Additionally this graphic shows where it connects to existing transit and is in fact not going to be a disconnected system
Classsssss
I don’t like it
They should start again.
I know that I like to throw shade at this project but it’s really a necessity. Connolly Station is already at capacity since the DART went to every ten minutes and there’s already plenty of reports of overcrowded commuter services so there has to be another route from North County Dublin. The houses have to built and people will need to commute.
All the talk of the corporation tax bonanza coming to an end. IMO it makes sense to spend it on capital projects like this.
I remember when T2 was built it was said they put a station in back then for the eventuality a metro would be built. Anyone know if that’s actually true?
I was assaulted on the Dublin metro.
It’ll be like a majestic salmon, leaping over the M50 and then back underground
Hmm, I saw a bird in Griffith Park once. Planning permission denied.
Could we not move the airport to the Phoenix Park?
The fact it is designed to move 20k people per hour just along that one route speaks volumes to the scope of the problem Dublin faces moving people around and the need for the metro to he finished ASAP.
We definitely need it. I’m near Bride’s Glen (last stop Greenline South Bound) and I don’t drive.
IF the Metrolink was already built and I wanted to go out to Dublin Airport for me holidays, with today’s pricing, it’d cost me
€45 – €55 for a taxi
€13 for Air Coach
Or
€2.00 for the Luas/Metrolink with the TFI 90 Minute fare.
I understand the environmental concerns but I’m trying to be a stingy bastard so I can have more money for me holidays.
Swords is the largest town outside the M50 with the lowest public transport usage. The buses take too long, and swords express is an expensive private operator which covers only some parts of swords (worse outside peak hours) and doesn’t share leap card capping with tfi.
Looks good enough. NOW GET BUILDING THANKS
Once again the area from Ranelgh to Drimnagh is ignored. It is a straight line from Rathfarnham-Terenure-Harolds Cross-Clanbrassil Street all the way more or less to Ballymun.
I think the big thing to consider about this project is that the main priority is not the airport. It’s good the airport will be served but also incidental. The main point will be as a commuter route and alleviating traffic. Swords alone has 8000 daily commuters heading into the city and the town is only growing.
But what about the toy shop that’ll be torn down in Swords?
(Seriously, that’s actually one of the objections.)
Bring the Chinese over, their engineers will have it done by next weekend.
I know not quite applicable in this case, but is there a reason all public transport through Dublin seems to focus on North-South. Do they not realise that Dublin isn’t some coastal area and spreads East-West too? Even NE-SW and NW-SE.
It’s big but it’s hardly the moon landing.
The fact that articles like this keep happening just shows how much of a shit show this 5 weeks is going to be:
Jim O’Callaghan wants it to terminate at Stephens Green because there’s nothing really at Charlemont.
Does he know that you can get off the train before the last stop?
Why isn’t making statements like this ridiculed?
Do the have any idea why it’s being terminated where it is at all?
The original Metro North had people wanting it to terminate in a loop at Stephens Green to save money rather than continue on south to a more appropriate terminus.
These consultations are infuriating.
Why does it end in ranelagh? What’s the thought there?
Anyone born in the last 10 years might get a chance at seeing this actually exist in their retirement years
I really hope we just bite the bullet and start building this. So badly needed!
Happy enough with this. My only issue is it only going as far as Charlemont, it could easily go further south and service Rathmines, Terenure, Rathfarnham, Ballyboden. But just build the thing at this stage, as is, we can extend it later. There isn’t a city in the world that had a completed metro and said, “do you know what? We were better off without it.”
3 years ago I bought a house in Co. Cork. It was great. 10 minutes from work, no traffic, skipped all of it by taking backroads. Then 6 months later they opened up a school on my route to work. Now my trip takes upwards of 30 minutes. Anyways because of this I think the MetroLink in dublin should not be built, in an off chance it has a butterfly effect on my commute to work in Cork.
Joking aside, do people not realize that it’s not going to be perfect, but it’s fucking a fuck ton better than what we have currently, which is nothing.
They just need to get it started, to be honest there’s also probably a case for bringing the northern rail link to Dublin Airport also which would allow people in towns further north or even in NI to come on the train to the airport rather than simply connecting the airport to the city.
Once they build one line they should also think of extending this further south and build lines to the west also.
Once you’ve got a project like this you’ve got skills and expertise that you can keep using.
I doubt this will happen but Dublin is light-years behind other major cities in Europe. And Ireland is many times further behind in public transport.
Look at German cities like Frankfurt having a long distance train station in the airport connecting all over Germany and even into other countries alongside a local train station.
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Additionally this graphic shows where it connects to existing transit and is in fact not going to be a disconnected system
Classsssss
I don’t like it
They should start again.
