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  • June 13, 2006 at 12:07 am #734613
    ctesiphon
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    Perhaps the Western Rail Corridor will be just what the doctor ordered to get this imaginative scheme back up and running?

    June 13, 2006 at 10:13 am #734614
    Anonymous
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    The WRC should happen as designed by James Nix in 2003 as a link between Cork and Galway via Shannon airport and Limerick. The idea of the ‘clockfaced timetable’ as based on the Swiss model detailed in Chaos at the Crossroads would connect Galway with Waterford, Limerick & Cork with one small re-opening from Athenry to Ennis and cost roughly €55m.

    Tuam is to get a dual carriageway on a direct route which will be faster than a diverted rail service via Athenry; if rail is to be selected it has to be viable which the WRC north of Athenry clearly is not.

    Like this proposal it is well intentioned but the numbers do not stack up.

    June 13, 2006 at 11:02 am #734615
    ctesiphon
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    @Thomond Park wrote:

    Like this proposal it is well intentioned but the numbers do not stack up.

    That’s pretty much what I was getting at, TP. Should have made it clearer that my tongue was firmly in my cheek. Sorry. But I thought ‘this imaginative scheme’ might have given a clue.;)

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