Naas Chat Thread

Supertoucher wrote: »

I can understand members of the public not understanding this, but during recent elections at least two electoral candidates were campaigning claiming to propose running the luas down to Blessington or Naas.


As WhatsGoingOn2 said, it's reasonably clear that the luas is light rail designed for urban areas with only a few mins between stops in reasonably densely populated areas. Imagine being on the luas as it went down the N7 or N81 stretch for 20+ mins.


For me that ruled out my vote immediately if a electoral candidate doesn't have the slightest clue of feasibility for transport concerns.


A proper railway is the only feasible way to run this type of service to either of those locations.

As I keep saying, they should build a DART station with a park and ride capable of holding thousands of vehicles across from Odeon Naas in that abandoned site. Perfectly accessible for all Kill-Naas-Sallins-Johnstown, and would also work for those even further out in Newbridge or whatever. They could also have a lot of different DUBLIN BUS services from this park and ride to different areas of the city, and even different areas of North Kildare. Example, for someone who works in Intel or attends Maynooth and lives in Monread or Kill.

As it stands almost all journeys are conducted using a car in Naas. There are two bus services, 126 and 139, which are ridiculously overpriced and don’t connect with any other transport system.

I don’t care if there’s a feeder bus or a random JJ kavanagh coach going god knows where with a piece of paper on the front of it. A somewhat competent transport system requires buses to have a common livery, common fare, a number, integration with other transport services, and actual bus stops. The 139 doesn’t even have bus stops, doesn’t have LEAP 90 discount, fare capping, isn’t included on the rambler ticket, and still accepts cash. Nobody should find this acceptable when places like Maynooth, Celbridge, Greystones, Blessington, etc etc etc don’t have to deal with these problems.

What a complete fragmented mess Naas is. Anyone who cares for their children in the area (when they go to college) should be campaigning to local TD’s who have done absolutely nothing, Kildare county council, and the NTA. There is huge demand for it, but nobody seems to do anything about it. Demand for buses isn’t just for no reason lower in Naas, it’s hindered because of lack of services, fare expense and complexity, lack of integration, lack of bus stops (you could drive for ten minutes in naas without seeing one), and fragmentation of the system (politicians think JJ kavanagh bus is a success for the area, rather than proper public transport like Dublin bus).

yermandan wrote: »

Yeah I think so! My Dad also mentioned a 3 car pile up earlier this afternoon but that should be well cleared now

Traffic has been diabolical in Naas all day, even at 13:00. Took me longer to get from Naas town to Monread today than from UCD to Naas.

yermandan wrote: »

That must've been the 3 car pile-up so. The water main burst at 10am so probably affected it too

Left the town at around 16:00, got to Tesco extra at around 17:15 via the Sallins road. Worst traffic I’ve seen since the M7 works.

just on the transport and people talking about the feeder bus. the timetable is on irish rail website. if you look at the pdf for sallins station to dublin timetables it shows the feeder. i wouldnt trust it to go to the station. but its very handy when you get off a train and its just waiting there to bring you into central naas. the guys driving it are always very pleasant and it will drop you exactly where you want to if its on the route.

i love the train. even if its busy, its still only 20-30min sallins to heuston. not exactly central dublin, but its a nice enough walk beside the luas tracks along the museum and the north side (benburb street). which is about another 20 minutes. But at least you will be getting close to the 10,000 steps a day with that walk.

And to mention its usually on time. ive lived in london and there are far more problems with uk trains being late due to signaling failures.

So big up the train.

Feel free to disagree with me, but if you are going to be negative, please offer something positive as well. tks

Duke of Url wrote: »

Seen that today although I didn’t know if she’s was from Naas or not.

Not verified, but I was told she was from Sallins

RIP

Some people need to be told it is a virus not a famine.

Hi Folks

Potentially about to buy a house in the monread area ( am I mad with the current covid situation?)

I’ve been targeting the monread area since my first viewing in October of last year as I immediately fell in love with the place.

Anyway, just wanted to check to see does anyone know of any pyrite issues in any of the estates around monread? Or perhaps even anyone had a test done and got positive news?

Thanks a mill in advance