Metro North-South

2050? rte… we can lay some high speed cables aswell

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coz it’s Miiiiiiiiiiiles from the DART and has a shit bus service?

yeh i was being sarcastic. RTE staff can walk from Sydney Parade and can hop straight on a 46A-E, 84(X) and a myriad services from many parts of Dublin. The case for Metro to serve what is not a large site anyway, is one that should be confined to missarchi’s basement

Forgive me for being a noob on this issue, I was just wondering:

Are there no plans for a metro line to cover the major tourist hotspots of the city, and create new ones? It seems at present to be more or less designed for commuters and people getting to the airport.

Wouldn’t stations at Temple Bar, Grafton Street, College Green, Heuston Station and St James’s Gate be a great addition to getting around the city? And are there station planned for the docklands? And wouldn’t a station in the new Museum District in Smithfield by like an extra shot of adrenaline into the area, helping it become a real, organic cultural quarter for the city?

Sorry this is probably all out there I just can’t get my head around all the different plans etc.

EDIT: Also want to echo missarchi’s thought in another thread about the metro:

@missarchi wrote:

I would also like to see bullet trains run through the inter connector every hour cork > Belfast

@ac1976 wrote:

What new Museum district? I haven’t heard of this!

Check out the interconnector/ Dart underground it covers some of the locations u mentioned above and integrates with other modes of transport to connect the others 🙂

http://www.irishrail.ie/projects/dart_underground.asp

I just read about it recently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_District,_Dublin,_Ireland

It sounds to me like ust the sort of thing Dublin needs, I could easily see it becoming Dublin’s answer to Southbank if the city plays it’s cards right.

And I hadn’t even heard of the underground DART plan! All these developments in Dublin.. it’s so hard to picture how it will all come together. I don’t actually live in Dublin at the moment but I plan to, and I follow these boards with excitement at the prospects of a city I already love becoming even better.

But I’d be really disappointed if they get this Metro plan wrong. Is the plan not to create a London/Paris style underground transport service to get people to the main hubs and attractions of the city quickly? Having stations on a service like that at places like Temple Bar and Grafton Street and the docklands etc. would really bring the whole city together and make the area served by each station all the more iconic.

And it really all has to come together as a cohesive network that anyone, be them from Dublin or Beijing, can just take as being “the Dublin Underground”.

If it turns out to be just an express link to the airport and suburbs… that’d be a huge shame.

So this DART line will interconnect with the metros? Will it have stations along these streets like the London underground? Maybe this will effectively be the circle line to the more utilitarian North and West lines?

*enters a lucid dream*

Ding! “Welcome to – Museum, exit here for the National Museum and… Tate Dublin” 😉 😉

*watches as crowds of excited tourists funnel out.

All the same I just hope metro north, west and this DART underground can come together as a unified underground and provide access to all the areas anyone would want on a typical day out or holiday to Dublin. I know Dublin is a small city but as a frequent visitor I almost feel like the more stations in the city centre the better, the one issue I have with Dublin is even it’s city centre still feels just slightly disjointed. Am I wrong to say that?

You guys know 100x better than me, I am just trying to learn about the city and what it’s becoming.