I know that I like to throw shade at this project but it’s really a necessity. Connolly Station is already at capacity since the DART went to every ten minutes and there’s already plenty of reports of overcrowded commuter services so there has to be another route from North County Dublin. The houses have to built and people will need to commute.
All the talk of the corporation tax bonanza coming to an end. IMO it makes sense to spend it on capital projects like this.
I remember when T2 was built it was said they put a station in back then for the eventuality a metro would be built. Anyone know if that’s actually true?
I was assaulted on the Dublin metro.
It’ll be like a majestic salmon, leaping over the M50 and then back underground
Hmm, I saw a bird in Griffith Park once. Planning permission denied.
Could we not move the airport to the Phoenix Park?
The fact it is designed to move 20k people per hour just along that one route speaks volumes to the scope of the problem Dublin faces moving people around and the need for the metro to he finished ASAP.
We definitely need it. I’m near Bride’s Glen (last stop Greenline South Bound) and I don’t drive.
IF the Metrolink was already built and I wanted to go out to Dublin Airport for me holidays, with today’s pricing, it’d cost me
€45 – €55 for a taxi
€13 for Air Coach
Or
€2.00 for the Luas/Metrolink with the TFI 90 Minute fare.
I understand the environmental concerns but I’m trying to be a stingy bastard so I can have more money for me holidays.
Swords is the largest town outside the M50 with the lowest public transport usage. The buses take too long, and swords express is an expensive private operator which covers only some parts of swords (worse outside peak hours) and doesn’t share leap card capping with tfi.
Looks good enough. NOW GET BUILDING THANKS
Once again the area from Ranelgh to Drimnagh is ignored. It is a straight line from Rathfarnham-Terenure-Harolds Cross-Clanbrassil Street all the way more or less to Ballymun.
I think the big thing to consider about this project is that the main priority is not the airport. It’s good the airport will be served but also incidental. The main point will be as a commuter route and alleviating traffic. Swords alone has 8000 daily commuters heading into the city and the town is only growing.
But what about the toy shop that’ll be torn down in Swords?
(Seriously, that’s actually one of the objections.)
[https://www.irishtimes.com/transport/2024/02/17/the-10-places-in-dublin-where-metrolink-will-cause-the-most-disruption-and-destruction/](https://www.irishtimes.com/transport/2024/02/17/the-10-places-in-dublin-where-metrolink-will-cause-the-most-disruption-and-destruction/)
Bring the Chinese over, their engineers will have it done by next weekend.
I know not quite applicable in this case, but is there a reason all public transport through Dublin seems to focus on North-South. Do they not realise that Dublin isn’t some coastal area and spreads East-West too? Even NE-SW and NW-SE.
It’s big but it’s hardly the moon landing.
The fact that articles like this keep happening just shows how much of a shit show this 5 weeks is going to be:
https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2024/0220/1433332-metrolink-project/
Jim O’Callaghan wants it to terminate at Stephens Green because there’s nothing really at Charlemont.
Does he know that you can get off the train before the last stop?
Why isn’t making statements like this ridiculed?
Do the have any idea why it’s being terminated where it is at all?
The original Metro North had people wanting it to terminate in a loop at Stephens Green to save money rather than continue on south to a more appropriate terminus.
These consultations are infuriating.
Why does it end in ranelagh? What’s the thought there?
Anyone born in the last 10 years might get a chance at seeing this actually exist in their retirement years
I really hope we just bite the bullet and start building this. So badly needed!
Happy enough with this. My only issue is it only going as far as Charlemont, it could easily go further south and service Rathmines, Terenure, Rathfarnham, Ballyboden. But just build the thing at this stage, as is, we can extend it later. There isn’t a city in the world that had a completed metro and said, “do you know what? We were better off without it.”
3 years ago I bought a house in Co. Cork. It was great. 10 minutes from work, no traffic, skipped all of it by taking backroads. Then 6 months later they opened up a school on my route to work. Now my trip takes upwards of 30 minutes. Anyways because of this I think the MetroLink in dublin should not be built, in an off chance it has a butterfly effect on my commute to work in Cork.
Joking aside, do people not realize that it’s not going to be perfect, but it’s fucking a fuck ton better than what we have currently, which is nothing.
They just need to get it started, to be honest there’s also probably a case for bringing the northern rail link to Dublin Airport also which would allow people in towns further north or even in NI to come on the train to the airport rather than simply connecting the airport to the city.
Once they build one line they should also think of extending this further south and build lines to the west also.
Once you’ve got a project like this you’ve got skills and expertise that you can keep using.
I doubt this will happen but Dublin is light-years behind other major cities in Europe. And Ireland is many times further behind in public transport.
Look at German cities like Frankfurt having a long distance train station in the airport connecting all over Germany and even into other countries alongside a local train station.