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Easiest bus route from City Centre to Fas on Jamestown Road, Finglas.

  • 26-08-2009 09:23PM
    #1
    Yunalesca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭


    Hey there! Unsurprisingly, I'm from the country! Basically I'm going for an interview at the Fas on Jamestown Road, and I need to know the easiest and quickest bus route there from the city centre.

    Someone suggested the 140 to me, but I checked the stops online and there doesn't seem to be a stop near by the fas centre. Am I wrong? If anyone could help, I'd be much obliged! :3 thanks!!
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  • #2
    January
    Closed Accounts Posts: 23,862 ✭✭✭✭January


    Yep you are! The bus will turn left just before FAS, get off at the next stop and walk back... I'm crap at posting google maps... but at the roundabout at Balbutcher Ln and Jamestown Road, the bus stops just after it turns left.

    http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=106577527796511894177.0004721181e5b23069439&t=h&z=18

    Em... hope that map helps... a bit... FAS is marked on the map... just get off before or after the roundabout.

    Sorry if I confused you!


  • #3
    Yunalesca
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 112 ✭✭Yunalesca


    thanks for the help!! :D I'm sure I'll find my way now! :3 If not at least I'll get some excercise :c


  • #4
    sebphoto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 559 ✭✭✭sebphoto


    I'm wondering does anyone know how long it takes to get to Poppintree Pk, Jamestown Road from Westmoreland street by bus 140 on the morning (9am)?


  • #5
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,166 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    About 30-35 minutes.


  • #6
    sebphoto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 559 ✭✭✭sebphoto


    lxflyer wrote: »
    About 30-35 minutes.

    thanks!


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  • #7
    HansHolzel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 996 ✭✭✭HansHolzel


    FÁS on Jamestown Road?

    "Lasciate ogni speranza, voi ch'entrate"

    Dante, Inferno


  • #8
    sebphoto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 559 ✭✭✭sebphoto


    HansHolzel why Latin?
    HansHolzel wrote: »
    FÁS on Jamestown Road?

    Yep.


  • #9
    HansHolzel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 996 ✭✭✭HansHolzel


    It's Italian. It means "Abandon all hope ye who enter" and it's the sign over the gates of Hell in Dante's Inferno.

    To use another language to reinforce the point, you might call that place Stalag FÁS.

    e.g. when I was there, the toilets were segregated, like in the old South Africa. The nice clean ones near the canteen were off-limits to trainees and staff would actually order trainees out if they found them there.


  • #10
    sebphoto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 559 ✭✭✭sebphoto


    HansHolzel Now I'm not sure what to expect there as I'll be guest speaker. They do have some facility where I could get coffee? :)

    /me Sorry for offtopic.


  • #11
    HansHolzel
    Closed Accounts Posts: 996 ✭✭✭HansHolzel


    sebphoto wrote: »
    HansHolzel Now I'm not sure what to expect there as I'll be guest speaker. They do have some facility where I could get coffee? :)

    /me Sorry for offtopic.

    Coffee shouldn't be a problem in the FÁS canteen but I'd give the deep-fried Mars bars a miss, if they're still on the menu.


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  • #12
    chopper6
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,214 ✭✭✭chopper6


    lxflyer wrote: »
    About 30-35 minutes.

    Thats about right but i'd add another 10 minutes or so to allow for bad traffic at Phibsboro,the 140 crawls between Broadstone and glasnevin cemetary sometimes.


  • #13
    dfx-
    Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 15,787 Mod ✭✭✭✭dfx-


    lxflyer wrote: »
    About 30-35 minutes.

    Outbound in the morning? I wouldn't have guessed that.:eek:


  • #14
    sebphoto
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 559 ✭✭✭sebphoto


    dfx- wrote: »
    Outbound in the morning? I wouldn't have guessed that.:eek:

    What's your suggestion?


  • #15
    LXFlyer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 19,166 ✭✭✭✭LXFlyer


    dfx- wrote: »
    Outbound in the morning? I wouldn't have guessed that.:eek:

    I didn't guess it.

    I looked at the full stop-by-stop 140 timetable on the NTA Journey Planner. It gives a journey time of 25 minutes from Westmoreland Street. I added in a little extra to that in case of delays.


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