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If you had €5m

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  • 22-04-2003 11:40pm
    #1
    Victor
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    If you had €5m, what public transport changes would you implement?

    Note:
    a bus costs about €100,000
    a DART / Suburban train car €1,000,000
    a simple suburban train station (on level ground, with site available) €500,000
    a simple foot bridge (complete) €100,000
    a taxi (complete) €30,000
    convert a level crossing to a separated crossing €1,000,000+


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    embraer170
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    Doesn't €100,000 seem like very little for a bus?

    Anyway, I'd but a fleet of 40+ new buses to improve Cork's currently pathetic public transport. I don't even live there but it always strikes me the bus service is poor compared to similarly sized European cities.

    40 more buses wouldn't be much but at least they'd be a start.

    Jer


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    sligoliner
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    use the €5 million as a security payment to lease 30-50 railcars from a leasing agent such asw Porterbrook or Angle Trains and collect fares from the pasengers to service the leasing agreement - just like EVERY OTHER RAILWAY OPERATOR IN EUROPE DOES EXCEPT IRISH RAIl...oh no, they have to go out a tender, order and wait for new untested trains take three years to deliver.

    Or they could buy seconhand units from the UK (virgin have loads of recently refurbished mk111 coaches and move the wheels out a few inches so they can run on Irish railways.

    Loads of trains could be brought to Ireland and in service in a few weeks for less than €5 million - the way IE do things is not the normal way. Nobody else buys trains anymore.


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    commuterised
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    If I had €5million do you think I would spend it on public transport, I think not!


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    Borzoi
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    Spend the €100k on Porterstown station, and the rest on rollong stock for that line, all so I can get the train to work.

    Oh, might as well move Broombridge station closer to work and put in a new footbridge to suit.

    Nice:D


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    sligoliner
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    >Oh, might as well move Broombridge station closer to work and >put in a new footbridge to suit.

    are you sure about this?

    http://www.platform11.org/vandals.html


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    Borzoi
    Registered Users Posts: 2,876 ✭✭✭Borzoi


    Originally posted by sligoliner
    >Oh, might as well move Broombridge station closer to work and >put in a new footbridge to suit.

    are you sure about this?

    I only work her, I don't own it. Besides closer to here is further for the scumbags to walk


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    Victor
    Registered Users Posts: 78,282 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Personally, I would go for:

    A station on Grange road in Baldoyle (northern suburban / DART) - €500,000.
    A station at Merrion Gates (DART) - €500,000.
    Build platform 8 at Connolly Station (at turntable / water tank and over CERT car park) and create an exit onto Seville Row - €3,000,000.
    Provide 10 buses to provide a direct link between Charlemont Mall Luas station and Heuston Station €1,000,000.


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