Orbital, SW lines and Lucan are needed and would be welcomed.
I would have thought a more comprehensive system would already be in active development. The original Green Line and Red Line cost €728m together. I take the Red Line to work, it’s always rammed. It’s popular!
I give it to 3050 to actually get done
Looks good.
Sure look, a lot can happen in 25 years.
Man will land on Mars, we’ll have a new space station orbiting the moon, nuclear fusion will be only 10 more years away and Ireland will have finally dusted off these old plans from 2024 and might then decide to give one of the lines a go, what the heck, never too late.
Kind of interesting to go for “*Inner* North/South Circle”, implies an outer one, but they’ve opted for Orbital West instead of say, Outer West Circle, but then this is the first time those have appeared on an official map and they’re not so much a plan here as an aspiration. Like, it would surely also be weird not to run the North one to at least the Blanch line? Dunsink/Scribblestown is in theory up for redevelopment in the timescale involved here.
Unless there’s an idea that you’d run a circular service on a selection of the inner lines (portions of the Lucan+Red+Green?).
Luas is great for short hops, too many stops for long journeys though. Maybe the orbital routes will have more distance between stops.
You’ll get 3 extra stops on the redline and you’ll be happy you got anything
Pretty depressing to be honest – by the time this comes onboard I’ll be too old to enjoy it in any meaningful capacity. This honestly want me to just spend the next 25 years living in an actually well-designed city right now rather than just…kinda wait for it.
How about an undersea one connecting Dun Laoghaire and Howth.
I will take “Things that will never happen” for €1000
Orbital should be a continuous line along the M50, all the way to the airport. It makes no sense to have to go to the city center to get to the airport if you live in Blanchardstown.
Build an underground first.
So in the next 16 years we should expect a tiny extension to Finglas and a Lucan line? Everything else is open ended from 2040 until Pangaea reforms. Is the second route from Sandyford to Stephen’s Green just so the poshos don’t feel left out? While I’m clearly taking out my bad day at work on these designs, it does look like a good network. Perhaps I’m showing my lack of local knowledge but why not extend the Balgriffin route to the airport?
2050 ffs. Took them 9 years to complete the M50 upgrade. Not a hope they complete that by 2050.
The current Luas Red Line isn’t safe at all. Public transport in Ireland is atrocious, so city wide access is needed, but they really need to sort out the existing issues before stretching resources further. If I was living in an area where a Luas expansion was proposed, I’d want it far away from my home. I live near a Red Line stop, and I can say that from experience, it brings trouble to the surrounding areas.
Was this found in the science fiction & fantasy section?
Obviously an election coming….what about the fucking metro?
Not even started yet.
What is this bullshit? We Irish are gullible as fuck
“Post 2040” doing a lot of lifting
Expand the LUAS lines to Cork by 2150
Whoa whoa hold on. I recently saw the nepo baby of nepo babies finance minister on RTE saying how all Irelands money is going into a ‘fund’. We don’t have money for this lads. Put it away
Mad there’s places in Ireland without a bus route & they’re expanding the Luas instead of
Worst Bladerunner sequel ever.
20 fucking 50 and still no airport link
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Its genuinely baffling how unambitious the plans are for the next few years. We should just be laying a new section of track every day until the city is nothing but tracks (genuinely).
Every single one of these should be a metro line. Light rail is meant for journeys within city centres and inner suburbs. Outer suburbs are what metro and heavy rail are for.
I would still expect a futureama style version of Michael McDowells head to be objecting to each of these extensions.
The dipshit is objecting to the charlemont metro on the grounds that it won’t have adequate car parking.
Like how far off the mark do you need to be that you can’t envisage how people will manage to use an central transit hub unless they can drive.
Can you imagine Piccadilly Circus or Leister Square underground lines being shuttered because of a lack of parking.
It beggars belief.
2050? Lads at least try be ambitious 😂
……..LOL!
Stupid question but are they looking to connect the airport to the city centre with a Luas line?
I would assume yes, but it isn’t explicitly stated.
