatly to my mood.

Sitting down stairs? Where do you get on? I get on at kimmage which I think is fairly close to the start of the route and its usually pretty full downstairs in the mornings then:( That said, I don't go in for 9am lectures anymore.

Speaking of the 17, was waiting an hour for one around 4:45-5:45 at belfield today

18AD

Praise be to the 17. I couldn't be arsed cycling. The 17 isn't THAT bad, even if it has it's noisy children, crazy people and bad service, it has a nice homely atmosphere that everyone knows each other if they get the 17. Although this has never been a conversation starter, I'm sure that somewhere, far away, it is.

I know I won't be in for 9 tomorrow and have come to enjoy it.

Isn't it so much sweeter when things go right with that bus?
I mean if it was always on time you'd just take it for granted...or maybe not.

Late night talkitiveness :rolleyes:

Jonny Arson

Everyone please never ever get an X bus in through town during rush hour. I kid you not it took 30 mins for my bus to get from Stephen's Green to Eden Quay this evening :eek:

I get the DART to Sydeny Parade which is usually grand, takes 35 mins or so but it's the 2/3/18 bus services that's the problem. There has been endless occasions where the bus will be behind the barriers when the DART pulls in. Loads of people who get off the DART use the 2/3 or 18 to get to Belfield. That's grand but do you think the bus drivers will wait at the bus stop for even one minute just after the barriers go up while people are getting off the train? No. It was a killer the other day seeing the bus drive off while I was exiting the station and then I had to wait a half hour for the next bus! Arrghh! :mad:

Chakar

Donald-Duck wrote:

Sitting down stairs? Where do you get on? I get on at kimmage which I think is fairly close to the start of the route and its usually pretty full downstairs in the mornings then:( That said, I don't go in for 9am lectures anymore.

Speaking of the 17, was waiting an hour for one around 4:45-5:45 at belfield today

Rathfarnham village actually.You're right it can be full but sometimes you can get lucky.

18AD

Chakar wrote:

Rathfarnham village actually.You're right it can be full but sometimes you can get lucky.

A Rathfarnham castle stop attendee?

Chakar

18AD wrote:

A Rathfarnham castle stop attendee?

Yeah thats right, its the nearest stop from my house which isn't very far away.

Were you curious or something?