If you’re flying to London for business then surely itts into LCY not LHR
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Last time you came home you were telling everybody that the meal you had in the little chef was one of the best you ever had
Doubt many look to you for travel advice
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He hasn’t a notion
Given that San Fransisco has some of the worst traffic in the United States, it’s odd you’re not used to it.
What? Melbourne is as much on the coast as Dublin you dope, that’s like me saying that much of Dublin City straddles the Liffey. FFS.
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Read the thread.
I don’t get @Mac issue with the LUAS, it’s an outstanding piece of infrastructure, one of the most successful in the history of the state. Show me any public transport system in a major city that isn’t crammed at rush hour. If it had the capacity to cope easily at rush hour people would be moaning they’d over invested and it isn’t utilised.
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The LUAS is fine to an extent but you can’t build your whole transport network off light rail.
It is slower and it does have less capacity.
The idea to extend the Metro to Sandyford is a good one. The Green line is probably at capacity at this stage and will only get worse with Cherrywood being build. Getting from the airport direct to Sandyford without having to use the M50 is a good one with Microsoft ect growing so much there.
There is no doubt though that it is a roaring success. It is frequent and still carries large numbers of people at all hours of the day.
What way will the metro/airport rail work? New Dart line from clongriffin to the airport servicing the likes of Kinsealy and Swords?
This is the current proposal.
Apparently they are looking to increase the amount of tunneling grimness Swords to the Airport due to the traffic carnage the TDs are seeing the Luas Cross City causing.
The Southside portion is sketchy. Possibly a tunnel to Charlemount/Ranelagh/Beechwood region with this joining the existing track at Beechwood to Sandyford. That stretch of track can already take heavy rail. Not sure if they rip up the existing Luas overground track.
I’m not sure how it will work with Bray coming onto the Luas line. Maybe the existing Luas will be for Bray/Cherrywood>city centre with the Metro Line being really for the “old” Green Line commuters. A couple of interchanges on the way. The thing is they will share the same track until Ranelagh so not sure how the dynamics would work.
Surely to fuck not?
Sandyford to Beechwood can yes.
Remember that line used to be heavy rail until the 50s. Thankfully they left the majority of that clear, apart from greenery, when they ripped up the tracks - so they could put down heavy track.
The original plan was ALWAYS to put down a heavy line on the Sandyford route- the government of the day decided to go light rail because it was cheaper.
I was asking would they pull up the track sorry
Hopefully in time the Clongriffin spur to the airport is put down though.
It’s sparsley populated but will still connect the DART to the airport, and it won’t be that expensive due to it being mostly greenfields.
According to the papers today that’s the notional plan. Sure they’ll be tunneling anyway so just keep going from the Green southside.
In an ideal world they could tunnel it out to maybe Donnybrook or, even better, Harold’s Cross/Terenure direction and keep the existing overhead line. Costs would be prohibitive and it wouldn’t solve the Green Line capacity issues.
Have you ever been there? The cbd is miles from the sea.
I lived there.
Melbourne is on the coast. It’s not difficult.
The c b d is no where near the sea.
Can you read that?
The Melbourne CBD has been expanded to the Docklands but so what? It is a city built from the sea.
It is not too much different to Dublin where the CBD is up the coast.
The reason for that is quite logical. The sea was for seaside activities, which requires great space. As settlements grow you need more place for administration, so you move away slightly from the coast. Not to mention the simple necessity of building settlements. This happens all over the world. Boston is a coastal city but it’s downtown moved a couple of KM away. Same with Barcelona.
Dublin’s CBD is a few KM away from the coast, but it is a coastal settlement. And just like Melbourne there has been a move to move back towards the sea as industrial activity decreased and left these areas depressed.
I’m not sure how this is so difficult.