Last Luas - Friday night

doughef

Hi

For any of you that get the Luas from St Stephens green, you may know that the last one is scheduled to leave on a Friday / Saturday night at 12.30 but normally you can hang on until about 12.45 and get the one that has just come in from Sandyford

I missed the last one Friday night.. (doors flippin' closed just as I got to it :mad: ) so I decided to hang around and wait for the one coming from Sandyford.

So there we were, a large amount of people waiting.. Luas pulls in.. people get off but they wouldnt let anyone on to it.. ??

I tried to get on and the security said we werent allowed and it left... WITH NOBODY ON BOARD???

People were beginning to freak out and in fairness the security and driver were cool but I cant understand why they wouldnt let anyone on and why it made the return journey empty.

I love the Luas, use it everyday but this and the friggin taxi I had to get as a result really pi**ed me off

KC61

The last tram advertised is 00:30.

If you get on a later tram that arrives in town it is totally at the driver's discretion, but he should not officially be letting you on board.

sdanseo

KC61 wrote: »

The last tram advertised is 00:30.

If you get on a later tram that arrives in town it is totally at the driver's discretion, but he should not officially be letting you on board.

Correct.

That doesn't excuse the fact that there should be trams running until at least 3am on Friday and Saturday, albeit if only two or three in that space of time. Thousands of customers to be had for the sake of paying maybe ten staff. I'm stumped as to why they don't tbh.

antoinolachtnai

What sense does it make to run a Luas train empty? There is a cost being incurred in terms of electricity and staffing to bring this tram back to base, and if it can be partly compensated by picking up passengers, surely it makes sense to do that?

soden12

typical Public Sector.

Oh hang on it's not - it's the PRIVATE SECTOR which has made this choice...

Cookie_Monster

antoinolachtnai wrote: »

What sense does it make to run a Luas train empty? There is a cost being incurred in terms of electricity and staffing to bring this tram back to base, and if it can be partly compensated by picking up passengers, surely it makes sense to do that?

but it will take a good bit longer to run back as a customer carrying service, meaning more cost as employees need to be paid longer

antoinolachtnai

Well, it might take 12 min longer but that would be about it. Assuming 5 extra staff, that would be one hour of employee time and with an overtime rate of 20 euros/hour you would only need 10 or 12 passengers to justify it.

Maybe I am missing something.

Cookie_Monster

antoinolachtnai wrote: »

Well, it might take 12 min longer but that would be about it. Assuming 5 extra staff, that would be one hour of employee time and with an overtime rate of 20 euros/hour you would only need 10 or 12 passengers to justify it.

Maybe I am missing something.

you cannot just pay them an extra 12 mins each though and would likely have to pay the full hour, or at least half hour.
same reasons all of DB final service run back tot he depot empty...

antoinolachtnai

Their shifts would have to be timed very exactly for it to make a difference.

Late db buses very often do carry passengers to or near to the depot.