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Originally Posted by Gary
Not sure if this is just co-incidence but twice this week have seen northbound trains at Clontarf Road at around 5.20pm with low passenger numbers ie no one standing and plenty of seats, meanwhile the traffic along the coast road is solid.
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I know this isn't the in-depth answer you're looking for but when I worked in Seapoint near Clontarf Road station I never took the train because the bus was almost always faster and more frequent, even at rush hour. There are just too many 15 minute gaps and in 15 minutes I could be in the city centre. Obviously if you're travelling further afield, the Dart starts to make more sense.
If you want a deeper answer, it's probably because the transport network in dublin is quite poor. Some individual links (Dart, Luas, 46B) can be quite good but they don't cover enough of the city and interchange is poor. Feeder buses with decent bus priority along the route would help.