The questions remain !
Why do DARTs take 25% to 40% longer to travel from Bray to Greystones compared to a diesel thus generating much of the congestion between Bray and Greystones.
Why does the DART take between 16% and 25% longer to travel from Bray to Connolly than in 1984 ?
DART may well account for 40% of Irish Rail's passenger numbers, but the average passenger journey is fairly short at around 9km and of course revenue per passenger is correspondingly modest.
In order to get best use of limited track capacity it would seem a no brainer that peak period DARTs should always be made up to 8 carriages (carrying at least 60% of design capacity) and that where such demand doesn't exist frequency should be adjusted accordingly to give precedence to higher revenue longer distance traffic.
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