Cycling paths....

K4t

alongside railway lines would be awesome. Awesome!

I wish we had money.:(

Any pet projects you would love to see implemented if/when the governemnt finances start flowing again in the future?

af_thefragile

Magna rail...
All the way across dublin.
Lucan to city centre in 5mins!!

Ed_

K4t wrote: »

alongside railway lines would be awesome. Awesome!

I wish we had money.:(

Any pet projects you would love to see implemented if/when the governemnt finances start flowing again in the future?

I would love to see motorways and railway lines connecting all parts of the country.

jumpguy

I thought about this as well and can't stop saying it, isn't it a pity a man can no longer walk/run/cycle anywhere far with road safety issues. I'd love to cycle to Dublin.

Don't think it'd ever happen, if we had a bigger boom than the Celtic Tiger.

MizzLolly

...and you'd still get the ignorant eejits who cycle on footpaths. :mad:

My name is URL

af_thefragile wrote: »

Magna rail...
All the way across dublin.
Lucan to city centre in 5mins!!

Not like the ones in Ogdenville, North Haverbrook, and Brockway?

Biggins

More trains cars would be a good start.
The Dundalk to Dublin run in the morning and the evening times, are just squashed cattle carts at the moment!

mikemac

Biggins wrote: »

More trains cars would be a good start.
The Dundalk to Dublin run in the morning and the evening times, are just squashed cattle carts at the moment!

Think that's bad!
You'd want to see the Maynooth line. :eek:
People faint on it very often. On a warm Friday, you're guranteed a few people will faint.

Biggins

mikemac wrote: »

Think that's bad!
You'd want to see the Maynooth line. :eek:
People faint on it very often. On a warm Friday, you're guranteed a few people will faint.

Crikey - thats bad!

admiralofthefleet

some of the closed railway around cork has been turned into a cycle lane

Halla Basin

I think we should have this sort of gigantic tower in Dublin City Centre and after about a hundred metres it branches off into hundreds of smaller towers which are like twenty kilometres long and then branch off again into hundreds of other much smaller towers that are only like a kilometre long and they taper off into the thickness of a pen and they're all completely prehensile so they can reach into a town from miles away and pick up dozens of commuters at once and swing them into the city centre in a matter of seconds.

Biggins

Halla Basin wrote: »

I think we should have this sort of gigantic tower in Dublin City Centre and after about a hundred metres it branches off into hundreds of smaller towers which are like twenty kilometres long and then branch off again into hundreds of other much smaller towers that are only like a kilometre long and they taper off into the thickness of a pen and they're all completely prehensile so they can reach into a town from miles away and pick up dozens of commuters at once and swing them into the city centre in a matter of seconds.

Sounds mad! LOL :pac:

Halla Basin

Biggins wrote: »

Sounds mad! LOL :pac:

But it must be done.

Alternatively there could be a super-railway. You see the big restriction on trains (especially the DART and Luas and all that) is that they have to stop for passengers and then spend ages accelerating again. But what if the train never stopped moving? Yes, it would be located inside a vacuum cylinder and it could reach huge speeds because of the lack of air resistance. You would board the train by first hopping into the "Accelero-buggy" which will be a small one-carriage cart which, over a 100 metre track parallel to the super train, will accelerate to match the train's speed and then the passengers will be quickly pushed in through a pressure seal in the second before the terminus ends.

Donny5

F35s for the Aer Corps!

mikemac

Halla Basin wrote: »

Yes, it would be located inside a vacuum cylinder and it could reach huge speeds because of the lack of air resistance.

Vacuum powered train in Dublin? Ok, your idea is all futuristic but all the same, it's closer to the truth then you realise

The Atmospheric Railway 1843 -1854

Interesting read if you're in local history

**Timbuk2**

Halla Basin wrote: »

But it must be done.

Alternatively there could be a super-railway. You see the big restriction on trains (especially the DART and Luas and all that) is that they have to stop for passengers and then spend ages accelerating again. But what if the train never stopped moving? Yes, it would be located inside a vacuum cylinder and it could reach huge speeds because of the lack of air resistance. You would board the train by first hopping into the "Accelero-buggy" which will be a small one-carriage cart which, over a 100 metre track parallel to the super train, will accelerate to match the train's speed and then the passengers will be quickly pushed in through a pressure seal in the second before the terminus ends.

Well you're getting my vote over fcuking Fianna Fáil anyway!

Blowfish

K4t wrote: »

alongside railway lines would be awesome. Awesome!

They have actually started doing this.

jumpguy wrote: »

I thought about this as well and can't stop saying it, isn't it a pity a man can no longer walk/run/cycle anywhere far with road safety issues. I'd love to cycle to Dublin.

Don't think it'd ever happen, if we had a bigger boom than the Celtic Tiger.

The dangers of cycling are greatly exaggerated, you shouldn't really have any issue cycling around the country.

Victor

MizzLolly wrote: »

...and you'd still get the ignorant eejits who cycle on footpaths. :mad:

Cars on foot paths kill many more than bikes on footpath.