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    1. waxcaba on

      You’d want to be driving a pencil to find space in maynooth after 10 or so

    2. Pizzagoessplat on

      Lol I’ve NEVER seen a clamped car in Ireland and have constantly seen cars parked illegally here and don’t get me started on a match day.

      There’s also no public transport here

    4. Archamasse on

      Took the bus for the first time in months last week. It arrived late and then broke down. A replacement bus came along. Then it broke down too.

      Luckily, services are so few and far between that I would have arrived two hours before my appointment anyway, so I managed to be just on time for it regardless.

      Still, in light of that experience, I made sure to take trains home when my appointment was over. 

      Well the first train was twenty minutes late, so it missed the connecting one I’d planned around, leaving me with an extra hour and a half to wait around in the cold after everything was pretty much closed. 

      The *next* train also ended up delayed for twenty more minutes, this time in the middle of the journey, to allow another late train to pass in the opposite direction.

      It ended up taking me more than eight hours to make a supposedly four hour round trip, less than that if I’d been able to drive, for one appointment. A whole waking day of my life I won’t get back. 

    5. LucyVialli on

      „You can have a snooze, or you can study, or just relax“

      Fat chance – have you seen the way people behave on the bus now?? Blasting their TikTok nonsense all over the shop, annoying everyone else.

    10. No-Lemon-1183 on

      That would be nice if more than ONE  Dublin bus route served Maynooth!!

    11. 11483708 on

      I went to Maynooth and loved it…..however I live in the catchment area and to get to Maynooth, I would need to take 2 buses that run inconsistently, stop early, and we’re expensive……..or I could drive for 20 minutes……

    14. epicsnail14 on

      When I was studying in maynooth, I used to have to get the bus from Newbridge. Its a private coach company (i cant remember which one) It cost a fiver each way, you had to book your seat in advance, and they would routinely overbook the morning buses so even if you paid you weren’t guaranteed to get on.

      This was only 7 years ago. I can’t imagine its gotten any better.

      IMO its a joke that maynooth (kildare’s 3rd largest town by population) doesn’t have any real public transport connections to Newbridge or naas (kildares 1st and 2nd largest towns). It would go a long way to helping the student housing crisis in maynooth if you could get to the damn place.

    15. MagnifyingGlass on

      When I was in Maynooth (many years ago) I applied to on-campus accommodation every year because transport to campus is woeful

    17. JuggernautSuper5765 on

      Maynooth has gotten ridiculous… Happy to sell parking permits but not provide parking… Happy to tell people to get „the bus“… that doesn’t really exist(I know there is a bus… but there needs to be many more options) Imo the university population has grown beyond capacity, which is sad because I had very fond memories of Maynooth. 

    18. Atreides-42 on

      The only bus I could take to and from Maynooth had its latest bus leave at 6. If you had a lecture finish at 6 you *had* to leave early to catch it, and god forbid it was in South Campus, you’d have to ditch the lecture 15 minutes early to catch the last bus home.

      What’s that, you wanted to do after-college activities? Nope, sorry, commuters aren’t allowed to, gotta be on that last bus by 6.

      Now, parking in Maynooth in my final year was also hell, I missed several lectures trying to find parking, so I don’t blame Maynooth for encouraging people to take public transit. But maybe it would work better if there was public transit that actually *worked* for the needs of the students?

    19. J-Ball89 on

      My car is in the mechanic and I have to take public transport tomorrow. A trip that takes an hour and ten in the car is going to take nearly four hours on public transport. I’m not happy

    20. ExcitementStrict7115 on

      I’d be happy to take the bus except I have to travel to the nearest town to even get a bus and if I have to go to that trouble I might as well just drive the whole way.

    21. Space_Hunzo on

      Do the Dublin Bus services even serve the campus these days? When I was commuting to Maynooth, the train was hourly, so I’d sometimes catch the 66/67 and get spat out on Main Street because they stopped running to Kilcock. Used to be a pain walking down to get the last bus if I stuck around for anything

    22. Ok_Appointment3668 on

      Getting the bus from Maynooth is miserable. I had plenty of friends that had the choice to miss a 1 o’clock lecture, or be stuck on campus until 7 o’clock because there are only two buses that day. Even getting the bus to Dublin, there were crowds, to the point where you’d have to wait for the next bus 30+mins later because the first was too full. Fights because people trying to cut in front. Once again a half-baked idea from Maynooth.

    23. tipp77 on

      I’m not sure are they trying to encourage people to take the bus? Its so understated and subtle you couldnt be 100 per cent sure

    25. WeDoingThisAgainRWe on

      Have a snooze, study, on a stress free bus commute – really? Do they have a private bus?

    26. ashalinggg on

      I used to take the bus sometimes when I was in Maynooth and it was min 3 hours, and half the time it was so busy you had to stand or else be turned away with no other way home 🫠

    29. Pale_Piano948 on

      Inhale: 

      “Give us fucking bus lanes and a live tracker on the tfi app and let us pay contactless and have a digital leap card”

    30. IXRaven on

      The irony in Maynooth University harping on about wanting people to take the bus when they’ve had nothing but issues with the bus services around them. The C Spine is an absolute joke. The 115 in particular is one of the most unreliable buses in the country and to get on it at 5PM you’d have to win a WWE Royal Rumble.

    31. ElvisMcPelvis on

      Should be another one saying Just take the Fucking bus, for Christ sake !

    35. Shanksdoodlehonkster on

      I often eat my Frosties on the very early morning bus looking up at the stars. I take the Universal Cereal Bus.

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