Article in Sunday Tribune about Phoenix Park Station

[ThomasJ]

did anyone see the article about phoenix park station in todays tribune?

It relates to confusion amongst tourists about getting to the phoenix park. it does mention suggestion of signage for the park at ashtown station which i think would be a good workaround.

[Colm Moore]

http://www.tribune.ie/news/home-news...nkeys-of-tour/

Train station name confusion makes monkeys of tourists
Mark Hilliard

DISORIENTATED tourists visiting the Phoenix Park are regularly left scratching their heads at least a kilometre away from their destination due to ongoing confusion over train station names.

Local politicians say that because of the misleading naming of the Phoenix Park stop, those unfamiliar with the city have been going to the wrong one, and finding themselves left with a considerable walk.

Iarnród Éireann says that while it had not received many comments on the situation lately it is prepared to examine signage at Ashtown, the station closer to the park, "to indicate its proximity".

"The station was funded by the developers of the Phoenix Park residential development, hence its name," a spokesman said.

However, local councillor Kieran Dennison said complaints were regular and the number of official comments to the company was probably not reflective of the true situation. When this opened the developer had to build it as a condition of building apartments, he said.

"It was called the Phoenix Park train station but it is a kilometre away from the park and the actual train station that serves the park is Ashtown.

"Tourists are getting on the train and going to the Phoenix Park, getting off and finding that they have gone at least a kilometre too far.

"There have been complaints. People have mentioned it in the locality. We are probably not even getting the level of complaints that we could have."

Iarnród Éireann said that while it would look at the issue, the majority of tourists visiting the park do so from the entrance near Heuston Station.

Meanwhile, the company has said that a recent inability to refund machine tickets to rail users at Connolly Station was due to a "mis*under*standing".

Customers looking for reimbursements on unused tickets were being told that if they bought them from the automatic machines they were unable
to receive over-the-counter refunds.

A spokesman explained the company was seeking to collect information on refunds recorded in a specific way and this was misinterpreted by staff as not being possible for machine-bought tickets. Instead, forms were filled out and processed.

"Staff will be rebriefed so that tickets not yet used can be refunded over the counter," he said.

May 2, 2010

[sean]

I never understood the logic of calling the station "Phoinex Park" when it clearly is nothing of the sort. Housing development or not, it just doesn't make any sense.

[Colm Moore]

The apartments associated with it are built on the former Phoenix Park Racecourse (which wasn't an actual part of the park).

[ThomasJ]

still though i remember there were considerations as to what the now known clongriffin should be called. Sometimes the buses state "baldoyle station"

I dont see why this could have been the same for the phoenix park. What would have happened if there was an actual station in the phoenix park

[Colm Moore]

Originally Posted by ThomasJ

still though i remember there were considerations as to what the now known clongriffin should be called. Sometimes the buses state "baldoyle station"

They shouldn't any more. They changed when the station opened.

[ThomasJ]

New notice at Connolly Station

Customer Information

Customer wishing to access the Phoenix Park should alight at Ashtown Station

[Colm Moore]

Alternatively, customers wishing to access the Phoenix Park should get the Luas to Museum or Heuston.

[ThomasJ]

Originally Posted by Colm Moore

They shouldn't any more. They changed when the station opened.

Am on a 128 now and the destination states "baldoyle station"