The Public Transport Thread

[TreatyStones]

Mass air travel as we know it will have ceased to exist by 2030.

[StoneCold]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy “We need to cancel air travel to save the environmenr”

Also @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy “We need to build multi billion euro public transport links to the airport to make it easier for people to fly”

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Its going to swords mate

[Corksfinedtboy]

ohhhhh this place

[Juhniallio]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

Its going to swords mate

He put you to the sword mate. Skewered you like a shrimp on a barbie, he did.

[Julio_Geordio]

@Julio_Geordio

Iarnród Éireann has submitted a plan to create a Dart rail link between Dublin Airport and Dublin city centre.
The business case for the new line, costing an estimated €200m has been presented to Transport Minister Leo Varadkar.

The construction of a 7km rail line from Clongriffin to the airport would allow passengers a direct link to the city with a projected journey time of just 25 minutes.

The new line could be operational within four years.

The lower cost and rapid delivery of a high-speed rail link from the airport to the city means the project is more likely to be approved by the cash-strapped government.

A review of the capital spending programme is under way and will be completed in September, after which a decision will be made on which of the four projects – Metro North, DART underground, DART airport and link-up of the two Luas lines – will go ahead.

Last May the Irish Independent revealed that the Government had ordered Iarnrod Eireann to update a 1991 plan to build a spur from Clongriffin Station to the airport.

The move came amid concerns that the State could not afford a €2.5bn Metro North project from the city centre to Swords via the airport, and that an extension of the DART network could be the cheaper option.

I’ve been saying for ages they should do this. We don’t need an underground train ffs. The fact they’ve probably spent the cost of doing this on the feasability studies etc. on the metro is what qualifies it for this thread.

That was 2011. Here we are 11 years later, €250m spent on feasability for the metro, not a shovel turned, and the price gone up 4 fold

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

i think we were broke in 2011

Now we have money and this is the furthest along its ever been

Eamon is delivering on Public Transport

[Julio_Geordio]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

Eamon is delivering on Public Transport

I’m all for Eamonn spending all our tax money on public infastructure projects that will end in massive cost over runs and only benefit people living in Dublin, but could this €10bn* be better spent on other projects?

*€20bn+

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

what other transport projects would be better?

Swords is massive & is growing at a huge rate so lots will benefit from this.

Also, there is a return

Dublin Commuter Coalition

[Julio_Geordio]

Train link to the Dart line for a fraction of the price and build 5 more Luas lines instead, maybe even one in Cork, Galway and Limerick

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Train link from.swords to the airport to clongriffin to tracks that are already full?

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Julio_Geordio

Train link to the Dart line for a fraction of the price and build 5 more Luas lines instead, maybe even one in Cork, Galway and Limerick

What do you need a LUAS line in Limerick for? You’d walk from one end of it to the other in half an hour.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@Julio_Geordio

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

Eamon is delivering on Public Transport

I’m all for Eamonn spending all our tax money on public infastructure projects that will end in massive cost over runs and only benefit people living in Dublin, but could this €10bn* be better spent on other projects?

*€20bn+

You’ll be able to get the train to Heuston, LUAS to city centre and metro to the airport. Never have to bring a car to Dublin again.

[StoneCold]

They really should be thinking about extending this out towards Terenure, Templeogue and Rathfarnham. That area is only served by buses and those buses cannot handle the capacity at peak times.

[Julio_Geordio]

@Fagan_ODowd

What do you need a LUAS line in Limerick for? You’d walk from one end of it to the other in half an hour.

Raheen to Castletroy is well over 2 hours walk mate.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Think the southsiders have already objected to this

[StoneCold]

Did the South Westsiders?

[artfoley]

@Fagan_ODowd

What do you need a LUAS line in Limerick for?

[Julio_Geordio]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

Train link from.swords to the airport to clongriffin to tracks that are already full?

So upgrade the tracks, it needs to be done anyway. A fraction of the price. Or just build an overland rail, mixed in with a bit of underground.
There’s no need to dig a big fuck off hole in the ground, in a city that is not very built up.
The line could also join at Ashtown crossing very little developed area

[StoneCold]

How many cities of Limerick’s size have modern tram lines in fairness?