I've ridden the light rail and metro in five dozen cities around the world, including Tokyo,…read moreTaipei, Düsseldorf and Dallas. Dublin's Luas (Gaelic for "Speed") is just as good as any mass transportation network there is. The trams are clean, modern, efficient and speedy. The stops seem to be more targeted for the locals than the tourists but they work fine. Ticket kiosks are easy to understand and if you purchase and put value on a Leap card, you'll save a bunch and not have to be concerned with tickets. Just tap and go plus they work on the buses. I've not been asked to verify my ticket. I am sure that they do check them, but I've not seen it happen. The Green Line (of course it's green - this is Ireland!) opened in 2004 and with the addition of the Red Line a few years later, there are now 67 stations and enough miles of track to host a marathon. With stations across the city, the Red and Green lines get you just about anywhere except the airport. For that, you need a bus. Like lots of cities, Dublin's International Airport is a good ways from downtown. I felt as safe on the Dublin Luas as I did on any other metro anywhere. [Review 1991 of 2024 - 171 in Republic of Ireland - 23013 overall]

I took the Luas tram to get around Dublin. Luas is the Gaelic word for speed. The tram is very…read moresimple and easy to navigate. There are only two lines, a Green Line and a Red Line. The two intersect each other in a simple cross shape, so it's impossible to get lost. Just make sure you are going in the right direction. Green basically runs north to south, and Red runs West to East. The lines also connect to commuter trains that will get you to further places outside the city. For example, I was able to transfer over to the DART train to visit the village of Howth.

DART? more like fart…read more Super inconvenient boarding on the northbound platform - you must climb extra steps over and across the tracks

Great and very helpful service provided to my group when we wandered in of the street and requested…read morehelp getting to the Temple Bar Area by the staff of the Dart station. 1-way tickets cost us €2.60 and the staff member actually came out of the ticket office and told us when station platform nos to go to, and then checked we were crossing the bridge to get to the correct platform. Appreciated his solicitousness! The train itself was very quick-got us to Temple Bar within 10 mins and much cheaper than a cab. I'll be using the DART heaps more on my next visit! Note: #286 of Yelp 100 challenge for 2016

The DART has always been a fascination for me. My mother has been bringing me on it since I was…read moreabout eight months old, so I hold many dear memories of whizzing by Howth bay on this giant green mechanical caterpillar. Of course, you wil have difficulties remembering your fond memories when you're late for work and standing on a crowded platform while staring at that little red led light turn from four to three to...four again

The service isn't great, the stars are for the views…read more I would strongly advise a DART first thing in the morning heading South past Killiney Bay to catch the sunrise over the sea. Even returning to a red sunset and stopping off anywhere for a stroll along the coast(especially between Dun Laoghaire and Booterstown). Keep an eye out for the odd bit of poetry printed around the inside walls of your carriage, and more recently, the occasional massive billboard with prints from Rasher. The DART supports art, apparently. Don't forget though, no matter how much more comfortable it is, ní do chosa suíochán!

Milltown Luas Stop is situated in a very remote corner of Rathmines. From the stop itself it is a…read more15-20min walk to Rathmines village. Compared to the bustling village awaiting in the centre of town when you initially dismount the tram you could be forgiven for thinking you were in the wrong place as the stop is perpendicular to leafy residential roads of the affluent Rathmines suburbs and generally very isolated in both look and feel. In recent years the stop has since been teeming with students from Trinity College Dublin whose halls of residence are situated at the top of Temple Road, an upper class road populated with expensive houses and a chapel. The Canadian ambassador also lives here in a fine-looking mansion. Furthermore, a girl's school runs vertical to the Luas stop and so the foremost sights here are scruffy students and an abundance of groomed secondary school children in a perceptible red and white uniform.

No its not in Stillorgan, Stillorgan is a 15 minute walk away. So confusing for the poor people who…read morehop on the Luas hoping to get off at Stillorgan only to find themselves in the middle of an industrial estate with no sign of a village! I don't get why they called it this at all, perhaps it is because half of the industrial estate is known technically as Stillorgan office park (but everyone really calls the whole thing Sandyford industrial estate). I suppose what is more annoying are the poor eejits who somehow ended up in Stillorgan and they know there is a Luas stop somewhere so they walk around Stillorgan looking for the tram lines of which there are none! Anyway good reader be warned and let this review always stay in your memory when you're on the green line and get to Stillorgan remember that the Luas announcer lady is lying you are not in Stillorgan at all! i have to disagree with another review on here though, im glad it is here, if i had to get off at sandyford or kilmacud stops it would add a few minutes to my journey to work in the morning and every inute counts in the morning, right!?

