LUAS in Harcourt Street (Update No.8)

Originally posted by Brian Hanson
Diapora, I am amazed how you are knocking LUAS constantly and for no reason other than I think you are completly ignorant of urban light rail systems. They work and they cost money to build – END OF STORY.

I have never knocked the actual
product, I can’t it still hasn’t arrived.

Originally posted by Brian Hanson
If you want to know the real value and proof that the Harcourt Street traders crying poverty is utter hyperbole look at this article:

http://www.platform11.org/rail_bashing.html

You don’t have to be poor to suffer loss, you do have to be brazen to leave Harcourt St in the mess it was in. To let contractors away with it sets a dangerous precedent.

Originally posted by Brian Hanson
Now go find me one residential or commerical property developer who is using easy access to buses as a selling point.

Harcourt St is already amply conected, but look in the property sections it often says good public transport LINKS. LINKS being buses.

Originally posted by Brian Hanson
LUAS will be a major sucess story in the history of Irish public transport (alongisde the sucess of the DART which people like you claimed was a waste as well).

I hope that August (if the opening date is met for once and not another false promise) is not the high point of the commuter, the metro interconnector would be a real start.

Originally posted by Brian Hanson
You are just talking in the most begruding and little Irelander terms. It was no more expensive to build that compareble systems anywhere else and since was is Nothingham a major European capital city!

LUAS also cost a multiple of the Strasbourg system even allowing indexing at construction inflation rates. The Hague is hardly a bustling metropolis either so I don’t see that Capital equates to anything taking New York v Washington.

Originally posted by Brian Hanson
I think you need to do a bit travelling to places such as Vienna, Amsterdam and you’ll quickly realise how much of an asset to Dublin LUAS is going to be.

I lived in Frankfurt in 1991-92 and the strassenbahn was only one small component in an excellent multi-modal integrated transport system. the principal mode was the S-Bahn or surface/metro standard Gauge Train. The trams were for the last Kilometre alone

Originally posted by Brian Hanson
No disrecpect man, but you are just wrong and you need to start thinking about the big picture. LUAS in the long run will be a looked upon as a bargin considering the benefits it will being to the city of Dublin.

I stand by the NITL audit of Irish transport I recommend you post that on your site instead of a polemic on ratepayers who stood up and were counted.