2050!?! man I gotta emigrate to a functioning country asap
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Source: https://www.tii.ie/media/ovolpteo/luas-benefits_2024.pdf
Orbital, SW lines and Lucan are needed and would be welcomed.
I would have thought a more comprehensive system would already be in active development. The original Green Line and Red Line cost €728m together. I take the Red Line to work, it’s always rammed. It’s popular!
I give it to 3050 to actually get done
Looks good.
Sure look, a lot can happen in 25 years.
Man will land on Mars, we’ll have a new space station orbiting the moon, nuclear fusion will be only 10 more years away and Ireland will have finally dusted off these old plans from 2024 and might then decide to give one of the lines a go, what the heck, never too late.
Kind of interesting to go for “*Inner* North/South Circle”, implies an outer one, but they’ve opted for Orbital West instead of say, Outer West Circle, but then this is the first time those have appeared on an official map and they’re not so much a plan here as an aspiration. Like, it would surely also be weird not to run the North one to at least the Blanch line? Dunsink/Scribblestown is in theory up for redevelopment in the timescale involved here.
Unless there’s an idea that you’d run a circular service on a selection of the inner lines (portions of the Lucan+Red+Green?).
Luas is great for short hops, too many stops for long journeys though. Maybe the orbital routes will have more distance between stops.
You’ll get 3 extra stops on the redline and you’ll be happy you got anything
Pretty depressing to be honest – by the time this comes onboard I’ll be too old to enjoy it in any meaningful capacity. This honestly want me to just spend the next 25 years living in an actually well-designed city right now rather than just…kinda wait for it.
How about an undersea one connecting Dun Laoghaire and Howth.
I will take “Things that will never happen” for €1000
Orbital should be a continuous line along the M50, all the way to the airport. It makes no sense to have to go to the city center to get to the airport if you live in Blanchardstown.
Build an underground first.
So in the next 16 years we should expect a tiny extension to Finglas and a Lucan line? Everything else is open ended from 2040 until Pangaea reforms. Is the second route from Sandyford to Stephen’s Green just so the poshos don’t feel left out? While I’m clearly taking out my bad day at work on these designs, it does look like a good network. Perhaps I’m showing my lack of local knowledge but why not extend the Balgriffin route to the airport?
2050 ffs. Took them 9 years to complete the M50 upgrade. Not a hope they complete that by 2050.
The current Luas Red Line isn’t safe at all. Public transport in Ireland is atrocious, so city wide access is needed, but they really need to sort out the existing issues before stretching resources further. If I was living in an area where a Luas expansion was proposed, I’d want it far away from my home. I live near a Red Line stop, and I can say that from experience, it brings trouble to the surrounding areas.
Was this found in the science fiction & fantasy section?
Obviously an election coming….what about the fucking metro?
Not even started yet.
What is this bullshit? We Irish are gullible as fuck
“Post 2040” doing a lot of lifting
Expand the LUAS lines to Cork by 2150
Whoa whoa hold on. I recently saw the nepo baby of nepo babies finance minister on RTE saying how all Irelands money is going into a ‘fund’. We don’t have money for this lads. Put it away
Mad there’s places in Ireland without a bus route & they’re expanding the Luas instead of
Worst Bladerunner sequel ever.
20 fucking 50 and still no airport link
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Its genuinely baffling how unambitious the plans are for the next few years. We should just be laying a new section of track every day until the city is nothing but tracks (genuinely).
Every single one of these should be a metro line. Light rail is meant for journeys within city centres and inner suburbs. Outer suburbs are what metro and heavy rail are for.
I would still expect a futureama style version of Michael McDowells head to be objecting to each of these extensions.
The dipshit is objecting to the charlemont metro on the grounds that it won’t have adequate car parking.
Like how far off the mark do you need to be that you can’t envisage how people will manage to use an central transit hub unless they can drive.
Can you imagine Piccadilly Circus or Leister Square underground lines being shuttered because of a lack of parking.
It beggars belief.
2050? Lads at least try be ambitious 😂
……..LOL!
Stupid question but are they looking to connect the airport to the city centre with a Luas line?
I would assume yes, but it isn’t explicitly stated.
2050!?! man I gotta emigrate to a functioning country asap