Commuting Navan to Sandyford

Moanin

Anybody know the best route from Navan to Sandyford.I maybe changing jobs.Don't fancy the M50 to be honest. Have to be there for 8 in the morning

loyatemu

that's too bad because the M50 is almost certainly the best route

Moanin

Well if I have to use it I will, but what's traffic like heading south coming off the n3 towards the toll bridge at 7.15am?

Benster

I hope that job is a well-paid one, because I don't envy you having to go all the way there and back every day.

I used to work in Sandyford until early this year and I commuted from Coolock. I had to really watch my arrival and leaving times as unless you travel well outside the peak, you're going to be in a world of hurt.

To be honest, your best bet really is the M50, p.i.t.a. though it is. Just make sure you get out of Sandyford before 4:00-4:30 otherwise you'll be really stuck. It really does get that clogged every day. This is all assuming you are working in the industrial estate or environs.

B.

Bluetonic

Moanin wrote:

Well if I have to use it I will, but what's traffic like heading south coming off the n3 towards the toll bridge at 7.15am?

Take a morning off to do a trial run.... mind you wait until Spetember... until the little lovable kiddies are back to school.

is_that_so

M3/M50 and good luck. Really no other solution apart from moving to Dublin

Gonzo

to commute from navan to arrive at Sandyford for 8am you will have to be up by 5am (no joking) and be leaving by 5.45 or even before that. I spent almost a year commuting from Dunshaughlin to Loughlinstown (similar route) and by 6.30am the traffic on the N3 south of Dunshaughlin was already really bad towards the Fairyhouse junction and was often stuck there for 15 minutes before we got moving again, I was lucky to get out to Loughlinstown for 8.30am each morning. I was busing it tho but with a car I cant imagine it being much better especially when you can't use bus lanes to espace the traffic jams near blanchardstown. After a few months I become completely run down and very sick and about 2 months later the same thing happaned again. I totally suggest if your going to be working in Sandyford is to move out of Navan and near Sandyford to save your sanity.

Victor

Move home or move job. Its mad otherwise.

SeanW

You must be a glutton for punishment

Victor

You could get Bus Éireann route 109 into the city centre and then a bus out.

Or drive to Drogheda and get a train to Blackrock / Dún Laoghaire and then a bus.

SeanW

Or a bus to the City Centre and then Luas to Sandyford?

hawkmoon269

SeanW's suggestion is probably the best one.

Alternatively get yourself a map and plot a route using the back roads.

I'm not saying this would be any faster than N3/M50 or even possible but might be worth looking at.

dbnavan

have you thought of investing in a helicopter, LOL, no seriously I did Navan to palmerstown for about 3 weeks before moving to dublin thought i'd die, public transport is so draining even though u only sit there, say good bye to family or social life with that commute!
I am only in Blanch now and thats enough! Move house or job to keep ur health and sanity, no joke.

Thomond Pk

A campaigner against the proposed route of the new M3 motorway near the Hill of Tara in Co Meath has presented an alternative route for the road, again urging that it be re-routed to avoid the historic site.


In a briefing on his legal action against the Government, lawyer Vincent Salafia claimed that 70 per cent of more than 1,000 respondents in a recent survey by research group RED C favoured a different route for the M3, which will run from Clonee to Kells, bypassing Dunshaughlin and Navan.

The campaigner said he had separated himself from the Tarawatch protest group because he did not want them exposed to liability in the event that he loses his High Court action against the route. He said he was personally exposed financially if he loses the forthcoming case.

Campaigners and their advisors are awaiting judgment from the Supreme Court in a case related to the controversy over the Carrickmines Castle site in Dublin. The outcome may have an effect on their legal argument in the Tara case, which centres on technical points in legislation under which the Minister for the Environment consented to the route.

Mr Salafia expressed concern about the fact that no public hearing on tolling had yet been heard, even though it has been widely reported that the Eurolink consortium will toll the route and also receive a State subsidy.

Mr Salafia today presented what he said was a professionally designed and "legally acceptable" engineering solution which would protect the Hill of Tara. The alternative route is up to 2km shorter between Navan and Dunshaughlin and brings the M3 nearer to Trim, which would make sense he said.

"The NRA and the Government are saying 'you must allow us to build this motorway through Tara or you must sit in traffic jams; it's the only solution'. You, the motorist, and the citizen, were promised upgrades and by-passes years ago, do not allow them to foist a destructive, wasteful and unsustainable - but highly lucrative - motorway as a bullying tactic now," he said.

"The only people who will benefit from the construction of the M3 are the toll road operators and property speculators. The same company who operate the M50 toll (NTR) have been selected as the preferred bidder, they will operate it and profit from it in exactly the same way. The prospect of large retail and commercial developments at junctions along the route is a prime motivation behind large land transfers in the Meath area."

The NRA insists that the route chosen makes most sense economically and that it will run further from the Hill of Tara than the existing N3. However, Mr Salafia said Tara had to be considered a complex and that it wasn't confined to the hill itself. He wants the entire complex declared a World Heritage Site.

Green Party TD Ciaran Cuffe said he would like to see the matter brought back before the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Environment, which is chaired by the Fianna F il TD Sean Haughey.

Mr Haughey has previously said that plans to run the route through the Tara area were "bordering on vandalism" against one of the most important historic sites in the country.

Mr Cuffe said today: "It's about time he put his money where his mouth is and moved it on."

The Green Party TD also said he believed there was public concern about some of the investigation methods currently being used on sites around Tara. Diggers are in operation on a number of the sites and some environmentalists claim they may cause irreparable damage to terrain or artifacts of archeological and historical significance.

Sinn F in TD Aongus Snodaigh said his party favoured rerouting the road alongside the development of public transport alternatives such as a rail line to Navan.

"My main point is the protection of our natural environment and also our archeological and historical heritage. Anyone who has any understanding of history will understand that the outlying area is often more important than the site itself. If you start to destroy the landscape you lose the sense of what was there." Ends

EIS Kennastown >>>>> It needs a judicial review

LegacyUser

Buy a motorbike. Sorted.

skywalker_208

that really is a horrible commute..

best suggestion ive seen here is bus to Dublin then Luas out.. Bear in mind though that the earliest bus from Navan leaves at 6.05am.. gets into city center at about 7.15 - 7.30..

anyone know how long it takes to get to Sandyford on the Luas?

It is true that you will have to get up around 5 im afraid...

Moanin

The bus is totally out.I drive so for me its okay to get to Finglas west by cappagh hospital (I use the back roads from navan to here).just wondering if it would be quicker to go through the city and bypass the carpark on the m50?