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Cork or Sligo to Dublin in 45 mins.

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    #32
    Judge
    Registered Users Posts: 507 ✭✭✭Judge


    As far as I know, the French will only consider a TGV line to be economically viable if it serves at least two centres of population of at least 500,000 people each. On that basis, it would require densification of population in Belfast and Cork for a high speed line to be justifiable.

    In fact, given that the motorway network is almost complete, it would make more economic sense to get rid of the Enterprise and use the extra capacity that would bring to the Northern Line to improve the DART/Commuter service. This would benefit far more people than the Intercity service does and would be cheaper than the Interconnector.


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    westtip
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    At non peak times I reckon Lucan to Oranmore will be doable in an hour and a half when the motorway is fully open in considerable comfort -its probably just over 100 miles at a steady 75 mph, it would actually be 1 hour 20, can't ever see us having trains of the speeds mentioned - but then again they might gete them on the WRC!


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    #34
    Victor
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    OP, the French high speed network after more than 25 years. http://images.french-property.com/9/5/0/cms950_o.jpg The thick lines are high speed lines (LGV - Ligne à Grand Vitesse). The thinner lines are main lines on which TGVs continue.

    Now compare the size http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=50.148746,-7.338867&spn=20.998241,57.084961&z=5and population for France (62m) http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/France_population_density_40pc.png and Ireland (4m). http://www.irishtimes.com/timeseye/whoweare/poster.pdf (note the colour sclaes are different).
    tech2 wrote: »
    Also the M6!! Yeah I would like to see the limit changed to 130 on the inter urban routes eventually. The roads are well capable of that speed.
    Are the cars and drivers?


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