Dublin - Metrolink (Swords to Charlemont only)

That would be so impractical. Just call it Phibsboro & Glasnevin, make it do what it says on the tin.

Still fuming that they eventually renamed bus stop 3966 from O'Briens Supermarket to Maynooth SC ~25 years after it changed name :p

I don't know if Santry Retail Park (1627) ever existed

Brian Boru seems fine, after all we have Pearse, Heuston and Connolly stations in the city which clearly aren't geographical names.

What rural stations have you been in? Any Ive been in were practically designed against people spending time in.

Theres one been uploaded for Glanevin today as well

https://downloads.metrolink.ie/oh/Oral%20Hearing%20Station%20Architecture%20Glasnevin%20Presentation.pdf

Why would there be any of those things? The station will only serve train routes with a sub 10 minute frequency and metro trams with a 3 minute frequency and city bus routes with sub 5 minute frequency, perhaps some long distance buses will stop there. The only possible intercity service is Dublin-Sligo every 2 hours and there's presently no plans to stop sligo trains there although it makes sense.

On the topic of long distance buses I think metrolink may well rip the arse out that market considering the amount of intercity bus services that serve Dublin city and Airport. Passengers would be much quicker changing at the airport than any coach service.

We have not even got close to planning for stopping patterns - that won't happen for quite some time.

I think they more mean the intercity routes than Aircoachs 700 and Dublin Express. It would probably make more sense for these to just terminate at the Airport and passengers to connect to the Metro as opposed to serving the city centre. Especially if a purpose built coach station is built at the airport.

The 16/A2 would still serve areas unserved by the Metro and possibly could be rerouted to avoid duplicating the Metro route.

If Sligo services are stopping at Glasnevin/Boru Station there's going to have to be at least some improved connection to the more major intercity trains, at the very least Cork and Galway intercities should stop at Hazelhatch to allow people get the DART to Glasnevin and change to metro, the alternative being a treck from heuston to heuston west or wedge yourself onto red line luas all the way to OCS/Abbey, treck up to OCS metro and out that way.

It's amazing how insensitive MRI machines become in the presence of some brown envelopes.

200kmh on the Dublin-Cork route and some Double track on Dublin-Galway would likely clean up a lot of the private coach operators unless they can offer hyper discount tickets like mega bus in the UK, which does £5 intercity trips, would appeal more to students and low income though, most people are happy enough paying 30ish for trains especially if they're very quick.

Dublins bus lanes are congested with coaches in many areas because of the crap long distance rail options, there should be more room on the streets for city buses. Which we continue to depend on for the vast majority of commutes.

I can't find the source now, but I believe there's also goverment support in those cheap rail fare offers, same as there is for the recent Leap fare cut for bus.

I could see fares rising maybe 10-15% as the product improvement would support that, but any higher and you'd just be encouraging people to drive instead, which is directly contrary to our CO2 reduction obligations.

Also, higher-speed services are very likely to increase both ridership and overall capacity (faster trains mean more spare time on each track segment, so more services can be run). This would allow IÉ to make as much as, or more than, they do now without needing to raise prices: the costs of running a train has nothing to do with how many seats are occupied.

Where the coach operators would still be competitive is on services directly to Dublon Airport, and to be honest, once Metrolink is online, I think most of the airport bus operators will end up terminating their services at the Airport, handing their City passengers over to the Metro, rather than incurring the hassle and delays of going in to the city centre themselves.

It will primarily be up to the government of the day. Like today, across all forms of public transport, they can implement and force cheap fares.