Um.

Anyone?

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10 thoughts on “Plane Vs Train

  1. The Millie Obnoxious™

    Yep.

    The expense could be justified if the public transport service were of good quality, eg. frequent, high speed, reliable, decent trains, more express trains etc, but it is not. It’s a mess. An expensive mess.

    1. Clampers Outside

      +1

      Gave up the train for the bus many moons ago.
      More frequency, ie more choice, as fast or faster, and half the price.

  2. Rob_G

    Unless the traveller is based in Swords, the €20 bus will work out cheaper (and, given how long it takes to get through security in Dublin airport, quite possibly quicker).

    1. Daisy Chainsaw

      If you have to take hand luggage then the price doubles so you’ll be paying €40 each way anyway.

      1. Ronan

        And you have to buy one of the first few tickets to secure that air rate.

        Apples and Oranges – the train/bus will likely cost the same the day before travel as it does the month before. The air fare, less so.

  3. gorugeen

    I’m lucky enough to live close to a well served commuter station. Train/Luas combo into Dublin City centre is quick and reasonably priced. Went 3 stops the other way recently. Thought the price was a mistake. 3 times the price and I’d a 45 minute wait. Totally bonkers system we have.

  4. ce

    Yeah, but you get a crap danish and watery tea on the train too… what’s not to love!

    For the moment given some of the cuing at the airport it still might be an advantage to train it…

    We need 20 Euro return on the full length of any line…

  5. Gringo

    I’ve used Kerry airport a few times and it’s a real pleasure compared to the horror of Dublin airport

    1. Rob_G

      Yes, I can only imagine that an airport that has 12 flights a day is a lot calmer than an airport that handles 200+ in the same period.

  6. K. Cavan

    As long as public transit systems are even considered & priced by those running them as if they were commercial enterprises rather than pieces of transport infrastructure, they will fail to provide good services at reasonable prices. In Ireland, we always fail both metrics.
    I haven’t been in every country in Europe but those I’ve been in provide superior services at better prices than Ireland. Apart from the privatised railways in the UK, they’re dreadful.
    A week in Berlin will make you consider that you’d live there without a car, so good are the S-bahn & U-bahn systems, Polish friends remark that, even under the Communists, the city transit systems were superior to ours.
    In Dublin, when I was a teenager, the last bus left the city centre at 11.30, all these years later, it’s exactly the same, with the patchwork Nightbus service more like an emergency evacuation system than public transit. Like everything run by the state, public transit is run to suit those on the other side of the counter, the customer isn’t really part of the equation.
    The Irish Times Transport Correspondent, back when it was a functioning newspaper, remarked that the government considerd public transport as “something for people who can’t afford cars”, that attitude persists.
    The online services offered by our public transport organisations are hilariously bad, a journalist friend sends monthly emails complaining about them, with never any shortage of subject matter. Even a system as useful as the Leap Card, which I use, has ridiculous levels of security attached, as if scammers were intent on cracking the system & putting their money on your card.

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