Metro – interesting idea
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A stop there could be good alright – it’s a good looking building on our main street after all – but that’s all it’d be really – a stop. I would expect a central station to be a place where you can change from one mode of transport to another.
Unfortunately his statement in the paper today seemed to me to indicate that that’s as far as the line would go and it’s a half assed effort at reducing costs. If he’d stick to the DTO’s own Platform for Change document the interchange on the line would be at Tara street so at least it’d connect to DART.
After years of waiting Connolly and Heuston are linked (by Luas touch wood) and now planners terminate a line at Stephens Green and by the looks of things maybe even Carlton.
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If the central station was on O’Connell Street then where would it connect with the DART? As ew said, a central station should be where you can change from one major line to another. It’d be ludicrous to have different lines that don’t intersect each other anywhere, meaning people have to leave one station and walk to another to complete some journeys.
I’m assuming that they’ll connect at Tara Street, which would make that the central station, not anywhere else.
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I’ve heard that the line’s use for freight is quite limited for modern lo/lo containers as the tunnel section is too low for a trolley and container but if you put them on the lower style trolleys with the container going between the wheels the longer trolley can’t make the narrow bends. (That was one of the many reasons that freight has to go by road and that we need a port tunnel.)
Can anyone confirm if there’s any truth in this?
And is there any reason that this line is not used for commuter traffic?
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