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Rail to Navan - a litany of broken promises

  • 24-08-2006 9:28pm
    #1
    Navan Junction
    Closed Accounts Posts: 721 ✭✭✭


    On the homepage of Meath on Track, there is a new timeline / history of broken promises made in relation to Navan over the past 10 years at http://www.meathontrack.com


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  • #2
    Chris_533976
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,082 ✭✭✭Chris_533976


    A catalogue of disasters.

    This would never stand anywhere else in the EU. Shameful.


  • #3
    Flukey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭Flukey


    No surprise there then. It and a litany of other lines around the country should be in the process of reopening now. For many of them, a bit of hedge trimming would be nearly enough to have some of them going again. Someone get Martin Cullen an electric hedge cutter now.


  • #4
    Bill McH
    Closed Accounts Posts: 169 ✭✭Bill McH


    That list makes for appalling reading.
    Minister Cullen at Transport 21 launch, 2005 wrote:
    We will open a new terminal station in the Docklands.
    This will enable us to deliver new rail services to Navan on a phased basis. The first phase will be a spur from the Maynooth line to Dunboyne. The second phase will extend the service to Navan. Services on the Maynooth line will also be increased.
    Meath on Track website wrote:
    By July, despite Meath having the highest population growth in Ireland in Census 2006 after Fingal, the Transport 21 website is changed to read: 'subject to further studies it is proposed to extend the railway to Navan'.

    :(


  • #5
    admiralofthefleet
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    Flukey I totally agree with you, many lines should never have been closed in the first place.

    Dubliners will know that the full harcourt line that closed in 1958 should never have been closed in the first place; im sure people from navan, kells, trim, athboy and surrounding areas feel the same about the navan line & local branch lines.

    fermoy, michelstown & south east cork city also had their railway lines closed & are now clogged with traffic

    the list goes on & on

    we need to move away from building bypass after bypass and concentrate funds on public transport


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