Re: Re: Limerick Transport

When you write about LRT for Limerick city I presume you would be talking about Trams like the LUAS in Dublin? I wonder would a population of just a 100.000 be enough to justify such a system?

Ideally the trams should criss-cross the city centre and I can only think of three destinations for them to serve i.e.

Route: Parkway (Valley) S.C. / University / Plassey Technological park.
Route: Crescent S.C. / Regional Hospital / Raheen Industrial estate.
Route: Ennis road / Maternity / Gaelic Grounds / Coonagh S.C.

In my opinion to run the city trams on the existing rail network would not achieve much.

• Colbert station is not central enough to the city centre.
• It is a cul-de-sac station.
• The university / Plassey Technological park are not served by it.
• The Ennis road area / Coonagh S.C. are also not served by it.
• The existing rail network runs only on the peripheral of the Raheen area.

That would mean to me that the trams would have to share the roads / streets with other vehicles to service these routes.

The street trams would then have the same congestion problems as the buses and worse when some incident blocks their way, it cannot overtake it like a bus can.

I think a bus system with QBCs would serve Limerick city better.