Galway to Dublin Airport by bus - how big are the delays?

rocky

Anyone know? Citylink don't answer the phones.

paconnors

Check the airline your flying with make sure its flying first Dublin Airport is like a Luanatic's Assylum. so check first. check there website

rocky

I will, by the time I'll know if it's cancelled or not I should be on my way to Dublin anyway if I want to make it...

Gobus don't answer phones either, what the hell is happening?

inisboffin

I missed my gobus. Am on a Citylink at the mo. Good driver and grand time wise until Lucan. Currently at Heuston and 35 mins behind schedule. Quays seem to be gridlocked..

rocky

Did you get the direct bus?

Storm 10

Where are you flying to, Aer Lingus have now cancelled all flights out of Dublin due snow,
Check the departues board at Dublin here most are cancelled

Link: http://flights.dublinairport.com/departures.asp

rocky

Flying to Paris in the morning (6:35), have booked the 1:15 citylink but that looks too close for comfort now - hope I'll know by then if it's cancelled or not, although I'm thinking about getting the 20:45 GoBus...

Snow should die down overnight, so the runways *should* be functional in the morning

Edgedinblue

Are all the direct buses from galway into eden quay delayed by half an hour?

soundbyte

rocky wrote: »

Flying to Paris in the morning (6:35), have booked the 1:15 citylink but that looks too close for comfort now - hope I'll know by then if it's cancelled or not, although I'm thinking about getting the 20:45 GoBus...

The 20.45 will be a nightmare journey judging by what happened last night in Dublin (not on a bus, just in general). Cars abandoned on M50, and N11 was a carpark. Disaster stories of people taking 9 hours to do a 30 minute drive. It seemed to get better around midnight.

I'd say you could be better off on a later one, but go before midnight to be safe.

Keep an eye on the traffic cameras here:
http://www.dublincity.ie/dublintraffic/

soundbyte

Edgedinblue wrote: »

Are all the direct buses from galway into eden quay delayed by half an hour?

At least. It's only going to get a hell of a lot worse.

Cue John Kilraine on Six-One News standing on an overpass looking down on a scene from Die Hard 2

rocky

soundbyte wrote: »

The 20.45 will be a nightmare journey judging by what happened last night. Cars abandoned on M50, and N11 was a carpark. Disaster stories of people taking 9 hours to do a 30 minute drive. It seemed to get better around midnight.

I'd say you could be better off on a later one, but go before midnight to be safe.

Keep an eye on the traffic cameras here:
http://www.dublincity.ie/dublintraffic/

There is only one other bus I could take, a citylink direct at 0:15, can't be that much better? I don't mind being in the bus for a while, as long as I'm not out in the cold...

soundbyte

rocky wrote: »

There is only one other bus I could take, a citylink direct at 0:15, can't be that much better? I don't mind being in the bus for a while, as long as I'm not out in the cold...

Ah you'll get to Lucan handy enough, you'll just get stuck for ages then on the M50 onwards. Pain in the hole. But you'd probable be safer to go early.

Was listening to 98FM last night and felt so sorry for the people texting in ... running out of petrol, can't switch off engines because of cold. One guy ended up on a four hour walk home after abandoning his car.

Noah was heading down to build the fecking Ark, but he was at a work do in O'Neills.

rocky

think I'll go on the 0:15 after all

mikemac

rocky wrote: »

think I'll go on the 0:15 after all

Yes, seems to be the best option

fmul9798

Outbound to west and inbound to city centre has been at a standstill for last couple of hours. Conditions are now getting worse as it is sleet/rain after an entire day of snow.

rocky

pfft airport closed until 8a.m. tomorrow, so my flight would be canceled, although it doesn't say so on the airport site or the ryanair site... just yet.

I guess I'll stick around for a few days...

barryd09

any word on the go bus and citylink buses to dublin airport?
going tomorrow early and want to know if i need to go that bit earlier to avoid missing a flight.

thanks