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A train station for Croke Park?

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  • #32
    ArmaniJeanss
    Registered Users Posts: 13,282 ✭✭✭✭ArmaniJeanss


    salmocab wrote: »
    Could someone put up a map showing the current lines in relation to CP and where the drumcondra station is as its difficult to work out what some people are saying? cheers

    https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.360712,-6.2533977,16z?hl=en

    To the North of Croke Park is the current Maynooth Line into Connolly via Drumcondra station (which is to the left of Croke Park as we look).

    South of Croke Pk and parallel with the blue canal is the line into Docklands Station and the Sheriff st depots.

    If you travel left on the map you can see where the lines meet.


  • #33
    MrMorooka
    Registered Users Posts: 710 ✭✭✭MrMorooka


    ArmaniJeanss wrote: »
    the line into Docklands Station and the Sheriff st depots.

    Actually, IE removed the connection at the east end of the line at some point- now that line can only reach Docklands station and Connoly platform 7.


  • #34
    n97 mini
    Registered Users Posts: 8,295 ✭✭✭n97 mini


    MrMorooka wrote: »
    Actually, IE removed the connection at the east end of the line at some point- now that line can only reach Docklands station and Connoly platform 7.

    It's alarming the speed with which IE are dismantling our railway network. What in the name of God did they remove that for.

    The missing bit clearly visible on GE.
    https://www.google.ie/maps/@53.3539333,-6.2400253,165m/data=!3m1!1e3?hl=en


  • #35
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Swiping the points for somewhere else


  • #36
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    ClovenHoof wrote: »
    ...Also CIE want to develop the lower canal line into a cycle path which is why they are demolishing its connectivity to the network constantly.

    Sorry for dragging this old post. What was this about...


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  • #37
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    I presume this refers to a desire to have a greenway along the Royal Canal towards Galway.
    There's a cycle lane from th eLiffey up towards Sherrif St, then an unofficial path/abandoned line up as far as the Newcommen curve. Then you have open towpath up from Charlevill Mall on North Strand road.

    There is a need for a crossing over the line at Newcommen curve, but nothing on the north bank of the canal is required for this greenway routing.


  • #38
    beauf
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,651 ✭✭✭✭beauf


    Its a pity its not looked at with a view to removing awkward gates/junctions. As its a off road greenway all the way from D.15 (and beyond) right into city centre connecting with the southside cycle lanes at the Samuel Beckett.

    Its bit off topic though for access to Croke Park though. Sorry for that.


  • #39
    newacc2015
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭newacc2015


    cgcsb wrote: »
    Is nobody going to mention how horrific it is to propose we demolish social housing to make way for an 'entrance plaza' while we are experiencing a housing crisis and many children are living in hotels eating ready meals?

    What is stopping DCC flattening them and putting the station underground, then rebuilding apartments at say 8-10 storeys high overhead instead of the existing 4/5 storey apartment blocks that are currently there? You are putting in a station and providing more social housing. In fact it would probably make sense to demolish the social housing and replace it partly private housing, since a lot of the area could do with a regeneration.

    What is horrific is DCC sitting on hundreds of acres of empty land and no one seems to have an issue with that as all the TD's are just blaming landlords, developers etc

    IMO this will never happen. There are far more important infrastructure projects that would happen in Dublin before this


  • #40
    Carawaystick
    Registered Users Posts: 8,779 ✭✭✭Carawaystick


    A station off Ballybough road should be on the Railway end, as that's where the most trains run.


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