"Runners" should be punished.

[Aphfaneire]

I dont know if this kind of person exists on all commute lines but its very prevelant on the commuter and only seems to exist souly for drogheda. Its the people that get out of there seats just before arriving at laytown and take up the standing area even before the doors open. They then proceed to not move and laytown passengers have to duck and dive past them. Prior to this the standing room usualy has only just cleared and its safe to sit down or maybe if its your lucky day you can get a seat.
They stand the whole 7 minutes to drogheda from laytown with their car keys in had and expecting someone to have their hand ready to open the door.
Apon arrival the door must open for them no matter what and they run like mad to get jammed in the single door off of the platform or going up the very narrow staircase, regaudless of people comming down it. Once out they continue to run to their cars and get in as quickly as possible and then dash down the hill. Now because of the numbers doing it and the traffic problems in drogheda this cause's instand conjestion, and indegestion for the people who are unfortunet enough to push out of the way and left at the back of the queue by the sheer numbers of runners.


This leaves no solution but to sit and wait for these runners to stop displaying the worst driving in history at illeagal speeds for a carpark just to cause traffic for everyone else.

Why should the patient passengers who have had the exact same day as the runners and who have been standing for the whole journey have to deal with these people who run to cause traffic. Not only this but they are also the savages that ram through the doors to get the seats in the begining, only to get up 10 minutes early to run to their cars.

I officially loath these mannerless examples of irelands commuters

[cubassist 2]

No it happens at Balbriggan too. (Although I've heard it's worse at Drogheda). In fairness to them I'm sure they want to just get home as quickly as possible, but it probably would be easier for them to just stay in their (if they're lucky enough to get one!) seats the extra five mins and stroll to their cars.
Surely an extra 10 mins ain't going to hurt them!

[Mark Hennessy]

The mad dash happens in maynooth too around 1800.

[James Shields]

I see it in Drogheda every day, and I can only conclude that these people have no lives.

In fairness, the queue to get out of the station can be a pain (though slightly better since they started towing cars parked on the access road so traffic can use both lanes), and I have runonce or twice (but only once outside the station building). Nowadays I mostly cycle, avoiding the parking/escaping problems altogether.

I don;t thing the problem is exclusive to Drogheda, but it does seem worse here than at most other stations.

[2Funki4Wheelz]

A few 'runners' at Portarlington too (I've seen them on the 17.55 & 18.00), they literally elbow their way up the stairs, sprint across the bridge and speed out of the car park. (And as there's less of them they stand out more and look really bizarre)

I take my time and when I do get a lift home off a neighbour we're not more than a couple of minutes behind 'runners'. Maybe they're avid Nationwide fans and don't want to miss a minute.

[Mark Gleeson]

Same gig in Newbridge but no footbridge just a dash for the car since its a pain to get out of the car park and the traffic through the town is horrible

I can beat the bulk on foot as far as the post office in the town