anyone who's been near to a Toronto streetcar will tell you electric doesn't always mean quiet
Roll on the Flexitys - after the so-called tender process brings forth the name "Bombardier" as miraculously seems to happen here.
As for Dublin-Belfast - maybe it's time for the government to say "look, we know Translink doesn't have the money to go 50:50 on increasing service and god knows when they ever will. We'll pay for converting Dublin-Cork Mk3s to Enterprise, buy DVTs for the DDs and introduce clockfacing. When we replace the DDs and Mk3s we'll go 66:33 rather than 50:50"
I think the need (for Kyoto reasons among others) will outweigh the financial advantages of waiting for translink to match pound for euro (so to speak).