Ticket and parking information: Tickets for the Luas will be available from vending machines at the stops and will be sold already validated.with Luas:ticket and parking information
Tickets will cost between €1.30 and €2 for one-way trips, with a seven-day unlimited ticket to cost €16 - or €14 from selected retailers. There will be no ticket sales or ticket validating machines on the trams.
Intending passengers arriving at the Luas stops on the Green Line can expect to be able to bring golf clubs, baby buggies, wheelchairs and guide dogs - the only dogs permitted - on board with them. Bicycles will not be allowed. However, the Railway Procurement Agency will allow free parking for motorbikes alongside bicycles at park and ride sites. The park-and-ride sites are located at Sandyford, Stillorgan and Balally. Luas users must pay 4 per day or part day to use the car parks. For motorists who want to avail of Luas and avoid the park-and-ride charges, a survey of the line has revealed the following places where free, legal parking is apparently available.
Sandyford: Parking within the industrial estate is not currently a problem. However, it is expected to be more restricted when the service gets underway. Parking is available on large stretches of Leopardstown Road where no yellow lines are in place. There are no apparent restrictions in the South County Business Park, where spaces line the main thoroughfare. On-street parking is also taking place in nearby estates, at Woodford, Silver Pines and The Chase.
Stillorgan: There are no yellow lines or visible warning notices on the road from the Stillorgan stop towards the Kilmacud Road. On-street parking is available in Stillorgan Heath, a largish, local housing estate.
Kilmacud: There are no yellow lines on the new Drummartin Link Road and no apparent restrictions on parking in the vicinity of the station. This is expected to change.
Balally: There are signs here for the Luas car park but it is difficult to access due to the large volume of construction work on apartment blocks and the new Dundrum Shopping Centre. Parking is, however, available at the civic amenity centre, close to the school on the Dundrum side of the stop.
Dundrum: The older Dundrum Shopping Centre has free but time-controlled parking. Parking on the main street and at the neighbourhood shopping centre north of Taney junction is pay-and-display.
Windy Arbour: Lots of parking on-street is visible on the eastern side of the Luas stop. There are no yellow lines on the western side but the road is narrow and parking could restrict access.
Milltown: On-street parking is taking place at Temple Park, Temple Road, alongside Luas near the Alexandra sports fields and at Richmond Park and Richmond Avenue South.
Cowper: On-street parking is taking place at Cowper Road, Merton Road, Tudor Road and Cowper Gardens.
Beechwood: Dublin city's pay-and-display machines come into operation from about Palmerston Road inwards, and all streets, including Dunville Avenue around the Beechwood stop, are Red Zone pay-and-display.
Ranelagh: Red Zone pay-and-display system in place on all surrounding streets.
Charlemont: Red Zone pay- and- display system in operation.
Harcourt Street: Red Zone pay- and-display in operation.
St Stephen's Green: Yellow Zone pay-and-display parking system in operation.
Most connecting bus services are at St Stephen's Green and Harcourt Street. One stop at Windy Arbour has just one service, route 14A, and two stops, Kilmacud and Cowper, have no interchange with buses.