Irish rail to start Nenagh - Limerick commuter service

dmeehan

New city rail service after survey shows huge demand


IARNROD Eireann has announced plans to introduce a new rail commuter service from Nenagh to Limerick after a survey of potential commuters revealed that a massive 91pc were travelling to their nearest city by car.

The new service will not be in place until 2007.

Details of the rescheduled timetable and plans for the new commuter service were announced yesterday at a meeting with the Nenagh Rail Steering Committee (NRSC) held at the Nenagh Civic Offices.

The lack of a proper commuter rail service on the Ballybrophy to Limerick line has become more and more of an issue over the past number of years, according to the NRSC which was established following a public meeting in November 2004.

"What with rising fuel costs and environmental concerns it's about time that this Government moved away from its policy of motorway madness and invests in public transport," said Nenagh Councillor Virginia O'Dowd.



from today's Indo

dowlingm

apparently the train arrives mid-morning and leaves mid afternoon. Not so hot.

mikemac

Thats right. The train leaves Nenagh around 11 and leaves Limerick at 3:20.
Great it you want to have lunch in Limerick but useless for commuting to work.
Read somewhere that over 5000 people leave the area around Nenagh for Limerick everyday. College students would be a high proportion of these.

This is a perfect oppurtunity for the government to invest in public transport. If there was a good alternative many people would leave their cars and commute to Limerick.

Rail will always struggle in Nenagh though as its on the N7 and has an excellant bus service.

Beekeeper

"The train leaves Nenagh around 11 and leaves Limerick at 3:20."

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Some "commuter service" - totally worthless to 99.99% of the people in Nenagh. I cannot believe this was even annouced in a press release. Typical superficial rubbish being passed off as another public transport success. What kind of clueless morons think this is a major coup for public transport in the region! There is a major demand for a real commuter rail service in Nenagh, but this is just comical and pointless.

CIE trainsdriver unions having the final say with the timetable anybody???? :mad: :mad:

dmeehan

does anybody have a copy of the NEW timetable

i checked the existing one online. the first train from nenagh to Limerick, you have to go back to ballybrophy, change for limerick junction, and change again to go to limerick, :rolleyes: ffs

loyatemu

Beekeeper wrote:

"The train leaves Nenagh around 11 and leaves Limerick at 3:20."

:rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

Some "commuter service" - totally worthless to 99.99% of the people in Nenagh. I cannot believe this was even annouced in a press release.

it wasn't - that's the current service - the press story is about a proposed service that may start in 2007.