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Originally Posted by PLUMB LOCO
While there is some merit in this story things are reaching an absurd state if every station in the country is going to have lifts fitted.
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Why is it absurd? CIÉ accept that 25% of their pasengers have some mobility impairment - wheelchair, pram, elderly, small children, luggage, etc.
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A little bit of imagination and cheaper alternatives (new entrances etc) can be provided at little or no cost
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A new entrance may not always be practical. Dalkey, which doesn't have a lift, has entrances on both sides, but it involves a detour of 200-300m from the car park to the far platform over a public bridge and down a long ramp.
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instead of lifts which will be massively expensive, visually intrusive and have high maintenance costs and short life expectancies!
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Yes, putting in two lifts would cost perhaps €250,000 per station (due to site conditions, not all would need 2). The lift shaft and bridge should last 100 years and the lift mechanics 25 years.
Oh and the government will pick up the tab anyway.
And now, why can't they make the platforms and train interiors the same heights?