Reply To: LUAS in Harcourt Street (Update No.8)

Quote “a luas for crumlin”

They didn’t want it thats why it goes down the centre of the Naas Rd.

Quote “heavy rail to navan”

Who wants rail when you are gettin a motorway to Cavan?

Quote “a luas for the airport and a dart extension to the airport and a heavy rail connection to the airport,”

The metro to the airport is about the only thing they got right on this. The Stephens green metro station was modeled on the Hauptwache station in Frankfurt. Two metro lines intersecting giving connectivity to four different directions.

Quote “a branch off the luas connects heuston to thomas street/digital hub and stephens green”

I can see the first section working as far as Christchurch, but there is no easy route for a tram system from Christchurch to St Green.

Quote “the new heuston development to connolly by a shuttle train and the through running of the kildare train, this provides the sort of capacity needed”

You still have to change at connolly even if trains bypassed Hueston, admitedly a lot better than trying to get on full buses or 2800 passengers per hour LUAS.

If the Kildare trains terminused in Spencer Dock they would have hit

James St, Christchurch, Stephens Green, Pearse st, before hitting the docklands.

This metro line is only 4kms in length about half the length of the Stephens green to DCU section.