Navan Rail Line

Won’t the DART spur need to be built anyways due to the TEN-T regulations or is there an option to opt-out?

first consultation opens tomorrow, will be there to ask lots of questions.
Being an M3 parkway user, I’m not jumping with joy on the route and location of stations. M3 route is already over capacity with the carriages full by Hansfield.

Location of the stations suggests they want high rail service usage at the expense of local congestion. If you can’t walk to the station you certainly won’t be able to drive to it, especially in Dunshaughlin and Navan. Looking at the map, residents in Johnstown would be better going to Kilmessan to catch the train

There is no town in Ireland "totally unsafe" for cyclists. Cycling on a road with no cycle lanes is something done safely across the country every day.

Of course the whole post is the usual it won't suit everyone perfectly so don't build it excuse.

Yawn… so lets not build it because it is not perfectly wrapped around your own personal requirements and expectations.

The main issue there is the capacity of the trains. Running a 3 or 4 piece ICR on some of those morning services just doesn't work. Irish Rail will tell you there isn't enough sets available to run anything else.

A week in and the line has met its first opposition. Call me cynical but didn't he only start this "nature reserve" in 2014, after it was known the railway would be through his land? Sounds like this was the plan from the start…

Hard to fell sorry for a man who has 650 hectares and doesn't even need to farm it.

The State needs to get on to the Brits to abolish all of this crap associated with our nation.

Is this land that was seized by a foreign power?

What would we need to pass. The lad can call himself baron but it means fuk all.

The rest of us don't have to call him that.

That seems to be the intention, according to the Irish Rail Engineer I spoke with

I attended the Irish Rail Navan Railway first consultation this afternoon in Navan.

The main points:

• satellite image is five years or more old, doesn’t show the new residential housing that has gone up east of Navan.
  at least 3/4 of Navan 40k population is east of the new train station. Most of them are commuters.
• There will be two level crossings, one on the Commons road and one on the Kells road. No level crossings between Navan Central and M3 Parkway.
• Terminus will be Spencer dock during peak hours and Connolly station off peak.
• Budget is only in place up to railway order is made.
• Traffic can enter Dunshaughlin via a spur road off the R125, but that station will charge for car parking, as will both Navan stations. Car park will be larger at Dunshaughlin to cater for Rathoath residents who are likely to use M3 Parkway.
• No footpaths link east Navan estates to the train station, it’s 41 minutes walk through wasteland to get to the station, according to Google.
• Focus is on carrying capacity rather than cater for cars travelling to the station.
• All four stations will be constructed simultaneously and the line will be done as one complete project as opposed to phases, which is interesting.

that’s correct, just stating the current issue that Irish Rail need to press further with the council after work is completed from their perspective. They were keen to hear all issues as they want the railway completed as much as we do.

They also want the capacity to be utilised, which will easily be the case with a growing town.