Dublin Public Transport

[glorob]

Was at the match last Saturday and it must have been 7.00 pm by the time I left Lansdowne Road. Dart to Connolly, Luas to Heuston (jumped off in Abbey St. to get a very quick bite and continued to Heuston on the next Luas) and train to Limerick. I was back in Limerick about 10.40 p.m.


Very efficient.

[Old Dog]

The Dublin public transport system can be seen at its very best whenall ofthe shops and offices are closed and very few people are actually using it Glorob (although I assume that the DART was fairly crowded until Tara Street!)

[TonyD]

Was at the match last Saturday and it must have been 7.00 pm by the time I left Lansdowne Road. Dart to Connolly, Luas to Heuston (jumped off in Abbey St. to get a very quick bite and continued to Heuston on the next Luas) and train to Limerick. I was back in Limerick about 10.40 p.m.


Very efficient.





All systems work brilliantly when we're all at home or in the pub! please explain how the "very efficient" system got you there earlier in the day!

[RobbieG]

Govt. has spent about 20 years & 30 million on an integrated ticketing system for Dublin, this guy does a map of it in no time (probably not much cost) for his masters




London Underground’s iconic diagram has inspired an integrated map of Dublin transport routes, writes
<s&#111;ng>FRANK McDONALD,</s&#111;ng>Environment Editor

EIGHT YEARS
ago, a German-born graphic design student came for the first time to
Dublin and was as confused as anyone about how to get around the city by
public transport.

There was no handy map of bus and rail
services, so it became a “pet project” for Aris Venetikidis (his father
is Greek and his mother German) to make one as memorable as the London
Underground diagram.

After being rejected initially as a project
for his undergraduate degree in graphic design at the National College
of Art and Design (NCAD), because his tutors thought it would be “too
complex”, he got another chance to do it for his master’s degree. And by
then, he had years of experience of using public transport in Dublin.

“I
found it frustrating and far below international standards,” he says.
“I grew up in the Ruhr Valley region in western Germany, where they have
great public transport maps. But when I started using graphic design to
produce a map for Dublin, I came to the conclusion that the network
itself is so complex that it’s almost unmappable.”

So Venetikidis,
who is now 31, teamed up with Dublin Institute of Technology
postgraduate and transport campaigner James Leahy, who had finished his
master’s degree thesis on bus rapid transit as a sustainable – and more
affordable – alternative to Luas. Together, they created a “model
network”, which he then began to map.

“After spending about a year
drawing maps over and over again, going back to square one and
improving them, I ended up with a city centre public transport map,
based on a simplified network, that has an unprecedented level of detail
and clarity – and this has been acknowledged by Dublin Bus, Dublin City
Council and others.

“The reaction to my map has been
outstandingly, overwhelmingly positive. There’s still a lot of discourse
about James Leahy’s model, but it’s clear to me that, without a
fundamental simplification of the network, the system will remain
confusing to new users and so will any endeavour to create intelligible
public transport maps.”

Essentially, the map Venetikidis designed
includes all bus services and stops, as well as existing and proposed
Luas stops, existing Dart stations and the proposed Dart Underground
link between Inchicore and Docklands, with intervening stations at
Heuston, Christ Church, St Stephen’s Green, Pearse (Westland Row) and
Spencer Dock.

Everything is colour-coded, and the 10 bus rapid
transit lines proposed by Leahy are given names such as Beckett, Larkin,
Stoker and Yeats.

These are shown on a large format map of the
public transport network as a whole, then in detail on a separate map of
the inner city area, so people can see exactly where they are going.

“Every
stop is on it, because you can’t assume that every new user has a
working knowledge of Dublin’s geography,” Venetikidis says. “So even
Dubliners invited to a friend’s party, for example – all they would have
to do is to identify the nearest stop on the map, which is not
something they can do now, and then work out the route they need to
take.”

As the iconic London Underground map had shown, “a
successful integrated public transport map is the key to motivating
people to leave the car and make the switch to a sustainable transport
mode. Couple that with a modern network of rapid transit and you have
the solution to congested city centre streets and an absent
infrastructure.”

Venetikidis is full of admiration for Harry Beck,
the London Transport employee who drew the original diagram of its tube
network in 1931 that still forms the basis of the map in use tod

[munsterforever]

a direct express bus from heuston to the airport would be handy. the existing bus goes via connolly and takes an hour

[drift]

a direct express bus from heuston to the airport would be handy. the existing bus goes via connolly and takes an hour


There are 2 bus links from Heuston to the airport one goes by connelly one doesn't.

[Huwie]

For those of you looking to travel by public transport to Dublin airport via Heuston.

Route 748 Heuston - Airport Direct has been discontinued.
Route 747 Heuston - Scenic Tour of Dublin - Airport is the only one left.

So give yourself an extra hour travel time.
Rubbish - next time I'll change @ Red Cow