Crayon Time
 

Because it's the friday of a long weekend, and I'm having a difficult time to be motivated at work, I thought it would be interesting to see what Luas/Metro/Dart lines people would like to see built, if the sole purpose was to selfishly make your own life easier. In other words, get out the crayons and build a LUAS fomr your door down to your local etc. Extra points if the line actually makes commercial sense.

Well in my case, I live in Ranelagh near the Beechwood station, and I work near Baggot St. so the first thing I'd like to see is a luas line that follows the Grand Canal. It could start at the Red line, and follow the canal to Grand Canal St. DART station. That way, I could take the Luas to Charlemont, change to the Grand Canal line and get off at Baggot St. Bridge and go to work, and my girlfriend could her DART without walking from Stephen's Green to Pearse.

Other than that, I would like to be able take the Luas all the way to Heuston to head home for a weekend, so joining up the lines in town would be nice, or I could use my Grand canal line and skip the city centre. I'd also like the green line to be extended along the Harcourt alignment by one station southwards, Foxrock, handy for tipping out to the driving range! It would also be great for the green line to go underground and become Metro North, non -stop to the airport, no more walking to the Burlo for the Air Coach!

And for a pure 'it'd be handy reasons', a spur off the line from Milltown to head to Donnybrook, the RDS and Landsdowne Rd for all those Leinster rugby games!

Now which politician do I bribe to get that all done?

Brian, Mr. John Henry of the DTO got there before you with the south circular LRT. It looks extremely unlikely however due to the amount of intersections and the horizontal alignment. A Dame street option could be more possible.

But Dame St wouldn't be near as convenient for me.:D

I like your plan. Maybe we should start a bribery fund. I'll throw in a fiver. :D

Cheers Paul, so along with the change in my pocket now, we have €13.57. That should get the Leinster rugby spur built at least!

If we are building a Leinster rugby spur, i'll take a line from Lansdowne road to Donnybrook.
Its a long bloody walk from Kielys to LR:D

So proposed stations:

Milltown (Luas Green Line) = > Clonskeagh (gym for the lads) => Kielys => Bective => Wesley => RDS Uncovered => RDS Covered (and reserved terrace of course) => Bellamys => Lansdowne Rd (DART)

I take it you'll put a fiver into the hat aswell markh?

Wow Brian this is great work. Better yet you are helping a deprived area of Dublin and that is what policitians like to go on about. ;)

You going to love this

Someone beat you to it about 150 years ago with a proposed line through the Dodder valley to the nine arches

Aint that something. Visionary whomever this person was. Cater for the future needs of the population before Leinster Rugby was even conceived!

Obviously this proposal was shouted down by a loud politician from Limerick :D

By the way, Mark have you ever considered wrting an encyclopaedia on Railways in Ireland?

Thats Dereks department

Past too depressing to write about, think about it I had a better Sunday service in 1846 than I do now

You were around in 1846? Well that explains a lot, I thought you were around the same age as me.

So anyone else have any plans for a selfish transport solution?

I remember a couple that were suggested in one of the UCD student newspapers a few years ago. One was a Belfield monorail a la The Simpsons. The other was to connect the Luas lines in the city centre by going down Dawson st and then demolishing Trinty to bring the line to Westmoreland St. I must admit to being a fan of that proposal!

Sounds perfect Brian, perhaps a stop outside the Ho Show Ho so season ticket holders can pop in for their cheap booze and i'll be even happier!

It makes sense ;)

I think that you should work for the RPA.

Hold up, we get cheap booze there? Whoa, how come nobody told me that! Every day, or just during an away game?

Cause no one ever wants to go in there. ;)

It's not that bad ( well after a few beers its fine :D )
The manager has always done a good job looking after everybody.

We should all meet at one of the games for a few pints when the season starts up again. Tonight however, im off to United Park. Come on the Shels.

Maybe make "les bleus" line official Platform 11 policy...

Sounds good to me Mark, we have already sold over 3,500 season tickets so it's gonna be an awesome season on the terrace.