Dublin - Metrolink (Swords to Charlemont only)

Yes it's the 5th metro line in Milan. Milan has 3 airports, although Linate is the nearest to the city. It never had a Metro connection until now. Malpensa has a train station but it's an hour to Milano Centrale.

Let's give wee Dublin a break - we're not the only big city in Europe without a Metro despite this being mentioned frequently!

Warsaw has a decent raíl link. Trains every 15 mins i think.

I'd bite their hands off.

I hate the way we always compare ourselves to other countries, such as such has this so we should, this place doesn't so we don't need it.

Why can't, we as a nation want and strive for things that are worthwhile and beneficial for the greater good and the future prosperity of the country as a whole. We constantly sell ourselves short and are made feel bad for wanting to better ourselves, both at individual and national level.

Looking externally to set standards is a positive. That's why we've achieved a better standard of living than most other countries in the world and that's also why inward looking countries like the USA, Russia and increasingly the UK are in decline. Ireland's recent infrastructure woes are largely connected to our past inability to look beyond the anglosphere for a comparison during the thatcherist/regan era. Hopefully those days are done

Ireland is much more of a basket case than Italy. They actually get things done there.

Yeah clearly he's never been to Italy.

Anyone who has, has certainly experienced the long queues of people with buckets, in numerous towns, waiting to manually pump water out of the ground.

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There is another paywalled opinion piece about Metrolink on the IT website which was published this morning. The article is for subscribers only. It is titled "Metrolink will lay waste in the City Centre but won't integrate City Transportation".

I know from some of you will say that the title of the opinion column is probably very stupid.

However can anyone read what this opinion piece is saying about on the subject of Metrolink today as I'm very interested in hearing the details. TIA.

He has form- I remember when the motorway network was being built he opposed it tooth and nail from his ivory tower in south Dublin. He’s an absolute oppose everything merchant but typical of the Irish times “I’m alright jack” elite

Some of his criticisms are valid, specifically the bonkers location of Stephen's Green station. But the rest of it is just anti-metro nonsense. And in the article he parrots the lie that a station box was built under the Mater hospital.

Pretty sure the station box was in fact just a retaining wall that would facilitate a station in the future.

He's discussing it here

>An extensive Luas network would be more economical & less damaging.

So he thinks a surface level light rail system won't destroy Dublin, but an underground one will. Also luas sharing road with everyone else doesn't solve any mass transit problems. I don't understand why the Irish Times insist on giving these people unquestioned access to their paper, they could at the very least provide a counter point to these opinion pieces from people with a track record of opposing everything.

I mentioned the piece to my parents earlier, they buy the times, 'oh the metro to the airport' was the reply. Away from this thread I wonder how much damage these opinion pieces cause to public opinion on the prospect of large infrastructure projects. They set a bad narrative from the offset which then gets refreshed every few months.

Really need someone from NTA proactively pushing these projects.

On a side note, I've no idea how this project will be on target, a company I do work for are waiting on planning which is in aBp and heard during week that they are only processing Q1 2021 appeals at present, if true the country is f@#ked.