Luas Finglas

How many passengers does each line carry a day now? I can only really find pre pandemic numbers. Hybrid week is a lot more common now but yearly numbers are a good bit higher than pre covid which is good. Probably looking at close to 60 million this year? On top of daily ridership numbers than how many extra passengers are we looking at per day with Luas Finglas? I think someone mentioned before the northern line of the green line isn't as busy as the rest but surely this is to change.

The Luas extension will definitely be used. But I wouldn't be surprised to see plenty of people along the F1 route taking the bus instead. It'll be more direct to the city centre, even if it does go down the Whitworth Road.

Tbh, they should be utilizing the Finglas to Broombridge bus connections better than the current services.

Bus number 24

The budget for the HSE for 2025 is 26.9 Billion. Thats just for 2025. Once the metro is built, thats it, you have it.

It goes the back roads which is quicker more of the day lately. Even taxis that route

Have you ever considered emigration?

You appear to spend most of your life whining on two different forums about basically everything. You also seem to want a government so right wing it will never get elected here.

I believe Hungary is nice this time of year.

48m for 2023 and I think close enough to 50/50 between both lines. Some inflation since I’m sure but capacity is such an issue at this stage so maybe 55m.

Peak passengers over the four new stops is around 2.8k per the Business Case in 2035. The Line as a whole carries probably 70k on average a day so maybe another 12.5k-15k a day generated from this? So maybe 4m-4.5m more from these stops?

I’d guess that post this extension, Poolbeg, Lucan and capacity improvements (hopefully in the next decade) that we’ll be at around 85m Luas riders per annum.

With Metrolink at 50m (base case for 2035) and probably a doubling of existing DART/Commuter (the figures for this are not clear) from c.35m to 70m- we should be around 200m passengers per annum (up from around 85m today) taking a form of rail to traverse the city in the next decade.

That would be more than doubling the numbers. Conservatively I’d say these extra 120m will come from 50m bus passengers off the road from today, 40m from cars and the remainder general growth in the city population. Between Dublin Bus and Go Ahead they carry about 160m currently, I’d guess general growth will bring them back up to 130m from losing out to rail modal share. Including maybe another 20m or so who us BÉ and other provides to commute to work, buses will be around 150m, down from 180m today.

Overall share of PT by mode will move from about 2:1 in favour of buses today to more like 60:40 in favour of rail which would be an incredible shift in just a decade.

The majority of the route is uneventful but the St Margaret's road section from the roundabout on Finglas Road to Charlestown is a total tear down, re-align and rebuild. And indeed one that is long overdue, that road is a total mess. Basically a rural road that had a load of industrial unites thrown up on it and ad hoc junctions added, the stupid roundabout outside Lidl is a wonder to behold, how it doesn't have daily accidents I'll never know. This will be transformative for St Margaret's Road. Also Broombridge Road will see a dramatic change. An extension to Ikea would be nice but there are other priorities for luas, most of all we need a second city centre crossing in both the North-South and East-West directions.