Navan Rail link - Phase 2

Mark Gleeson · 30-01-2020, 16:42

Navan is about item 30 on a list of priorities

We can't get to Navan until after DART underground happens, isn't space in the city centre to take the demand

It would be 1200 boarding each AM based on IE's model

That said I would challenge the demand, I was one of only 23 on a bus last week leaving Dublin at 1810 for Navan...

dowlingm · 30-01-2020, 18:15

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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson

Navan is about item 30 on a list of priorities

We can't get to Navan until after DART underground happens, isn't space in the city centre to take the demand

It would be 1200 boarding each AM based on IE's model

That said I would challenge the demand, I was one of only 23 on a bus last week leaving Dublin at 1810 for Navan...

Getting 50mph Tara traffic off the Belfast mainline (and allowing the Drogheda-Navan branch to be put into neglect and rustage) would be handy though, no?

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/t...mine-jztbzf6g5

Goods · 30-01-2020, 23:44

It would be great to think that there is actually a list of transport priorities. Experience shows us that policy decisions often respond to the strength of the lobby. Politically Navan railway line has become an issue mainly because it was planned that the M3 line would be extended to Navan and then the plan was dropped with so much more post 2008. Meanwhile motorway building continues apace despite the climate impact.
Dormitory towns are here to stay the model will not change its the same around the world you have bigger and bigger cities and the surrounding population are drawn to the centre. Railway is a good option

30-01-2020, 16:42	#1
Mark Gleeson Technical Officer Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Coach C, Seat 33 Posts: 12,669	Navan is about item 30 on a list of priorities We can't get to Navan until after DART underground happens, isn't space in the city centre to take the demand It would be 1200 boarding each AM based on IE's model That said I would challenge the demand, I was one of only 23 on a bus last week leaving Dublin at 1810 for Navan... __________________ Unhappy with new timetable - let us know

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30-01-2020, 23:44	#3
Goods Regular Poster Join Date: Aug 2017 Posts: 117	It would be great to think that there is actually a list of transport priorities. Experience shows us that policy decisions often respond to the strength of the lobby. Politically Navan railway line has become an issue mainly because it was planned that the M3 line would be extended to Navan and then the plan was dropped with so much more post 2008. Meanwhile motorway building continues apace despite the climate impact. Dormitory towns are here to stay the model will not change its the same around the world you have bigger and bigger cities and the surrounding population are drawn to the centre. Railway is a good option