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Luas Red Line C1 extension

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    #32
    Poxyshamrock
    Registered Users Posts: 4,826 ✭✭✭Poxyshamrock


    I still don't see why they don't have every second train going to either Connolly or The Point. This whole delta is going to be confusing.
    What way is the Abbey St. Terminus going to work?


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    #33
    Bluetonic
    Registered Users Posts: 7,588 ✭✭✭Bluetonic


    Poxyshamrock wrote:
    I still don't see why they don't have every second train going to either Connolly or The Point. This whole delta is going to be confusing.
    What way is the Abbey St. Terminus going to work?


    there has been no timetable made available yet.

    posts by posters like this revel the poster for a scandalous fool


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    #34
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,243 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Play nice.


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    #35
    Xylophonic
    Closed Accounts Posts: 364 ✭✭Xylophonic


    Poxyshamrock wrote:
    What way is the Abbey St. Terminus going to work?

    Answer:
    MarkoP11 wrote:
    Inbound tram would leave Abbey Street proceed past VHI then reverse over the crossover at VHI to the outbound platform.


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    #36
    spacetweek
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,955 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    Xylophonic wrote:
    Picture of rails: http://thewanderersirishrailphotospot.fotopic.net/p43299320.html
    Looks like the guys have pitched a tent for the night :)


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    #37
    Kevster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Kevster


    I had a hand in organising permits for this to happen just a few weeks ago. THey're going to be removing all of the parking bays on Mayor Street, which will probably piss-off a lot of people that regularly park there. The LUAS is a great success though but each evening I use it I feel like a sardine in a tin-can.


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    #38
    spacetweek
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,955 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    Poxyshamrock wrote:
    I still don't see why they don't have every second train going to either Connolly or The Point. This whole delta is going to be confusing.
    That would provide only half the number of services to the Point that the rest of the line gets. The delta junction makes it less, rather than more, confusing.
    Kevster wrote:
    The LUAS is a great success though but each evening I use it I feel like a sardine in a tin-can.
    Agreed, particularly central Red Line - unusable most of the time. Have moved out of its catchment now but took it from Smithfield to Abbey on a Sunday a week ago - hadn't been on it in ages, and was appalled to get a 30 metre tram. The upgrade to 40m carriages seems to be taking an interminable length of time to complete.


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    #39
    Kevster
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,980 ✭✭✭Kevster


    Well, it certainly needs the longer trams... Each evening I invariably get squashed-up beside some smelly person or am put in an uncomfortable position whereby my face is not but 1cm from the person in front of me... ...

    ... ...ok, I have exaggerated but still! :)

    kevin.


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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,243 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    spacetweek wrote:
    Agreed, particularly central Red Line - unusable most of the time.
    An irony. It can't be used, because it is being used. :)


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    #41
    gjim
    Registered Users Posts: 1,109 ✭✭✭gjim


    Dunno why they didn't just ditch the Connolly stop and link Connolly to Busaras and the Luas via a subway maybe with a travellator. Particularly if it started at the DART platforms, this would probably be easier and quicker for the majority of passengers as well as providing integration between Busaras and Connolly for non-Luas users. Amiens St. isn't the easiest to navigate with luggage. The Busaras and Connolly stops are only about 150m apart anyway and having a straight run-through from Store St. to Mayor St. would be operationally simpler and quicker - saving journey time and d*cking about with the driver having to switch ends.


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    #42
    spacetweek
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 4,955 Mod ✭✭✭✭spacetweek


    gjim wrote:
    Dunno why they didn't just ditch the Connolly stop and link Connolly to Busaras and the Luas via a subway maybe with a travellator. Particularly if it started at the DART platforms, this would probably be easier and quicker for the majority of passengers as well as providing integration between Busaras and Connolly for non-Luas users. Amiens St. isn't the easiest to navigate with luggage. The Busaras and Connolly stops are only about 150m apart anyway and having a straight run-through from Store St. to Mayor St. would be operationally simpler and quicker - saving journey time and d*cking about with the driver having to switch ends.
    Good point but there is no room for the portals for such an arrangement at Busaras Luas Stop and in any case Connolly is enough of a primary destination that a dedicated stop is justifiable.


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    #43
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,243 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    I was down there the other day. I wonder if they will finish the north side of the street and do service diversions (I'm not sure if there will be much, all the buildings on that side of the street has been demolished) on the south side and return to do road finsihes and track or will they finish off the northside of the street first.


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    Victor
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    Lots of the safety signage is being ignored by some traffic that is contra-flowing on the one way street, following the old directional signage.

    The centre of Geoges Dock Bridge is open to pedestrians and cyclists, with work being done to finish off the footpaths.


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    #45
    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,243 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    http://www.rpa.ie/?id=359
    Luas Line C1 Morning Open Forums
    National College of Ireland - IFSC, Docklands, Dublin 1.

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