What is a metro, and why is it different from the dart or our electric commuter trains?
I don’t think it’s that embarrassing at all. We only have one city with a sufficiently large population in which underground rail *could* make sense and that’s Dublin. Light rail (in the Luas) is just as appropriate – when done properly, might I add.
Our second-biggest city, Cork, is far smaller than the vast majority of the places illustrated on the map.
Should Liverpool be added?
We don’t need a metro, just more toll roads and more bike lanes. That will teach those pesky motorist!
We need more motorways first… Don’t even have a link between cork and limerick or Waterford.
We have an allergy to public transport investment. It’s like our NIMBYism problem. Not sure there is a cure tbh. We might as well be small town America in our attitudes to a lot of stuff.
Since 1922 we built two and a bit tramlines (after huge controversy) and electrified a bit of 19th century coastal railway and are still going on about it like it was a lunar mission and put in diesel commuter trains in cities, as is that’s a normal thing to do…
The all island rail strategy just looks like yet another report. Crayons on maps stuff!
Maybe if we had a monorail it would put us on a map
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What is a metro, and why is it different from the dart or our electric commuter trains?
I don’t think it’s that embarrassing at all. We only have one city with a sufficiently large population in which underground rail *could* make sense and that’s Dublin. Light rail (in the Luas) is just as appropriate – when done properly, might I add.
Our second-biggest city, Cork, is far smaller than the vast majority of the places illustrated on the map.
Should Liverpool be added?
We don’t need a metro, just more toll roads and more bike lanes. That will teach those pesky motorist!
We need more motorways first… Don’t even have a link between cork and limerick or Waterford.
We have an allergy to public transport investment. It’s like our NIMBYism problem. Not sure there is a cure tbh. We might as well be small town America in our attitudes to a lot of stuff.
Since 1922 we built two and a bit tramlines (after huge controversy) and electrified a bit of 19th century coastal railway and are still going on about it like it was a lunar mission and put in diesel commuter trains in cities, as is that’s a normal thing to do…
The all island rail strategy just looks like yet another report. Crayons on maps stuff!
Maybe if we had a monorail it would put us on a map