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Commuting from Stepaside to City Center

  • 30-05-2005 9:50am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭


    Hello everyone, I was wondering if there was anyone out there who does the trek from stepaside or (nearby) into town every day as I am considering moving there but not sure of that journey. If there are those out there who do this commute i'd love to hear from you, any info on public transprt or new roads that would help or anything basically that might be of interest..... Also the Luas extension that has been approved, is this dus to go anywhere near stepaside?
    Thanks all!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 684 ✭✭✭JazzyJ


    Buses:
    118
    44/C

    The Luas extension will run close enough to the junction of Kilgobbin Road and Ballyogan Road.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,632 ✭✭✭✭okidoki987


    The Luas extension will run close enough to the junction of Kilgobbin Road and Ballyogan Road.

    That's still a huge walk from Stepaside Garda station assuming he will be somewhere near there, down the Kilgobbin road.

    Check the bus timetables, the last time I looked, the buses were VERY infrequent.

    Driving?
    Depending on the time you be leaving at, the traffic at Kilgobbin/Ballyogan road is a nightmare every day and it's getting worse with all the trucks coming up Murphystown Road and jamming the traffice before they get onto the Sandyford Hall Roundabout as it's too narrow for traffic to pass by them.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭trentv


    Thanks for your replies...
    So do either of you actually do this journey? Could you say how long it takes by bus to get down to the N11 from Stepaside? Or what this journey would take in a car during peak traffic? My girlfriend has to get to Vincents Hospital for 9 without a car and that is the journey that will probably end up making the decision... I'll be heading into ballsbridge but will be driving and wont really mind the traffic.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 441 ✭✭robfitz


    Stepaside to Vincents Hospital

    Stepaside to Kilcross (walk 2 km, 25-40 mins)
    Kilcross to Blackrock (bus 114, ~ 45 mins)
    Blackrock to Sydney Parade Station (dart, ~ 20 mins)
    Sydney Parade Station to Vincents (walk, 5-10 mins)

    Stepaside to Eglinton Road (bus 44/C, ~ 45 mins)
    Eglinton Road to Vincents Hospital (walk 2 km, 25-40 mins)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,144 ✭✭✭mollser


    Trent,

    Your best bet is:

    Cycle to the Luas, 10 mins
    Get Luas to Beechwood - 12 mins
    Walk to Ballsbridge - 15/20mins max (down Marlboro Road, through Herbert Pk)

    I live in sandyford and had to this for a while. Its easy as. :)

    don't worry about the buses, they are non existant as far as i'm concerned

    One wise word though, all those new apartment schemes in Stepaside, Aikins Village, Bellarmine, Park View and the Rectory are never going to be convenient to the Luas, no matter what the lifestyle brochures say.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 756 ✭✭✭Zaph0d


    Try a folding bike or, if you are wealthy/lazy, get a folding electric bike with lithium-ion battery
    http://www.electricbikesdirect.co.uk/productdetail.asp?category=1&id=88


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 109 ✭✭Beats


    Traffic just seems to be ever increasing in the Kilternan,Stepaside, Sandyford area. As is typical of sprawling Dublin, developments in the area are being built without an improvement in public transport. We all end up being dependent on the car resulting in futher traffic bottlenecks. It makes no sense.

    I have emailed Dublin Bus on a number of occasions. In the local magazine Panorama, there were reports that the 46B which runs from city centre along stillorgan road to Sandyford Industrial Estate will be extended to Stepaside. This was due to happen last October. I received following reply in March.

    I regret to inform you that we have been unable to implement this new
    route.The proposals are still in the pipeline but unfortunately I do not have
    a date of implementation.

    John Graham
    Administration Officer
    Public Affairs Office
    ph 7033160
    John.Graham@dublinbus.ie

    ( Please email him to complain or comment on services ) :(

    Over the Xmas period they extended the 44N to run via Stepaside, but didn't publicise the service. I only found out one evening when the driver asked where I was going.

    It appears that Dublin Bus are taking a wait and see approach. Once they believe services are viable, more regular services will be provided. The completion of M50 may alleviate some of the problems at Sandyford interchange and improve present traffic problems.

    The extension of Luas to Cherrywood is sadly a number of years away.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Where in Stepaside, where in city center?

    How about car -> DART -> city?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 64 ✭✭trentv


    I have a car, and i dont mind sitting in traffic if i have to, so my commute wont be an issue, but its my girlfriend who doesn't drive, and her commute to vincents hospital that I need to try and work out. From the new development Belarmine in Stepaside, to Vincents hospital without a car. From what i am learning it is becoming less feasible I think, either you need a car or perhaps a helicopter might be the way out.....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 254 ✭✭sandyg


    When im driving to work (from Enniskerry) i leave at 7.30 (when schools are open) get to ballsbridge about 8.15. U could drive to ballsbridge and leave ur girlfriend to the bus stop at Jurys and she could hop on any bus that is passing i.e. 45, 84, 7 63... and do the same in the evening. It is less than a 10 min journey on the bus to vincents from there.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    http://www.dublinbus.ie/your_journey/tt/117.html
    http://www.dublinbus.ie/your_journey/tt/118.html

    These actually serve Belarmine and would drop her to Nutley Avenue (RTÉ) and you to Donnybrook.

    You could drive to Goatstown via ?????new Road and down to the N11.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,580 ✭✭✭✭Victor




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