Right beside the new Aldi which is great, other than than that it is worth noting it is NOWHERE…read morenear Stillorgan!! ...not much else to say about it really!

The security staff ACTIVELY look for tourists who are unaware that the trams that run on rails in…read morethe streets require riders to tap their Leap card on a card reader at the tram stop before boarding the tram vs on the tram itself (unlike the busses and trains) and to tap again when they get off. Failure to do this may earn you a €45 fine or even €100. My wife and I asked two black clothed tram security workers if we were at the correct location for the destination we wanted. They said yes and asked us if we had Leap cards. We did and we showed them. Once on board the tram and underway, they scanned our cards and said we owed a €45 fine for not tapping in before we boarded. There's no lienency or grace. It seems the Luas system is designed to ensnare the unsuspecting and ignorant tourists to make up for the real scofflaws that don't pay for rides. Ireland and it's people were awesome except for the those that conspired to create and operate the Luas Leap card system and it's zero tolerance policy around tapping in and tapping out. The tram riding process isn't well documented in public. It might be online but I didn't procure my card so I can't comment on that. My advice, walk. It's better for all aspects of your health vs letting a little Luas infect you.

SHAME ON LUAS AND THE little brained managers. A little five…read moreyears old would do it better than you. I walk from Trinity college to Stephens green to be told that I have to wait on the wrong platform for 8minutes and then, when the tram arrives I'm told (me and 300 others) to change the platform. SHAME SHAME SHAME I'M STUPID THAT I PAID!!

Its a bus, what can i say? its got 4 wheels, a driver and lets passengers on and off from the…read morefront door. Certainly the transport in Dublin could be better especially i am sorry to say on the northside which does not have the benefit of the Luas and now will never seemingly have the metro but losing buses from the city just is not going to answer that problem and so few of the buses even go anywhere near my job anymore so i have no choice but to use my car. The 83 bus trip has become a bit of an around the world because recently they got rid of the number 19 bus and now the 83 has tried taking in its route too which means you are sitting on the bus while it goes up and down extra roads which were not previously on the route but at least they have free wifi on the buses so now you can spend time checking out what is going on in the rest of the world.

This bus is so handy for work. It's never packed which is a bonus and when timing it on the bus…read moreapp, it actually turns up (most of the time) when it's supposed too-unlike the 145.

So... eh... its a Luas stop - a handy one for me, and its near a few business parks so it might be…read morehandy for others. It's on the Naas Road and not too far from the Long Mile Road. It has a shelter and a seat and doesn't tend to be mad busy with people. Sure its grand!

This is among the most infuriating buildings in Dublin, though chances are you'll never be inside…read moreit. No, you'll be sitting in the bus parked outside the EverReady garage. It's a sort of limbo lottery as the drivers switch, sometimes it's immediate. Sometimes you have to wait for them to have a chat, a smoke, realize that the wrong guy is there, wait for the right guy to finish his tea back at the depot AND THEN wait for the three of them to have a chat, a laugh and another smoke about it. And all this before delivering you to work late and with a story nobody ever seems to believe. Though the service is improving I have been sat here for over half an hour before.

I love the 46a! Ok I know that sometimes Dublin Bus gets a knock but on the whole the 46a gets me…read moreto where I want to be in town and home again. This is the bus service that I used to get to school as a child so I have fond memories. The bus drivers are great although I did experience a change over that was not timed as it should be but it is still an experience. Listening to people talk on their mobile phone is amazing it is though people don't realise other people can hear the conversation....yes I do listen. I had the fastest trip back from Dublin once it only took 30mins when normally it takes 45mins! The downside is that you cannot get change and I don't understand why - the number of times I have not got the right money and I am sure the driver would not appreciate writing a credit for 30c! The buses are mostly clean and you do meet the nicest people who are happy to chat - ok I am happy to listen to them chatting - apart from the one lady who gave me a lecture for being a smoker. I love the 46a