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Aircoach inside Dublin airport

  • 11-03-2012 06:24PM
    #1
    markpb
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,414 ✭✭✭


    Do any of the C&T intelligentsia know why Aircoach buses start at T1, do a loop of the airport, collect at T2 and then do another loop of the airport before leaving? It would seem shorter and simpler to start at T2, collect at T1 and then exit?


Comments

  • #2
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,615 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    It's not possible to drive from the Arrivals road at T2 to T1 - the only connection is from the departures road.


  • #3
    jack presley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 13,687 ✭✭✭✭jack presley


    lxflyer wrote: »
    It's not possible to drive from the Arrivals road at T2 to T1 - the only connection is from the departures road.

    Is that right? What genius designed that then?


  • #4
    Irish Steve
    Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators Posts: 6,524 Mod ✭✭✭✭Irish Steve


    The same g****ites that designed an airport with poor facilites for dropping off passengers, and zero facilities for collecting them. 2 dimensional restricted unimaginative thinking that has the busiest pedestrian crossing in the place in the middle of the busiest and most dangerous section of road in the place.

    T 2 is even worse, if you make the mistake of thinking that the arrivals road for T2 allows you to collect someone, think again, the ONLY place it goes to is the car park, and there's no way out of that if you don't want to park.

    So much of the design and operation of Dublin airport is unimaginative, inappropriate and badly managed and operated.

    The hassles involved in collecting elderly parents that are mobile but don't cope well with walking long distances is only dire, especially if you don't have a spare €3 for the joke of a car park that's never got any space closer than the second floor of the multi car park section, which is almost as bad as walking back out to the end of Pier D.

    There's NOWHERE for aircoach to actually wait at T2, the concept appears tp be very much based on the now not happening Metro, Any other form of transport is not welcome, and certainly not facilitated in any resonable manner.

    Shore, if it was easy, everybody would be doin it.😁



  • #5
    ballooba
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,315 ✭✭✭ballooba


    Would it help though? The Aircoach drivers seem to take a break at the airport. They drop off at T2, then T1, then break, then pickup at T1, then T2 then onto their route. The only alternative would be to operate in a continuous loop (drop-off and pickup at T2 at the same time).


  • #6
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,615 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    Ideally the set up would be:
    Set down at T2
    Set down at T1
    Proceed to holding area
    Pick up at T2
    Pick up at T1

    But because there is no link between the arrivals roads, both Aircoach and Dublin Bus 747 both have to loop around from T1 arrivals to T2 arrivals on their return to the city.


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