http://www.platform11.org have proved it can be used for peak commuter trains. Is there any way Iarnrod Eireann and the DoT be forced legally to provide a service? Timetable slots and rolling stock do exist. Albert Reynolds "instructed" CIE to provide the Maynooth Commuter Service in 1981, so will Dempsey really deliver or be forced to?
No interest from FFPD in this line. All the landowners are along the M3 corridor. They have no reason to reopen this line as it will benefit no-one but the people. I was skeptical about this in the past due to capacity constraints in the city, but Platform 11's argument is strong.
However, my simple solution to the Meath commuting crisis is to provide jobs and services in Drogheda and Navan, and obliterate the commuter culture. Travel is a derived demand so let's destroy the force from whence it's derived; poor planning.
I also would prefer if various lobby groups united to get the dedicated Navan line built. The backwardness of all attention focussing on the M3 is staggering.
We need to radically change every system that has enabled the wholesale destruction of the Irish landscape, rural and urban. There is no time for incremental step by step measures. The systems have failed utterly and the only hope for a real recovery requires the rule book to be torn up completely.
Turn it into a busway
The track was renewed recently. Simbo67's proposal costs more, but also sheds light on the unwitting alliance between landowners wanting a payday and academics like Sean Barrett who ideologically oppose rail.
Haha,
I am working for the developers now am i?! The running costs of the rail line will be massive. It will have a huge capacity with no physical way of filling the trains. Running a bus along the line would be far more cheaper. I do not "ideologically oppose rail", I do oppose white elephant projects. There is a certain amount to be spent on public transport, if it is wasted on silly projects then other more deserving projects dont get done.
RBinge, don't label me anti-rail.
too many people have too much to say on public transport. It's time to stop the waffle.
Scrap decentralisation. Rewrite the RPG and NSS. Give Drogheda and Navan a few thousand jobs each, and cut out the need to travel 50 miles to work. It's a disgrace. While policy makers and hacks debate these issues ad nauseum, the people have to suffer, and the planners have to swallow bull************************ decisions all day long.
We need to radically change every system that has enabled the wholesale destruction of the Irish landscape, rural and urban. There is no time for incremental step by step measures. The systems have failed utterly and the only hope for a real recovery requires the rule book to be torn up completely.
And the costs of not doing it aren't???Originally Posted by Simbo67
A busway is not an option. A railway is.
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