Fine Gael to relaunch the Metro for the 400th time ahead of the election.
It’s a joke there is no service from Dublin Airport to the city centre.
NI doesn’t have a subway system lol.
It makes no sense to visualise the likes of metro availability at a national scale since it’s a piece of infrastructure for a city. Not surprising given that particular sub though.
A more useful representation of data would be something along the lines of showing cities with a certain population density that have a metro. Then you’re actually seeing which cities by their size have metros.
Going by country borders for systems that generally just serve single cities is a bit silly.
I think some people are going to be disappointed when Dublin finally builds Metrolink and people realise that while a high quality north-south link connecting Swords and the Airport to the city is great, it does not suddenly turn Dublin into a transport utopia. Moreover, treating a metro as the be all and end all of transport isn’t really helpful, because there’s a lot of other stuff we should be building and that needs support. Look what’s happening to Bus Connects. Looks at how people have even tried to water down Dart+!
You also then get people proposing silly lines to areas that don’t warrant them, purely to delay other, more realistic projects.
Controversial opinion: Dublin doesn’t need a metro. Manchester is comparable in size and has none either. What it does have is the most extensive tram network in the UK as well as a train to it’s Airport. All money being poured down the drain for the Dublin Metro should’ve been spent on LUAS and Dart extension instead, which makes a lot more sense for the scale of the city.
Gosh. I wonder why Iceland doesn’t have one. They wouldn’t have to heat it. Toasty.
Our greatest shame
Apparently the company that dug the channel tunnel offered to dig out the Dublin metro for free if they could claim the ticket sales for the first 10yrs. For whatever reason the idea was rejected so they had to pack up the machinery and take it home.
I don’t know why a rail link connector with the Dublin-Belfast line has never been presented as an option if a metro is unpalatable from an expense perspective.
There is literally a green belt between the airport and it.
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Fine Gael to relaunch the Metro for the 400th time ahead of the election.
It’s a joke there is no service from Dublin Airport to the city centre.
NI doesn’t have a subway system lol.
It makes no sense to visualise the likes of metro availability at a national scale since it’s a piece of infrastructure for a city. Not surprising given that particular sub though.
A more useful representation of data would be something along the lines of showing cities with a certain population density that have a metro. Then you’re actually seeing which cities by their size have metros.
Going by country borders for systems that generally just serve single cities is a bit silly.
I think some people are going to be disappointed when Dublin finally builds Metrolink and people realise that while a high quality north-south link connecting Swords and the Airport to the city is great, it does not suddenly turn Dublin into a transport utopia. Moreover, treating a metro as the be all and end all of transport isn’t really helpful, because there’s a lot of other stuff we should be building and that needs support. Look what’s happening to Bus Connects. Looks at how people have even tried to water down Dart+!
You also then get people proposing silly lines to areas that don’t warrant them, purely to delay other, more realistic projects.
Controversial opinion: Dublin doesn’t need a metro. Manchester is comparable in size and has none either. What it does have is the most extensive tram network in the UK as well as a train to it’s Airport. All money being poured down the drain for the Dublin Metro should’ve been spent on LUAS and Dart extension instead, which makes a lot more sense for the scale of the city.
Gosh. I wonder why Iceland doesn’t have one. They wouldn’t have to heat it. Toasty.
Our greatest shame
Apparently the company that dug the channel tunnel offered to dig out the Dublin metro for free if they could claim the ticket sales for the first 10yrs. For whatever reason the idea was rejected so they had to pack up the machinery and take it home.
Fuck fg/ff they have destroyed this country
https://preview.redd.it/ltqkorzj1t8c1.png?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fd33af95b94c0f342279215264994faf8bebb22e
I don’t know why a rail link connector with the Dublin-Belfast line has never been presented as an option if a metro is unpalatable from an expense perspective.
There is literally a green belt between the airport and it.
https://preview.redd.it/pdzcq25l1t8c1.jpeg?width=1031&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=51a2a024f5dff25c1c3cc25163a757043c6c0e04
Meanwhile Warsaw checking the mark for Poland just barely, with 1 metro line
So for the most part lower population countries have no metro and higher population ones do.
Embarrassing. Dublin is a flat-landed embarrassing mess of a capital city. Europe’s richest nation has Europe’s shittest capital city.
Is the luas not a metro?
Ah yes, we’re in good company with… *checks notes* Bosnia, North Macedonia, Moldova, and Lithuania.
Iceland only has 330k people and a geology that’s not exactly conducive to metro systems, so they get a pass. What’s our excuse?
I’m just sat here in the doctor’s waiting room chuckling over the idea of them trying to install a metro in Iceland. So many ways that could go wrong.
Ireland is a 3rd world infrastructure country. I just hope those government taxes keep rolling in on easy street or we are truly fucked.
we dont have a proper public transport system period.
bloody disgrace.
There is no metro in Northern Ireland