Thought I'd be all green and stuff yesterday... you know do my bit for the environment seen as I don't have the funds for a hybrid Lexus! SO, decided to hop on the train into Connolly instead of taking the jenmobile. Flew in, €4.30 or €4.50 or something like that, pretty reasonable, considering 2 hours in the Ilac Centre costs over a fiver. Only annoying aspect was that the lift outside wasn't working. Decided to bring buggy down escalators. The downward bound escalator wasn't working either! Went back into the station and couldn't find a lift. Asked lady at information how to get out, she said there was lift at platform 4. Had to go back through the ticket area, not copping that that was hardly the way out... obviously it wasn't! Asked the fellow on the ticket exit area and finally found one inside along with another lady who was in a similar predicament. So for a 25-30 minute train journey, another 10 minutes were spent trying to get out of the station!
Headed back to Connolly for the 14.52 train. CANCELLED! Along with a train to the Castleknock direction. Was listening to the radio early in the morning and there was no mention of rolling stoppages. Anyhow, dude in the station told a blatant lie to me when he said that there was a problem with the train. When I asked would the next train, an HOUR LATER, be alright, he said yes, it was a train specific problem! HELLO!!! I learnt, when I eventually got home, that his brethern would rather vent their frustration on their customers, than going through mediation channels! Looking around the station at that hour I deduced two things, 1) the owners of the shops in the station must jump for joy when trains are cancelled as their sales increase unexpectedly for that day and 2) cancelling trains at that hour of the day affects mostly parents with young tots and older people, people with less muscle in the grand scheme of things. That's obviously why that time is chosen!
Train finally arrived an hour later. Forgot that it started at Pearse! Was chock-a-block with kids! So thus had to stand all the way home! Got to Donabate, and have to say, having driven a buggy around the place for the last 2 years, I really feel for anyone in a wheelchair! There is no quick way out of Donabate if you can't use the stairs! One has to go all the way around where the new car entrance which adds an extra 5 mins to one's journey!
Suffice to say, feck the environment, feck the cost. If I'd had the car, I would have been home by 15.00 as opposed to 16.45 on poxy Iarnród Éireann.
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