Reply To: All aboard the Luas, at last Tickets, please: the low-down on Luas
Originally posted by J. Seerski
I have to ask who runs Platform 11?
Originally published by Platform 11
Platform11
Ireland’s National Rail Transport and Development Lobby
eMail: info@platform11.orgContact Phone Number: 086-345-2651
Mailing Address:
5, Cascade Park
Oldbridge
Clonmel
Co. Tipperary
Ireland
From what I understand they were formed at a public meeting in the bankers club on Stephens Green in January 2003, initially to lobby for better facilities at Hueston Station, this led to the call for the Phoenix Park tunnel to be reopened to passenger trains. They then came up with the ‘interconnector’ proposal or backed Iarnrod Eirrean if they devised a similar one.
I’m not so sure that the interconnctor favours the South Side at the expense of the Northside, as the North City has the Luas and Drumcoundra line, large areas of the South Inner City have Nothing connected to the Dart System. Particularly Stephens Green and the un-integrated Luas, also Christchurch/Dame St
