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Have a look for comments about the car parking at Rush & Lusk station.If you decide to park at the field...wear your wellies as it is extremely mucky. Parking at the car park otherwise is non existent after 7.20.
Rush/Lusk train station parking like ‘Vietnam’
By Robin Kiely
A RUSH commuter has compared the daily scene at Rush/Lusk train station to ‘Vietnam’, so serious has the crisis over parking become.
Lisa Crosby works in the city centre and described the arduous journey she faces every morning, beginning at the now infamous station.
‘I start work at 9.30am and in order to get parking I have to be at the station no longer than 7am,’ she said.
‘I sit in the car and wait for the train until 7.30am. By the time I get into town, I’ve got 45 minutes to waste every morning, waiting for my workplace to open.’
Lisa has been commuting to town for the last three years and has noticed the situation deteriorating in that time.
‘It just keeps getting worse and worse,’ she continued. ‘People have now started parking in the fields around the station. I’ve seen girls coming out with muck up to their ankles from walking through the ditches.
‘And if you get back to the station in any way early, you are effectively hemmed in, as people are now abandoning their cars.’
The parking problem has now hit new levels, with commuters facing daily battles – in some case literal battles – to acquire a space.
‘These days, if you want to catch a train in the morning, it turns into Vietnam. I got a train the other morning with a friend and as she was reversing into a space, someone sped past and narrowly missed her.
‘I thought they were going to kill each other. My car has been hit twice in recent months also.’
With city centre parking costing up to €15 a day, Lisa said she will continue the daily slog to get to work each day. She added that the solution was simple.
‘The car park needs to be bigger. As far as I know, there is loads of land around the station and I don’t know if it’s greedy farmers of what it is [preventing more spaces].
‘A bus link would help, but the buses don’t coincide with the train times. There was a shuttle bus in place before, but it didn’t really work.
‘At this stage, I’d even think about cycling a pushbike to work.’
CIE chief: Station parking is ‘high priority’
By Robin Kiely
MORE parking facilities at Rush and Lusk train station are a ‘high priority’, the Chief Executive of Iarnród Eireann, Richard Fearn has said.
Following negotiations with Green Party Leader, Trevor Sargent TD, the CIE boss has stressed his company’s intention to provide more facilities for commuters and said land near the station was being urgently sought.
‘I do acknowledge the urgency of the need to provide more car parking capacity at this station,’ Mr Fearn said.
‘The CIE Group property manager is currently actively engaged in negotiations to try to secure additional land from adjacent property owners near the station.
‘As soon as any such land is acquired, we will seek the planning permission to extend our car parking and implement the scheme as quickly as possible.’
Although Mr Fearn did not give a definite timescale, he did note that Rush and Lusk was ‘very high in our list of priorities for additional car parking’.
In response, Deputy Sargent welcomed the news, though stressed the need for more services for commuters in the area, in particular a shuttle bus.
‘While I appreciate the priority being given by Iarnród Siren to the provision of additional parking, the chronic overcrowding and the immediate needs of constituents who commute in and out of Dublin in particular need more immediate solutions,’ he said.
‘I again appeal to Bus Atha Cliath and private bus operators to address the need for a shuttle bus service between Rush and Lusk and the station.
‘I also appeal to Fingal County Council to prioritise the upgrading of the road and footpath so that pedestrians and cyclists can both access the station in safety and not run the risk of being splashed by passing traffic on wet days’.
Deputy Sargent also called for a cycleway to be provided to the station from both Rush and Lusk.
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