All aboard the Luas, at last Tickets, please: the low-down on Luas
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“including shelter ” at Windy Arbour.
Thanks but it seems as if the shelter here has no protective or sheltering side walls, – dont fancy waiting too long there.
Clue
– the placename may reveal something about the weather / local microclimate.The Charlemont Bridge is one of the worst things built in the city in recent times – it’s incredibly ugly and the red just makes it more noticable.
Even a motorway bridge in that new smooth concrete would have been a million times better – the current yoke looks like some postmodern experiment in Milton Keynes from 1987, esp when contrasted with calm and collected Carrolls building a couple of feet away.I know, for a long time I thought “that’s the supporting structure, bet it will look nice when they build the actual bridge . . .”
Gabriel
Well – that maroon red colour is the standard colour steel comes in from the factory so I thought it was going to be painted. That defiantly gave me the feeling it wasn’t finished.
Took a look at the Windy Arbour halt
Sad to say the vandals had paid a visit to the “shelter” for Luas at the Arbour and tested some of the glass screens to destruction, since the photo earlier up this site was taken.
Just having one ticket machine on each platform could be interesting, and a lot of fun when one is out of order (of course this will never ever happen) – with passengers darting over and back across the lines to buy their tickets.
They obviously hope to rely on season tickets – but as far as I know there have been no published tariff rates for them, as yet, and very little chance to sell them in advance now of the likely first service date.
But we make it up as we go along in this country.
Em… is those very precarious steps down from the Charlemont bridge to be used by the public? There are no handrails!
I had a look at Charlemont today, they are putting the handrails on at the moment. There’s going to be perforated metal infills to the stairs and they will have signposts indicating which to use for inbound and outbound trams.
The guys on site also told me that the bridge will have glazed panels and cover plates so the finished article will look very different. They were laying some fine granite around the base of the stairs next to a new jetty on the canal.
Also this week the framework for the canopies at Connolly started to go up. I’ve attached a picture of the first one. There are four in total which will be installed over the coming weeks.
JJ
Last minute work at Ranelagh this evening on the wide set of stairs up under the arch to the Puce line, – putting in hand rails I think before opening tomorrow.
I’d watch this one in the wet – touch of the Odessa Steps about them.
Free tomorrow evening.
Some fresh pics up on my site http://www.allaboutbuses.com/luas showing last minute preperations at Dundrum.
By the way, I have to say the public walkway along the suspension bridge at Taney Cross is lovely – you can now get from Churchtown Road to Dundrum Station in an easy, level walk, and it also allows walkers from the same direction to get to Dundrum village without having to negociate the huge, hostile, multi-road junction.
And the views are nice too!
Gabriel
Well it is up and running and the queue for it today at St Stephen’s Green stretched back around the Green, almost to the top of Dawson Street, at around 4 p.m. That looked to me to be about 4 x LUAS loads worth, or a 40 minutes wait if they were following the timetable.
Mostly mums and kiddies but some older folks too taking advantage of the free trips.
Is this a bad initial signal to give out , that the LUAS is likely to be jammed, to potential car drivers?
The ‘sails’ at Connolly have been up for quite a few days now, difficult to see what’s going on from outsid the site though – see you manage to get in JJ!
Can’t believe this day has finally arrived, don’t think anyone else can either – and it only took 12 years!
Originally posted by dc3
Well it is up and running and the queue for it today at St Stephen’s Green stretched back around the Green, almost to the top of Dawson Street, at around 4 p.m. That looked to me to be about 4 x LUAS loads worth, or a 40 minutes wait if they were following the timetable.
I left work early with the intention of travelling but when I saw the queue, I decided that the saving of €4 wasn’t worth it. I’ll travel next week when the rubberneckers have lost interest.:D
Quite disgraceful coverage by RTE News – nothing but a tossed-together report by Orla McDonnell at 9, and the story wasn’t second or third, but sixth!
All the whinging about the lack of coverage of the regions has led RTE to literally apologise everytime they run a Luas story, on radio and television. And there was no analysis of the project, any ’round up’ of why it was delayed and who was responsible, no facts as to capacity, purchasing tickets, details about how it operates, similar systems abroad, no graphics of any kind – just depend on the old reliables – vox pops. How lazy.First minor collision already: http://www.rte.ie/news/2004/0701/luas.html
Long waits again at lunchtime in town today for the free Luas.
First hints of bus service cuts in the newspaper today, to take account of the arrival of the Luas.
Still no idea how the buses, coming out of Hume St and going round St Stephens Green, will be able to go up Earlsfort Terrace in future under the new “backwards” traffic flow around the Green.
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