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Where would you like to see next LUAS line/extension?
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23-09-2016 10:53am#1
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Here's my vague impression of which parts of Dublin and surroundings are covered by what I'd call frequent, high-quality PT services (I'd put Luas and DART in this bucket out of what we have), with the inclusion of the potential electrified Maynooth line (presuming that bumps up frequencies):
Very rough, but the shaded areas are intended to show areas that are within a 15 minute drive of a Park and Ride facility (most of the DART stations, a handful of Luas stations), or within a 15/20 minute walk of the stations of, one of those services. Without the Maynooth line, you can see how dismally served the north west portion of the Dublin area is (even with the addition of that service, very few of the stations offer car parking).
And the problem is that a lot of that land is being developed as new residential areas, without any consideration of how people living there are going to get to work. Thus - housing crisis deepens.
What we need:
+ Metro North, no ifs or buts - Swords isn't shown on my map, but it's outside of any of the catchment areas mentioned.
+ A very short extension of the Luas Green Line (could probably do with a renaming to a new line colour for the northern half if this happened) from Broombridge through Finglas, heading up along Cappagh Road just past the M50, and then ending in a massive Park and Ride facility at Blanchardstown.
+ Maynooth DART and provision of actual Park and Ride facilities along this line (at the very least sharing with the Blanchardstown Luas PNR mentioned above)
Nice to have:
+ Luas Lucan to cover the 9 o'clock gap in the 'clockface'.
+ Something for Terenure and the R114/115 corridor.0 -
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Here's my vague impression of which parts of Dublin and surroundings are covered by what I'd call frequent, high-quality PT services (I'd put Luas and DART in this bucket out of what we have), with the inclusion of the potential electrified Maynooth line (presuming that bumps up frequencies):
Very rough, but the shaded areas are intended to show areas that are within a 15 minute drive of a Park and Ride facility (most of the DART stations, a handful of Luas stations), or within a 15/20 minute walk of the stations of, one of those services. Without the Maynooth line, you can see how dismally served the north west portion of the Dublin area is (even with the addition of that service, very few of the stations offer car parking).
And the problem is that a lot of that land is being developed as new residential areas, without any consideration of how people living there are going to get to work. Thus - housing crisis deepens.
What we need:
+ Metro North, no ifs or buts - Swords isn't shown on my map, but it's outside of any of the catchment areas mentioned.
+ A very short extension of the Luas Green Line (could probably do with a renaming to a new line colour for the northern half if this happened) from Broombridge through Finglas, heading up along Cappagh Road just past the M50, and then ending in a massive Park and Ride facility at Blanchardstown.
+ Maynooth DART and provision of actual Park and Ride facilities along this line (at the very least sharing with the Blanchardstown Luas PNR mentioned above)
Nice to have:
+ Luas Lucan to cover the 9 o'clock gap in the 'clockface'.
+ Something for Terenure and the R114/115 corridor.
Good map but it would be worth seeing separate walking and driving maps. Many people don't have the option to drive so a walking map would be good. That would make the coverage a lot narrower.
And surely at least some of the N11 corridor should be included? Continuous bus lanes with probably the highest frequency bus services of any corridor?0 -
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Nice map.
Perhaps a steam tram out to Blessington from Terenure ( rats where's my time machine
) but I take the point.
Very little room to stick a tram line templeogue/terenure into town without huge disruption and cutting into a bunch of important bus lanes
As for a DART Spur you'd need a savage re-engineering of the Northern line to fit the services in for it to make it better than the bus.
MN recognized that Swords needs to be served as well so its actually correct to be metro !0 -
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Nice map.
Perhaps a steam tram out to Blessington from Terenure ( rats where's my time machine ) but I take the point.
Very little room to stick a tram line templeogue/terenure into town without huge disruption and cutting into a bunch of important bus lanes
As for a DART Spur you'd need a savage re-engineering of the Northern line to fit the services in for it to make it better than the bus.
MN recognized that Swords needs to be served as well so its actually correct to be metro !
Terenure Luas will never happen overground. To expensive and requires an awful lot CPOs and other land purchases in some of the most expensive parts of the city. More chance of it running underground if anything. Maybe if tunnelling of Dart and airport / Swords takes place it may not be seen as such of non runner cost wise.
Northern line needs upgrading without the spur been added so would be cost effective including a spur with these works. The spur needs to serve Swords as well.0 -
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