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Light Rail for Cork gets the go-ahead...

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  • #32
    Hotblack Desiato
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 37,335 ✭✭✭✭Hotblack Desiato


    Del.Monte wrote: »
    Some good news for Cork at last.

    An engineering firm has been appointed to identify route options and develop initial designs for the proposed €1bn Cork light rail system.

    https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40028948.html

    That's just crayoning, it's not giving the go-ahead to anything.

    Us Dubliners are well used to endless rounds of proposals which never get built.

    I'm partial to your abracadabra,

    I'm raptured by the joy of it all.



  • #33
    TheBoyConor
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    Exactly. It is not any sort of significant design. It is just fag box design.
    I will eat my hat if I ever see a Luas in Cork.

    We have been hearing stories about Blarney station re-opening since before I was born. All sorts of proposals made over the years.
    What is the full history of the Blarney station proposals?


  • #34
    River Suir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭River Suir


    TheBoyConor wrote: »
    Exactly. It is not any sort of significant design. It is just fag box design.
    I will eat my hat if I ever see a Luas in Cork.

    We have been hearing stories about Blarney station re-opening since before I was born. All sorts of proposals made over the years.
    What is the full history of the Blarney station proposals?

    Id like to ask, what motivates people to post so passionately against the concept of railways? Is it a uniquely Irish thing?


  • #35
    TheBoyConor
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,292 ✭✭✭TheBoyConor


    I think it is their history of unreliability and inconvenience of use. You'd want to go somewhere and take the train. Oh, cancelled and if you're lucky you're on a bus transfer that takes twice as long to reach its destination.
    Then it is always miles from where you actually want to go.

    Usually you are just better off driving the car if you have one.

    I think it is a rather irish thing.


  • #36
    River Suir
    Closed Accounts Posts: 71 ✭✭River Suir


    TheBoyConor wrote: »
    I think it is their history of unreliability and inconvenience of use. You'd want to go somewhere and take the train. Oh, cancelled and if you're lucky you're on a bus transfer that takes twice as long to reach its destination.
    Then it is always miles from where you actually want to go.

    Usually you are just better off driving the car if you have one.

    I think it is a rather irish thing.

    Yes its unique to Ireland in my experience!


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  • #37
    TheBoyConor
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    Station staff that look at you like you've ten heads if you ask them a question. They might grunt some sort of a response at you.


  • #38
    IE 222
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,670 ✭✭✭IE 222


    TheBoyConor wrote: »
    What new lines have been built outside the Pale?
    None. The WRC or Midlton is not a new line, it's just reopeneing and derelict line. not the same thing.



    I don't think the cork Luas will happen. There will be too many objections and if there is any whiff of CPO for people's gardens, then it is a dead duck.


    As for the heavy rail between Kent and Mahon? Lol. Have you got a temperature? That is the stuff of a fevered dream.
    If you are talking about it going out the passage railway then that is a non runner as it is a greenway now, a hugely popular amenity in fact that is being refurbished and enhanced soon.

    Well given nearly every town in Ireland once had a railway line any new lines will most likely reuse the previous routes once the land is still available.


  • #39
    IE 222
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    Some day motorways just won't cut it for them anymore.


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