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Western Rail Corridor
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The Ennis to Athenry carried 138,000 in 2018 (source IE).
Irish Rail operate 363 days and there is 5 services Mon-Sat, 4 Sun & Public Holidays. I would make it 60 days of a Sunday/PH service and 303 of Mon-Sat service in 2018. Therefore a total 3,510 scheduled train services giving a average load per train of 39.3 passengers so 39 passengers. This does not include the few extra for Galway Races specials which would bring the 39 figure slightly lower.
Average weekday loads Mon-Sat 2,340 (390 x 6) and Sun 312.
Exactly, that is the per train load average. If all modes of transport used a per unit average there would be many people left waiting at all the stops every morning and evening. It is not a fair reflection of the usage imo. 138,000 passengers a year between two towns sounds better
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ShaneC1600 wrote: »Exactly, that is the per train load average. If all modes of transport used a per unit average there would be many people left waiting at all the stops every morning and evening. It is not a fair reflection of the usage imo. 138,000 passengers a year between two towns sounds better
I did say it was an average and not a good one either. It is a fair reflection of the usage, the stats are stats and 138,000 per year for the service level is poor. Would you support IE dropping all non peak services?
In comparison Waterford/Limerick J with 2 return services per day over 6 days has an average of 33.8 rounded to 34 passengers per train in 2018 and that's with regular bus transfers on the route.0 -
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https://www.gov.ie/en/publication/1174d-review-of-western-rail-corridor-phases-2-and-3-athenry-to-claremorris/
Above, link to EY report on WRC Athenry / Tuam / Claremorris / Collooney.
Basically, they state it would not provide value for money.
Haven't read it yet. Will take a few lunch breaks to digest.
In my view I think that closes the book on it.
I've been reading it. The 'mistakes' are breath taking. I not only don't think the book is closed on it, after the Irish sugar report debacle, I'm wondering do we have a problem with reports in this country
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I've been reading it. The 'mistakes' are breath taking. I not only don't think the book is closed on it, after the Irish sugar report debacle, I'm wondering do we have a problem with reports in this country
The more things change, the more they remain the same. Here's a flavour of an article, that used to be linked to in full here, from the Sunday Independent in 1979:So the electrification of the Dublin-Bray suburban line has been approved. There can be few projects in the history of the State for which there was less jusification. Here we had a railway line which does about 2% or urban transport and in doing so loses nearly as much money as do the Dublin buses, which carry twenty times as many passengers.
The line is wasteful of fuel; there is good evidence to show that petroleum imports whould be saved if it were closed and all its passengers used cars, one person to a car.
So what does the government do? Does it put more money into the more economic bus services, which serve the poorer areas? Not on your life. It proposes to spend nearly £50m, much of it on imported machinery, so that even more — four times more — half-empty trains parade up and down the line, using a system (electrication) which is inherently less fuelefficient than the current diesel system — and far less efficient than buses.
You and I — the taxpayers — would have to fork out less if instead of electrifing it the government bought a brand-new car for each of the line’s present adult passengers to do their suburban travel in
It seems that many in the Irish decision making and decision influencing game imbibe from early childhood the notion that rail transport is somehow uniquely wasteful. It's a shame, because they pump out misinformation for free that the Kochs et al paid for time and time again in the United States on an ongoing basis to attempt to scupper rail plans in different localities.0 -
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goingnowhere wrote: »Great, another study...
I think we just need to peer review the figures of the one we have....
It had a line in it that was suspiciously positive about the financial cost of re-opening the railway line... it looks like they didn't delete it.
As I've said before, it's as if Ernest & Young have left some bread crumbs for the public to follow....0
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