Tara Street Station

Ernest

Does anybody know what Ianrod Eireann are up to with Tara Street station?
For months now commuters can see new stairs leading down to something but they are blocked off as is the view of whatever is down there. Southbound commuters currently have to use the uncomfortable stairs at the very end of the platform nearest the river while all southbound trains insist on stopping as far away from this as possible - nearest the other end of the platform. Wasn't there supposed to be a new entrance to this station from that long derelict office/shop building at the end of Tara Street near the quays? Is that idea still planned for ? Does the mysterious new underground area lead to this new entrance. Does it link to the existing front (river side) entrance? In more recent weeks they have installed large numbers of new ticket checking machines at the exising concourse entrance. They were brought into operation one day and since then switched off again.
In the meantime the platforms are dangerously narrow and have only one train arrival sign on each curved platform. These signs cannot be read from a distance and this is made worse by the fact that they are obscured by the dazzle of wrongly positioned platform lights making it necessary to move up close to read them - along an already dangerously crowded platform.
This is said to be Dublin's most used commuter station. Yet no information about what is going on with it is to be found anywher in the station. Instead, a prominent sign near the entrance boasts: "There are no toilets in this station". Kind of says it all really - about Iarnrod Eireann.

BrianD

At the southern end of the station there is a brand new concourse built under the arches. Very modern looking - new turnstiles, plasma displays etc. with exits into Georges Quay Plaza and Townsend St.

Oddly enough there is no branding outside the exits saying that this is Tara St. Railway station in keeping with the low key approach that Irish public transport likes to take.