Metrolink - Alternative Routes - See post one for restrictions.

The Venus Project

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123902998#Comment_123902998

Another well explained post.

Thank you one and all, and excuse the defensiveness yesterday.

orangerhyme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123902998#Comment_123902998

That's exactly where I'd have the next Metro line also.

Tallaght to Clongriffin.

In Copenhagen they added more lines so it's not pie in the sky to expect another one.

By the time the Metrolink is complete, we'll have a bigger population than Denmark.

As long as our economy remains relatively stable, anything is possible.

I wonder if they had to choose between this new Metro line or Dart Underground, which would they choose?

OisinCooke

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123905099#Comment_123905099

I would hope and like to think that they would choose DU, (and FourNorth - the two would probably be similarly priced to a second full length metro line, in fact maybe cheaper) as it provides the most return on investment, effectively separating the existing DART network (which essentially all hones in on Connolly) into two super high capacity and high frequent metro lines (Hazelhatch to Drogheda, and Maynooth/M3 to Bray/Greystones, intersecting at Pearse). However I would like to think that the more we build, the more we will realise that projects like these don’t necessarily need to be once-in-a-generation, and hopefully there won’t necessarily have to be a choice to made between projects (not on a generational time scale anyway)

orangerhyme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123905117#Comment_123905117

The Dart U and 4N benefits more people but a new Metro line is maybe sexier.

I wonder will they have another go at upgrading the Green Luas to Metro once Metrolink starts construction.

I bet it could be done in a year with good planning which isn't too much of a disruption.

I think people would accept that.

In 10 years time, if the Metrolink, Dart+, Finglas Luas, M20 and Children's Hospital (that's a joke) are all completed, that frees up a lot of money and workers so maybe DU, 4N and additional Metro line are all possible.

orangerhyme

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123905117#Comment_123905117

Our tax revenue is so high, anything's possible really.

Our total workforce is nearly 3 million people.

In the 80s and 90s it was just over a million.

On top of that there's the huge corporate tax revenue.

We're decades behind where we should be in terms of infrastructure.