Transport 21

Sea Sharp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_21

Interesting read. They propose building a metro through Blanchardstown. And a load of new Luas lines. Does any1 know any more information than is available on the wikipedia article?

KC61

I'd have to ask where have you been for the past eighteen months given this has been in the public domain for that length of time!

Anyhow, the full details (insofar as the government are prepared to give them) of the State's transport policy are at www.transport21.ie

Sea Sharp

I'd have to ask where have you been for the past eighteen months given this has been in the public domain for that length of time!

So it's probably safe to assume that this topic has been discussed to death and I should have used the 'search' function. My bad.

strassenwolf

KC61 wrote:

Anyhow, the full details (insofar as the government are prepared to give them) of the State's transport policy are at www.transport21.ie

There's also a poster here called Transport21 Fan who you could PM. I'd imagine he knows all about it.

paulm17781

Platform11 have a lot of info at http://platform11.org/transport21/

popebenny16

It's ok, O/P. The search function dosnt work here at the mo. Havent looked a wikipedia, but as usaul beware of anything on it because you can add anything you want.

Oh, and that isnt a Metro out in the West. To be fair to the RPA they keep saying it isnt, but the pesky aul government keep on insisting that it is.

trellheim

If it's not a metro what is it ? An S-Bahn ?

aliveandkicking

trellheim wrote:

If it's not a metro what is it ? An S-Bahn ?

It's a Luas line named Metro West to make it sound better

murphaph

trellheim wrote:

If it's not a metro what is it ? An S-Bahn ?

....if you mean Strassenbahn then yes.

Rineanna

aliveandkicking wrote:

It's a Luas line named Metro West to make it sound better

Well, not really. It's a bit more than a Luas. It's in between light-rail and and heavy-rail in terms of capacity. A 'Light-Metro' is what it has been coined as. A couple of other cities have a similar system, such as Porto.

Zoney

From what I gather, the whole Metro is just Luas by another name, albeit with underground sections.

As such, I'm skeptical that it will be fit for purpose. Luas is really not even designed with enough capacity to cope with the future passenger volumes on the existing Red and Green lines! (The extensions will surely prove disasterous for having a service one can rely on) A proper Metro ("tube", "underground", etc.) can transport far more passengers than the Luas (a tram system) is capable of doing. The Luas constraints are not solely the vehicles, platform length, etc. but more importantly the electrical supply for more traffic.

aliveandkicking

Rineanna wrote:

Well, not really. It's a bit more than a Luas. It's in between light-rail and and heavy-rail in terms of capacity. A 'Light-Metro' is what it has been coined as. A couple of other cities have a similar system, such as Porto.

Metro North is what you would call a 'Light Metro' but Metro West is very much a Luas line. Metro West will not have the same level of segregation or capacity as Metro North. You will barely notice a difference between the Red Luas line and the so called Metro West.