Waterford North Quays

Still nothing from Harcourt.

20+ years of dereliction.

I see the Minister for Public Expenditure was down there yesterday, and I also heard the CEO of Irish Rail talking about passengers being able to use the new train station by June 2026.

Two I believe as it’s going to be a dual track passing through the new station.

What sort of future rail demand are you anticipating…..?

...in order to truly meet our environmental targets and requirements, and meet our future needs, we need to significantly increase our rail network to do so, in order to provide a real alternative than the private car, we havent invested or expanded our rail network significantly for decades, so much so, we re now way behind most other advanced European countries.....

...yup, lets keep things as they are, as im sure, it ll all be grand!

...our current lack of modern public transport definitely isnt holding us back, definitely not!

Country is infested with this can't do nothing about nothing mentality. It's a disease. Some much energy spent on finding reasons not to do a thing.

It's why this county will never amount to much.

The Greens only way of meeting our environmental targets is by putting the kibosh on critical infrastructure investment like the airport.

I just simply hate this negative destroy, deconstruct, and disassemble attitude when we should be innovating, investing and invigorating!

Outside of cycle lanes and ferrys they are absolutely clueless!

Correct. Small minds and small solutions are not suitable for big problems.

Fair enough.

Setting Harcourt aside (which increasingly looks like reality) the only development left on the table is the publicly funded transport hub and a footbridge over to it.

I'm saying a train station at the end of single-track unelectrified branch line won't amount to much. It's scale will be moderate at best and certainly not a statement piece in terms of architecture or infrastructure. Probably not a nice place to spend time in. My understanding is it will be coupled together with a bus and coach interchange - so a positive there. It is also my understanding that private operators will not have access to the site - which is absolute madness.

Essentially after all the photo-ops, renders, Saudis, a tranche of Ministers etc. etc. we will be left with a footbridge over to a half-ar$ed bus station - with a few trains tagged on. That silly little shuttle bus they show in the renders will soon be decommissioned - through lacklustre footfall.

You're confusing likely outcomes based on reasoned suppositions with a blanket 'can't be done' mentality. One is situational the other is a toxic mind-set that infests the fabric of society.

Care to elaborate

I am hopeful that Harcourt is still working away on a plan for this, we know the landscape is changing quickly for developers- interest rates, and a rapidly changing market for office and retail and cost of living squeeze. But the site is an exceptional opportunity and the magic formula is out there, as the city continues its demographic growth.

From a design perspective, I know many wish to see a slow, incremental build-out of the site- less likely to make a big, lasting mistake. From an economic standpoint, I obviously want the big leap forward.

Fingers crossed. Elsewhere in the city private developers are trying to shape up things, with little to no support from Govt.

Traffic is a nightmare. No point complaining to the WCCC. Skewed swapping two laned traffic cone madness. Queues @ random times. In both directions. Kids walking to school on the road at times. Surely it could have been better planned. Piecemeal @ best. Put it this way : it wouldnt happen if it twas on the Dunmore Road!

Does anyone have a recent render of what the train station will look like?