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Unread 21-03-2018, 19:53   #1
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Default Metro (insert favorite name here) is coming again

Looks like another PR gig tomorrow in Dublin

Despite having a route, planning permission, we are going to drop all that and start again.

Usual talk of 60m platforms, as always living in the current and not the future
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Unread 21-03-2018, 21:33   #2
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It's all about appearing to do something without ever doing anything, isn't it? I don't believe the current government has any intention of ever building Metro.

I hope one day we'll have a government that see mass transit as essential to the future of the city.
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Unread 22-03-2018, 09:35   #3
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What we know of the Metrolink www.metrolink.ie (yes the website is legit and owned by the NTA) engineering wise won't work...

Its basically the original Metro plan which as we all know had to be radically redone to actually work so we basically shredded everything and are starting fresh again.
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Massive interchange at Glasnevin between MetroLink and the two IR lines seems like a good idea.

Is ridiculous that it was totally redesigned. Here's to three years in the planning black hole.
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Unread 23-03-2018, 10:03   #5
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Great idea, but it was ruled out last time around.

The drawings do not show an Irish Rail station
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Unread 23-03-2018, 12:19   #6
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I think the idea of an interchange station at Whitworth (presumably they can't call it Phibsborough because the name is already taken by the Green Line) is the one good part of this plan.

Any idea why it was ruled out the last time?
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