Luas cross city line

And the Northside is ignored again. Surley they could spur the Dart across to Swords via the Airport from either Portmarmock or Malahide.

Deleted User wrote: »

Careful, you'll rouse the Commuting & Transport protected regulars & get hounded out of After Hours too!

Hell hath no fury like C&T users brought forth!

As others have said, it's not just about joining (or pseudo joining) the Red and Green lines, it's about the North West inner city and suburbs, with a long term goal of extending the Green line into Finglas. In the interim it will terminate at Broombridge at the Western Commuter rail station. To me, fears about what might happen at Broombridge I think are a little overstated. Veolia the Luas operator is a private concern, I'd imagine they will sooner bring in high security, tear gas grenades and machine gun nests than allow their property and trams to be vandalised.

WRT to the rail link to Dublin airport, that is entirely dependent on revised and upgraded signalling and routing on the congested two track Northern line out of Connolly and at that still will not result in some panacea of DART trains running to the airport every five minutes. Plus it will only add service to the airport, nowhere else.

WRT to Cork, Limerick Galway, if you want public transport improvements then start lobbying your representatives for better bus services and bus infrastructure, park and rides, bus lanes, etc, as well as better planning and development to ensure that public transport provision is key to any new property developments. The poor mouth approach of 'but look what Dublin got' may play well in some sections of the media, but in the current financial climate and particularly now that the super-funtime-populist party is out of power, nobody in government is going to care.

OSI wrote: »

Walk from Dun Laoghaire to Blanchardstown and tell me that.

you can get a train from Dún Laoghaire to Castleknock/Coolmine/Clonsilla and a bus if necessary.

CHealy wrote: »

Limerick and Galway need serious updates to their bus services, but are not the size to constitute having any other form of public transport.

Actually there have been big changes in teh last 1-2 years, with the crazy timetables gone. http://www.buseireann.ie/inner.php?id=248##galway

crockholm wrote: »

My major gripe with the 747 is that it doesn't use the port tunnel enough

The 747 invariably uses the tunnel since the route was re-cast several years ago.

andersat2 wrote: »

in addition to that, I'm imagine nightmare traffic in Phibsboro and Navan Rd. while this line will be biuld..

As people have said, the Luas will go in the cutting under the bridges: http://binged.it/16Cgfby

As a Dub jackeen I genuinely do sympathize with our bogger brothers when it comes to transport.
Life does indeed exist outside the pale and the likes of a redirect by rail to Dublin when you're coming from Limerick is ridiculous and plain unfair.
Its this Dublin gets everything policy that has people voting 'their (wo)man' in, regardless of who he/she is.
The larger bogger realms do deserve better.

although, that said if you saw the navan road this morning ...

JD DABA wrote: »

As a Dub jackeen I genuinely do sympathize with our bogger brothers when it comes to transport.
Life does indeed exist outside the pale and the likes of a redirect by rail to Dublin when you're coming from Limerick is ridiculous and plain unfair.
Its this Dublin gets everything policy that has people voting 'their (wo)man' in, regardless of who he/she is.
The larger bogger realms do deserve better.

But per capita they already get far more. Roads, schools, buses, hospitals, trains, gardaí, etc. etc are all far more expensive to supply to a widely-spread population (Co. Dublin = 1,380 people per km2, rest of the country, 47) For a city of Dublin's size in a country of Ireland's wealth, infrastructure is very bad.