LUAS Network + Future Expansion

Thank you! I figured it was about shuffling rolling stock, rather than providing service options. I know Green and Red would be very hard to mix and match, not just due to tram lengths: Green runs to a much tighter schedule than Red once out of the city centre, so trying to make space for Red trams in a stream of Green ones would just degrade service quality.

How do you become an ABP inspector?

What qualifications are required?

how many passengers do our 502's carry?

It is now a full 7 years since the last inch of rail was built in Dublin (The link-up opened in December 2017).

yes but you'd need a somewhat relevant undergrad to get that masters anyways

In a state awash with money and a massive infrastructure deficit, its beyond a disgrace…

Once the Lucan Luas, plus the various extensions are built, what would be the next line that would get built? Not another extension somehwhere surely?

That I couldn't tell you, the story Ive heard (though I can't remember where from, but it is supported by old articles I have seen) is that they were to hold 350-400 passengers, but oncer in service TII found that they could carry over 400.

But yea having been on my fare share of AM peak trams… I question the safety of that 400 number.

It could also be that the balance between seated and standing capacity is different on these new trams. I can't find interior pictures to get a reference, and the only reference I can find is that is seats 144 passengers from the article below. If that is true I think that would be a good bit more than the 502s, though I am not sure on the seating count of the 502s, or if the article is actually correct.

https://rollingstockworld.com/lrv/skoda-group-releases-the-world-longest-tram/

The next line to be built should be: (parts of it really should be metro standard from Ballyboden on in to CC- but anyway):

TALLAGHT (from the red line terminus at the square down to the N81 and east towards old bawn road

OLD BAWN ROAD- (continue south towards Firhouse road west)

THE OLD MILL- (P+R opportunity, local bus routes to feed into this stop, turn east towards M50 Firhouse jnct)

KILLINNINY ROAD 1 (at scholars pub)

KILLINNINY ROAD 2 (at junction of ballycullen road)

SCHOLARSTOWN ROAD (outside st colmcilles school)

BALLYBODEN WAY (near boden heath)

ROUNDABOUT AT BALLYBODEN WAY AND BALLYBODEN ROAD (The luas splits here and one leg heads up towards sandyford green line terminus via- TAYLORS LANE + GRANGE ROAD + BREHON FIELD ROAD + N31

the other leg heads up ballyboden road towards RATHFARNHAM CASTLE + TERENURE + HAROLDS X + CLANBRASSIL STREET+ PATRICK STREET+ CHRISTCHURCH+ LORD EDWARD STREET+ DAME STREET

I'd like to know how many people are on some of the Red Line Luas's I get on at Museum going in to town on a weekday morning or a Saturday Afternoon.

I bet it's a fair bit more than 358.

The red line is at its capacity limit between Hueston and the centre as it is.

For every tram you run Connolly to/from Lucan, would mean removing a tram Connolly to/from Tallaght/Citywest. So halving the capacity of an existing 15km alignment between Hueston and Tallaght/Citywest. This is not a good way to spend money on infrastructure.

And no amount of fiddling around with shuttle services can fix this: feeding two tram lines (Lucan and Tallaght) into a single section which is already at capacity in terms of trams per hour and passengers per tram at peak.

We need more capacity into and through the core, not more branches feeding into a single already congested/at capacity core alignment.

Any new Luas alignment coming from that direction needs to go through the centre of the city (in this case say via Thomas St, Dame St, Pearse St) to avoid canabalising earlier investment in tram infrastructure.

Dart underground, that's what's needed... its bend comprehension, with housing, climate and just in general the absolute disgrace, that is public transport on this country, how little is being done ...