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Unread 28-01-2010, 00:24   #21
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Plenty of people living only a short distance away. The problem as always is getting the people to the station and away from Heuston to where they want to go.

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Unread 28-01-2010, 09:14   #22
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It is just an excuse after all.

Kilbarry was also put off and that's surrounded by houses and apartments. But I guess saying that they don't have the money to do it may sound like they're becoming political. And when the board is appointed by the government...
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There is some additional construction work going on at the moment. It looks like they might be adding a platform to what will be the outbound fast track once all work is complete.
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Looking at the area on a map, Kishogue station is literally just off the Dublin Outer Orbital Road, a dual carriageway at that point.

What I don't understand is this: why just build a big car park at the station (since it seems to be a lot of empty space around there) and use the place in the interim as a "D.O.O.R. Park and Ride?"
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Looking at the area on a map, Kishogue station is literally just off the Dublin Outer Orbital Road, a dual carriageway at that point.

What I don't understand is this: why just build a big car park at the station (since it seems to be a lot of empty space around there) and use the place in the interim as a "D.O.O.R. Park and Ride?"
Outer Ring Road - DOOR is from Naas to Balbriggan / Drogheda "cross country".

There is a park and ride one stop further on at Clondalkin Fonthill and further west at Adamstown.
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Ack, I mean Dublin Outer Ring Road, or the R136 dual carriageway.

There may be park and rides in those other stops, but from the point of view of Kishogue being on a major dual carriageway such as the R136, it would be ideal to have one there too.

I'm sorry, but IMHO in a country that's a car dependent as Ireland, building a train station off a dual carriageway without a single parking space makes no sense whatsoever. Particularly when there's a big empty field next door.
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But there are dirty big dual carriageways connecting that station to the next stations also.
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