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Heuston Station

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    #62
    brianc89
    Registered Users Posts: 910 ✭✭✭brianc89


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120882881#Comment_120882881

    Clondalkin Foothill would be more likely, I would wager. The plans for Metro West included a stop at Foothill (Cork line) and Porterstown (Sligo line).

    I fully expect Metro West will pop it's head up again within 5years. The success of orbital routes in Bus Connects (N4, W4 "still to be determined", etc.) will likely drive demand for orbital tram / metro lines. Tallaght and Blanch are two huge population centres...

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    #63
    Disco24
    Registered Users Posts: 19 ✭Disco24


    Yes that would be a game changer and perfect hub. Access to West and North Dublin incld big one of airport whilst avoiding city centre.



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    #64
    cgcsb
    Registered Users Posts: 9,272 ✭✭✭cgcsb


    Even if we could have a bus and ped bridge somewhere west of the M50. Lots of people would love to be able to go from clondalkin to blanch without having to get in a car and drive across the m50. You'd be faster walking anyway and the option just doesn't exist



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    #65
    Pete_Cavan
    Registered Users Posts: 6,703 ✭✭✭Pete_Cavan


    Yeah, Metro West is dead and isn't coming back, at least not for several decades. Most of the benefits from it can be achieved by buses at a fraction of the cost. You could also have diverse routes passing over the bridge with buses (e.g. inbound buses along the N4 turning north and heading across the bridge to serve the Blanchardstown/Ballcoolin area).

    A public/active transport bridge west of the Liffey along with some targeted road upgrades would do the job. Articulated buses to speed up boarding/alighting and off-board ticketing and you'd have an excellent service.



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    #66
    brianc89
    Registered Users Posts: 910 ✭✭✭brianc89


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120888015#Comment_120888015

    I wouldn't rule out Metro West making a comeback sooner. It passes through some of the largest towns in Ireland and would cross multiple high capacity lines - Red Luas, Dart SW, Lucan Luas(?), Dart West, Finglas Luas(?) and Metro North.

    The route was mostly through green fields and above ground, making it significantly cheaper than underground Metro lines directly into the city.

    All pie in the sky for now anyways.



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    #67
    bobbyss
    Registered Users Posts: 5,190 ✭✭✭bobbyss


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2057977377/heuston-station

    Recently new toilets have been put in and they are quite clean and well maintained and policed. I was in a restaurant thee (I forget the name but it was the one on the left as you enter from the Luas side). I was disappointed with the number of bloody pigeons in there. They even have a kind of lowered entrance to minimize their flight yet that's not a bother to them. One darted by my head like a plane as I entered.



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    #68
    p_haugh
    Registered Users Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭p_haugh


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121006011#Comment_121006011

    If only they gave the toilets in Connolly the same treatment!



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    #69
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,046 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Wouldn't you think something like a bead/chain curtain would keep the pigeons out? I suppose it might be considered a choking risk for children, but even one half way down would help.



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    #70
    lordleitrim
    Registered Users Posts: 573 ✭✭✭lordleitrim


    Pret A Manger have opened in Heuston now next to Brambles. With Insomnia, Butlers, the also recently opened Caffè Nero and the various other places there that offer coffee, there's quite the competition for caffeine on offer!



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    #71
    Polar101
    Registered Users Posts: 3,751 ✭✭✭Polar101


    I needed to buy a new Leap card - but buying one at Heuston station wasn't too easy.

    Ticket maschine 1 - "Buy leap card" - nothing happened when I clicked on that

    Ticket maschine 2 - "Buy leap card" - nothing happened when I clicked on that

    Ticket maschine 3 - "Buy leap card" - add travel credit -> pay-> "Unable to dispense your smartcard. You have NOT been charged for this transaction"

    Ticket maschine 4 - "Buy leap card" - add travel credit -> pay-> "Unable to dispense your smartcard. You have NOT been charged for this transaction"

    Ticket maschine 5 - "Buy leap card" - add travel credit -> pay-> "Unable to dispense your smartcard. You have NOT been charged for this transaction"

    After this I finally got the idea, and gave up. There's a news agent, but the queue was very long and they might have just told me "sure you can buy one at the ticket maschines".

    Feels like they should restock the ticket maschines every now and then.



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    #72
    mikeybhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭mikeybhoy


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    #73
    lord lucan
    Registered Users Posts: 9,575 ✭✭✭lord lucan


    M&S are gone a few years now,Fresh occupy that unit now.



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    #74
    icdg
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 11,507 Mod ✭✭✭✭icdg


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121110081#Comment_121110081

    I got one fairly easily from a TVM at a suburban station a few weeks back with no issues, I have to say. Getting one in a shop proved a bit more tricky as it seems to be only Postpoint agents that do them now and my local one said they didn’t do them oddly.



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    #75
    p_haugh
    Registered Users Posts: 1,117 ✭✭✭p_haugh


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121121368#Comment_121121368

    My sister who was over visiting from the UK was unable to get one from either Booterstown or Dun Laoghaire station when they tried the other month, all the TVMs in both had no leap cards remaining!

    Also interestingly enough, as of a couple weeks ago at least, Donnybrook Fair in Stillorgan still sell leap cards even though they aren't a PostPoint location (at least they didn't have any PostPoint signage, and don't show on the online locator).



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    #76
    mikeybhoy
    Registered Users Posts: 1,062 ✭✭✭mikeybhoy


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121121680#Comment_121121680

    I think a lot the shops are not full post point outlets but just offer leap cards



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