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Originally Posted by Dublin13
A piss poor option at that. I Finish work at 5.30. My morning commute takes me 30 minutes from my door to the office. If I did what you said. it would be almost 1hr 15 mins in the evening.
I'd be waiting longer at Clontarf for a train than I spent door to door in the morning commute. But don't worry, someone on the Howht branch can get a bank of four seats to themselves with trains every 10-15 minutes.
An even better option is the car with evening commute times like that because IE can't provide a proper level of service my car can.
Alternatively Irish Rail could just sling another two cars on the 17:58 and everyone can board. But that would make far too much sense.
The only time it happened to be more than four cars was when someone was doing a survey was on there about the service. Funny that.
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From the outset - let me make it clear that I'm not in any way defending the use of the four car set - it shouldn't be there, full stop.
But at the same time it's not correct to continually suggest that people have to wait until 18:46. They don't, and I think you should acknowledge that. There is a viable connecting service at 18:13, which while it may not suit you ideally, could suit anyone finishing a little later.
The reason there are more Howth DARTs than to Malahide in the current timetable is more to do with the infrastructure constraints at Malahide - a complete redraft would be needed to deal with that.
It's clear that the schedulers tried to deliver a service from Connolly to Clongriffin, Portmarnock and Malahide through a combination of DARTs and Commuter trains.
I do understand your frustration (in particular about the four car DART), but the rest of it is by no means as simple and straightforward as you make it out to be. It needs a timetable recast to allow for the DART dwell time at Malahide - otherwise services would be blocked.
And being honest about it - on a wider point (not your commute specifically), plenty of people don't have a bus/train home directly when they finish work. Many people have to wait a short period to get their bus/train home. At the same time - you shouldn't, but that's another discussion.