metro west "emerging prefered route"....

[The Trinity Politick]

wasn't saying Liffey VAlleyt was in Lucan, merely it serves it instead of Lucan. And 77A in 20 minutes on a good day? Would that day be Christmas Day? That post is so laced with hyperbole and conjecture that I don't know where to start. Maybe later.

DTO studies show SOME not all but some bus speeds can be better than the Luas. Red Luas is slow it has to be there are so many very tight turns take a trip around James' Hospital and listen to the wheels grinding against the tracks.

yeah , i probably shouldve clarified that. 77, 77a, 49 are all pretty good if you want to get into town fast. (though 49s gone down hill since they axed the 49b and forced it to incorporate that route. takes fecking ages in firhouse touring the estate when it used to be straight down the firhouse road)

56a , 54a, and 50 do fecking tours of the housing estates before getting into town.

Well, thats wrong. The new 74a means that the 49 no longer tours up by Woodstown

[constitutionus]

With respect, this is nothing new. It has been the emerging preferred route since July

then how come the literature only came through my door yesterday?

and i was on the 49 last week, true it doesnt go up to woodstown anymore . but it still takes a left at mortons and takes a right just before you get to the roundabout. it does a tour of carriglea before coming back out onto the firhouse road by the shopping centre. its only knocked about 2minutes off a 15 to 20 minute diversion

[alonso]

the route was chosen months ago, the options were published some time in mid 2006. This is nothing new. This route is wtihout a shadow of a doubt the best option for a suburban orbital line for Western Dublin, especially when one takes into account other proposed lines. MW is not a stand alone project