The Public Transport Thread

[TheUlteriorMotive]

Public transport seethe is one of life’s guilty pleasures.

Watching somebody else’s seethe descend into micro aggressions and you standing there, all superior, rolling your eyes choosing not to remember the time you sighed heavily in an airport security queue when some jackass waited to last moment to de metal himself.

[Keadyshouldhaveplayedin89]

Dublin Commuter Coalition

Metrolink to the airport announced today. Should be in place for the championship of 2041 after all the objections are heard.

[Bisto]

Stick it down the middle of M50 and have it cut in at the red cow and join up with the luas ta fcuk …job is oxo

[habanerocat]

@Fagan_ODowd

In the last couple of days I have seen people bring electric bikes and electric scooters on to the dart. What’s the point of these fucking things if you have to bring them on the train.

And another thing I’ve noticed is people spreading things out on the seat like it’s a home office and tap tapping on the laptop to their hearts content and they pulling bits of paper from the laptop bag that of course they have on the seat beside them because their work is too important to be disturbed by one of the great unwashed sitting beside them. Cunts. What’s wrong with taking 20 minutes out of your day and just watching the world go by.

A lot of people are trying to put the commute into their working day (1+6+1=8) and getting away with it. Grand if you can get away with it.

[Heyyoubehindthebushes]

Where are the floating cars? Surely that far in the future the visuals should have that?

[Fagan_ODowd]

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2022/0705/1308536-metro-link/

The mythical train line will have trains every 3 minutes.

[myboyblue]

[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.