Luas park & ride

Y.Kendellen

I'm wondering if anybody knows how busy the car parks are on the Luas red line, the red cow or Cheeverstown. If I was looking to park around 10 am week days, would that be possible or would the car parks be full by then??? Really don't want to drive into the city centre

Maruney

Hi,

Ive been using Cheeverstown P&R for nearly 2 months now, Im usually parking there at 7.15am and there's around 4 cars there. I return at 6pm and the most cars Ive seen is 12 (there is over 100 spaces)

Its about 3km from the N7, very easy to get to.

The cost of parking has halved to 2euro for 24hrs also. No complaints here about Cheeverstown P&R

AlekSmart

Maruney wrote: »

Hi,

Ive been using Cheeverstown P&R for nearly 2 months now, Im usually parking there at 7.15am and there's around 4 cars there. I return at 6pm and the most cars Ive seen is 12 (there is over 100 spaces)

Its about 3km from the N7, very easy to get to.

The cost of parking has halved to 2euro for 24hrs also. No complaints here about Cheeverstown P&R

A dozen spaces out of 100 utilized...even with a €2 minimal charge....what else can be done to successfully market the P & R Concept ?

L1011

Perceived security may be a risk there. It's very open and isolated

Y.Kendellen

Tks so much for the info, I might look into it a bit more, it would be 10 or 11pm when I would be returning to collect my car, not keen on the sounds of it being isolated.

grimbergen

AlekSmart wrote: »

A dozen spaces out of 100 utilized...even with a €2 minimal charge....what else can be done to successfully market the P & R Concept ?

To be fair he arrives at 7.15am and leaves after 6pm. Even the busiest of P&R sites are slackish at those times. I use Stillorgan P&R at those times and it's quiet until well after 8.00am but fills up fairly quickly then

L1011

Used to drive past it at all hours of the day in my old job and it was rarely close to full.

SteM

I think you can park for free underground in the Citywest shopping centre and get the Luas from Fortunestown too? It's not marked on the Luas website but I'm sure I've seen the signs up in the car park in Citywest shopping centre.

Macy0161

AlekSmart wrote: »

A dozen spaces out of 100 utilized...even with a €2 minimal charge....what else can be done to successfully market the P & R Concept ?

Speaking for the Green Line, that would be an option for me in theory, they're in the wrong place. Coming up from Wicklow, Carrickmines is the wrong side of the M50/M11 merge tailback in the evening. And it'd be nuts to go further and tie yourself up in the Sandyford/ Leopardstown traffic on top of that.

Somewhere around Cherrywood would be better and it would, or at least could, give the option of linking in with the 145 or the proposed Rapid Bus (if they weren't proposing to terminate it at just UCD), and also bike routes into the city. I'd hope that Park and Ride facilities are still part of any Luas extension - they were talked about before around Fassaroe.

What is the story with the Red Cow - does that get full on a normal working day?