New Master Plan for Cherrywood

It gets bad long before that. First you have the occasional "where is my driver" delay at Sandyford and then the incredibly slow crawl up the ramp and over the bridge to get to Central Park. Then it whizzes along for a bit before reaching Glencairn and all is lost after that. To be fair, the last part (Ballyogan Wood to Cherrywood) was very rural and scenic the last time I was on it, kind of like a drive-through retreat.

I remember taking the Luas into town when it first started.

Was laughing to myself as it has to stop at traffic lights.

Why do they not have some override signal for the tram to go through?

Agree that the journey to/from Cherrywood makes it unattractive,

unless one is on the lump, getting apartment for 20 EUR per week.

Cherrywood is just over 2 miles from Bray. To put that in perspective, its also about 2 miles from Cornelscourt.

The idea of Cherrywood being in Dublin on the Stillorgan Dual carriageway and near town is admirable myth making.

The tram line south of Sandyford was not planned to be upgraded to Metro.

Again people here have to remember that it is a tram line (not a metro) that takes a major deviation westward from the original railway line to serve the offices at Central Park and all the housing developments around Ballyogan Road.

It is not grade segregated along Ballyogan Road and that inevitably means that is isn’t going to be high speed.

What it can do is move large numbers of people and that is what it was designed to do.

Whoever built Tullyvale back in the day. Although that was when Maynooth and Clane were considered acceptable commutes to the city. I guess we're back there again now.

It’s relative closer to town. About a 30 minute cycle.

is it really 50 mins to SSG? you would definitely cycle it faster, I'd imagine the 145 bus is quicker too.

It’s 40 minutes to St Stephen’s Green from Brides Glen at 13:00.

Here are the running times per the TFI Journey Planner.

At this time of day the 145 is scheduled to take 40 minutes to Dawson St from the stop at the Wyattville Road / N11 junction.

As above it’s 40 minutes.

Again, LUAS was never designed to be high speed rail, and certainly not south of Sandyford where it crosses multiple roads at grade, deviating from the old line to serve all of the housing developments along Ballyogan Road. Are you suggesting they shouldn’t be served by the trams?

Tullyvale, a sad decrepit depressing place if ever I saw one.

But nobody is selling it as being close to town. The marketing material advertise it as being the place where Mountains meet the Sea, and being "well connected". It is what it is, a Town that's 15k from O'Connell Bridge. Same distance as Lucan or Swords, but with the Luas already built.

It' just simply down to poor planning, if they built this as a full metro/DART from the beginning then we wouldn't be having this discussion. I imagine a Metro to O'Connell Bridge from Cherrywood would have been been roughly 35 minutes or thereabouts. Currently it takes long to get to O'Connell Bridge from Cherrywood than it does from Bray.

Of course this is all in hindsight and it'll never happen now so a overcapacity and slow LUAS will have to suffice. Which would be OK as other mentioned it was never meant to be a heavy rail and it does connect communities. However it is not an efficient way of getting into the city centre and it's clear there never will be one from Cherrywood. Just have to get used to Dublin being a woeful mishmash of piecemeal infrastructure projects.

Whoever the halfwit estate agents were that were trying to sell me one about 10 years ago.

Cherrywood is 4+ miles to Bray.

There are 20 stops en route. The tram isn’t travelling non-stop.

You are fixated on it as if is supposed to be high speed rail, when in fact it’s a tram that is serving local communities and which isn’t grade separated.