Tractor Tunnels Under Dublin?

ClovenHoof · 23-09-2015 9:12pm #1

I think I figured out how to finally get Irish politicians/civil servants to build an underground rail system in our capital city.

Planners must devise a network of SubBOREENS where silage bales can be moved effectively though the city to the suburbs using tractors like in Mayo. Lights can be installed overhead so a central grass path can grow down the middle just like in Kerry.

Then Dublin will finally have a single underground rail line that hundreds of comparable sized cities all over the world already have vast networks of.

All it takes is a Richie Cunningham song and a dream and Dublin will have an adequate underground rail transport system.

We can win the Web Summit back from the Libonians and their underground metro Boyos!!!

Up Roscommon!

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 23-09-2015 9:13pm

Ok.

Beasty · 23-09-2015 9:14pm

Must be an EU grant available to pay for something like this

Son Of A Vidic · 23-09-2015 9:14pm

I'm having what the OP is having.

Sunnyisland · 23-09-2015 9:16pm

Good play OP jolly good play.

PARlance · 23-09-2015 9:16pm

ClovenHoof wrote: »

All it takes is a Richie Cunningham song and a dream....

HAPPY DAYS

Will the Fonz be singing it with him.

tomwaterford · 23-09-2015 9:17pm

ClovenHoof wrote: »

Then Dublin will finally have a single underground rail line that hundreds of comparable sized cities all over the world already have vast networks of.

Could you even name 5 cities in the world with populations well below 2 million who have vast networks of underground railways???

Dublin is nowhere as big as its imagined!!

* though there is already an underground rail line in dublin

ClovenHoof · 23-09-2015 9:21pm

tomwaterford wrote: »

Could you even name 5 cities in the world with populations well below 2 million who have vast networks of underground railways???

Dublin is nowhere as big as its imagined!!

* though there is already an underground rail line in dublin

Google is your friend oh Fine Gael one...

There and DOZENS AND DOZENS in Europe alone. Believe it or not.

Reiver · 23-09-2015 9:22pm

Sounds great. But just once during your thought process did sanity appear for a moment to remind you, have you thought about the C.H.U.Ds??!!!!!

tomwaterford · 23-09-2015 9:24pm

ClovenHoof wrote: »

Google is your friend oh Fine Gael one...

There and DOZENS AND DOZENS in Europe alone. Believe it or not.

Bahahaha...I'm not Fine Gael :pac:

I doubt if there's many cities with population of Dublin in the world with these vast networks of underground railways you speak of

Summer wind · 23-09-2015 9:26pm

I've got a brand new combine harvester and I'll give you the key:)

ClovenHoof · 23-09-2015 9:29pm

tomwaterford wrote: »

Bahahaha...I'm not Fine Gael :pac:

I doubt if there's many cities with population of Dublin in the world with these vast networks of underground railways you speak of

You should be a TD in charge of Dublin infrastructure. You already have the level of Paddywackery ability and staggering ignorance my friend.

For Forks Sake · 23-09-2015 9:29pm

Corvus Maximus wrote: »

I'm having what the OP is having.

Half a bottle of home-made poitín and a go of his cousin?

Reiver · 23-09-2015 9:30pm

For Forks Sake wrote: »

Half a bottle of home-made poitín and a go of his cousin?

He's an inside man for the mole people.

Junkyard Tom · 23-09-2015 9:30pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1ct5yEuVY

Skylinehead · 23-09-2015 9:32pm

tomwaterford wrote: »

Could you even name 5 cities in the world with populations well below 2 million who have vast networks of underground railways???

Dublin is nowhere as big as its imagined!!

* though there is already an underground rail line in dublin

Dublin needs it though, regardless of how "big" the city is.

Summer wind · 23-09-2015 9:38pm

If they build it we will come:)

Junkyard Tom · 23-09-2015 9:38pm

Skylinehead wrote: »

Dublin needs it though, regardless of how "big" the city is.

Bogota's (Population 7,000,000) Bus Rapid Transit system.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU6ImWY4IBc

Skylinehead · 23-09-2015 9:44pm

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

Bogota's (Population 7,000,000) Bus Rapid Transit system.

Good for them I guess.

What does Bogota have to do with Dublin?

Reiver · 23-09-2015 9:47pm

One word.

C.H.U.D.S!!!!!!!

Junkyard Tom · 23-09-2015 9:49pm

Skylinehead wrote: »

Good for them I guess.

What does Bogota have to do with Dublin?

A BRT would be much cheaper and do the job just fine.

CASE CLOSED.

end of the road · 23-09-2015 9:52pm

the fact this vital piece of infrastructure for the people of ireland has been scrapped is an insult. dublin and ireland have been sold short again. there is no redesign, its gone probably for good. you cannot penny pinch on a project like this

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

A BRT would be much cheaper and do the job just fine.

CASE CLOSED.

wrong. not case closed at all. a BRT wouldn't do the job just fine. cheeper is its only advantage. BRT is a waste of money, it cannot handle the capacity required by the corridor where metro/dart north is proposed to run. dart underground will also help capacity on the suburban lines out of connolly among serving new areas and opening up more journey opportunities. there is no excuse not to support proper investment in your capital city, which these would be. an investment for the future that will benefit us all going forward into the future

vicwatson · 23-09-2015 9:58pm

Better off with a Richie Kavanagh song op, did ya ever get a ride on a tractor like

whupdedo · 23-09-2015 10:16pm

end of the road wrote: »

the fact this vital piece of infrastructure for the people of ireland has been scrapped is an insult. dublin and ireland have been sold short again. there is no redesign, its gone probably for good. you cannot penny pinch on a project like this

wrong. not case closed at all. a BRT wouldn't do the job just fine. cheeper is its only advantage. BRT is a waste of money, it cannot handle the capacity required by the corridor where metro/dart north is proposed to run. dart underground will also help capacity on the suburban lines out of connolly among serving new areas and opening up more journey opportunities. there is no excuse not to support proper investment in your capital city, which these would be. an investment for the future that will benefit us all going forward into the future

No , I think you'll find you're wrong

Junkyard Tom · 23-09-2015 10:35pm

end of the road wrote: »

wrong. not case closed at all.

