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Blanchardstown to Swords Business Campus?

  • 21-04-2011 8:36pm
    #1
    c0rn3y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 286 ✭✭


    Hi everyone,

    I need to get to Swords Business Campus from Blanchardstown tomorrow for a job interview and need to be there for 11am. I found that I can take Urbus there but if I do get the job it will cost a fortune to the Urbus everyday as its 5.50€ one way, can get 40€ a week tickets as well but that is still a lot of money if you count that it would be 160€ month just commuting. And Urbus takes 70min to get there from Blanch shopping centre.

    Anybody have any ideas? I think I would have to get my self a car or something like that to get there if I start working there.

    Any good ideas would be welcome.

    Thanks,
    /c0rn


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  • #2
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,137 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Where in Blanchardstown? If you're anywhere near Castleknock train station you could get a train to Drumcondra and a 33 (drops on the bypass behind SBC, there's a gate in at the old Sitel/Amdahl building) or a 41C (drops the other side of the campus)*.

    Would let you get a monthly bus/rail ticket which is "only" €123. Might not be any quicker, but when I was doing it the Port Tunnel works were still screwing up traffic at Whitehall.



    *note that my Dublin Bus route knowledge of Swords pre-dates Network Direct so they could have changed the routes or the numbers, etc...


  • #3
    thomasj
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,944 ✭✭✭thomasj


    I hate to say it, but i cant see you bettering that 70 minutes.

    One of the options is the 17a. You can get that to the malahide road and switch to the 43 or im not sure but maybe you can get one of the 41s to there from swords road but again its going to be longer than 70 minutes because of the time the 17a takes the going from one bus to another etc.

    Possibly train to drumcondra and one of the 41s to the business campus but again time switching between the two.

    The problem is the benefit of urbus is that you dont have to take more than 1 bus etc but the only other options other than urbus is the 17a or train and then a connecting bus to swords and its the connecting bus to swords that could screw you over timewise


  • #4
    c0rn3y
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 286 ✭✭c0rn3y


    Hi again and thanks for fast answers,

    I live right next to Clonsilla trainstaion (couple min walk away) and I didn't even think about taking the train to be honest.

    I was thinking that I would have to take my bicycle down to Blanch shopping centre and then take Urbus from there.

    Going to be hard to sort this out I think.

    Got to take a thinker about this.

    /c0rn


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