At 27 miles out Enfield is not considered a commuter station. You will never have a train every 10 minutes as you get when you are within 15 miles of the city. You will be lucky to get a service every 30 minutes and thats the limit and that depends on both the second platform and double track out to Mullingar to happen.
The name of game is to carry the most number of people, further out you go it costs more to provide the service and it provides less and less benefits. In comparison, Wicklow is the same distance, out has 4 times the population and only 2 morning services (vs 3) and 3 in the evening 3 vs 4 so Enfield is doing very well
The DTO is currently trying to figure out how to make the city work and long distance commuting is a big problem since its really hard to address with public transport
Anything radical will effect DART and Maynooth line only, in reality its nothing special just providing a consistent service level and clockface timetables, really restoring the service to what it always should have been in the first place.
Last edited by Mark Gleeson : 22-10-2008 at 13:42.
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