I think you, young man, have been watching too many Thomas The Tank Engine programmes and are very tired.

Now off to bed with you you wee scamp.

CASE CLOSED.

end of the road · 23-09-2015 10:57pm

whupdedo wrote: »

No , I think you'll find you're wrong

no, i'l think you'l find i'm right

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

I think you, young man, have been watching too many Thomas The Tank Engine programmes and are very tired.

Now off to bed with you you wee scamp.

CASE CLOSED.

no i just live in the real world and realize dublin needs a proper transport system. on the metro/dart north corridor, a BRT or even a luas just doesn't cut it

whupdedo · 23-09-2015 11:27pm

end of the road wrote: »

no, i'l think you'l find i'm right

no i just live in the real world and realize dublin needs a proper transport system. on the metro/dart north corridor, a BRT or even a luas just doesn't cut it

What blithering idiocy is this

Junkyard Tom · 23-09-2015 11:32pm

end of the road wrote: »

no i just live in the real world and realize dublin needs a proper transport system. on the metro/dart north corridor, a BRT or even a luas just doesn't cut it

I have a PHD in Mass Transit Economics from the Lycée Du Georges Pompidou in Madrid and have studied many mass transit systems up to, and including, spending hours recreating contemporary bus shelter scenes with watercolours.

I can assure you that Dublin doesn't need an underground. If anything Dublin needs a jolly good scolding.

whupdedo · 23-09-2015 11:33pm

^^^ Hard to argue with doctor junkyard

Pink Lemons · 23-09-2015 11:34pm

Junkyard Tom wrote: »

I have a PHD in Mass Transit Economics from the Lycée Du Georges Pompidou in Madrid and have studied many mass transit systems up to, and including, spending hours recreating contemporary bus shelter scenes with watercolours.

I can assure you that Dublin doesn't need an underground. If anything Dublin needs a jolly good scolding.

'Twas far from Lycée Du Georges Pompidou we were reared

Junkyard Tom · 23-09-2015 11:45pm

Pink Lemons wrote: »

'Twas far from Lycée Du Georges Pompidou we were reared

That's correct Madame. As unlikely as it might seem my beginnings were really rather humble. I was born in the wagon of travelling show.

dublinman1990 · 24-09-2015 10:36pm

Merciful Jesus. A lot of these posts that are against this project is absolutely astounding in it's own ignorance.

Can I ask you guys a really hard question for those are against this project not to over complicate yourselves even further with this debate.

Would you ever think of enduring a train journey on the DART in which the bloody thing would be just 2 carriages long going from Bray to Howth or Malahide to Greystones while being a commuter during the peak/off-peak times in and around it's network?

If you say yes; why would you think that would be a feasible option for going on transport in Dublin for yourselves or even for other members of your families?

Otherwise if you said no; then why would you think that option is a bad idea for you if you tried to live around Dublin and it's surrounding hinterland counties?

From my experience now I have been in these 2 carriages DART a fair few times. I have to say that it was one of the most stressful experiences of my life. I would never want to endure that type of hell ever in the rest of my life. In saying that, it was not the type of people that were boarding these very short trains. It was the composition and the expectation of those train journeys that made them a nightmare for myself and the many other passengers around me.

A lot of these passengers overtime had the common sense at that point not to use the DART for the time being and use the bus for their journey in & out of Dublin instead.

It was a common sense approach that the overwhelming message coming from the masses of commuters at that time was not to have shorter trains in a capital city like Dublin. Yes; passenger numbers for those using the DART have increased but those increases in numbers were in effect straying out from other scheduled DART trains from within the network. I had been in one of those longer trains in which it was an eight car train going to Greystones. While I was inside that train was unnecessarily full and very hot. When I was on that journey stuck like a sardine with the other passengers there was a very large cobweb growing right above me which was very rare in a train like the DART. I haven't seen any other cobweb on any other DART train at any other point in time.

There was a similar situation outside of Dublin with the Intercity when IE had tried to either increase or decrease the number of carriages in each train. There had a number of issues in one of the other threads in C&T that a small number of people in Ireland would be collapsing on full main line trains in where these situations could have been preventable. There is no excuse for that type of situation to happen on Ireland's main railway lines. People could also take the decision to go on a bus and forget about the overwhelming expense of going on a train in where it could be easily avoided.

DART U was trying to easily win the argument for it's own existence in the lives of it's future Dubliners. I would give the title of DART U along with MN and MW as dream projects. They are not meant to be given the impression of being grandiose vanity projects from a person with not having a sensible brain in their head. These types of projects are essential for the economy to grow and function properly and be a sustainable growth of the nation's state coffers.

The types who say boring a tunnel is going to be an non-existent reality are completely deluding themselves as it's high time that Dublin should become a modern city for the 21st century.

Reiver · 25-09-2015 12:09am

You fear to go into those tunnels. The Dwarves delved too greedily and too deep. You know what they awoke in the darkness of Khazad-dum... shadow and flame.

Tractor Tunnels Under Dublin?

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