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Paul – are you tracking this website re: the Toronto Street Furniture Giveawa… I mean… Contract? All sorts of fun stuff there.
As indicated, Broadstone is another terminus. We have enough of those at Connolly, Docklands and Heuston. Trains crossing the existing line to access Broadstone could cause conflicts as happens at Howth Junction at present.
However, a cleaned up Broadstone with a LUAS nearby could be a bang-up transport museum, right in the heart of the city… not only of vehicles, but the IRRS could be induced to move their records (from Heuston I think) to the new museum.
My fear is that this press coverage is CIE not wanting RPA to take over “their” property and by proposing a heavy rail alignment they are putting a spanner in any attempt by RPA to use some of the Broadstone alignment, rather than having any real proposal to offer.
Rory W – that’s what connecting services are for, feeder buses to supply the subway. Going to work every morning I have a 500m hike to the subway but there is a bus on my street to take me there if the weather is bad. Light rail tends to have somewhat closer stops, buses closer still, heavy rail further than metro.
Good metro planning should have a series of dense buildings near each stop with low density in between to allow neighbour differentiation. Looking along Toronto’s Yonge line it’s easier to pick out some of the midtown stops with highrises, others have yet to be developed but that day is coming.
Here if you are sufficiently infirm to be unable to walk to the nearest transit stop you can book a WheelTrans pickup which is subsidised and thus the fare is the same.
Aer Arann will be taking up the Cardiff and Newquay services.
http://www.aerarann.ie/about_us/news.htm@Thomond Park wrote:
It is your denial of architectural history that is manipulation you aren’t on trial in Vienna today by any chance for a certain lecture delived in 1989?
Sorry Thomond Park but that’s essentially a breach of Godwin’s law
but that’s the point pier39. Just because county hall is there doesn’t mean fire cover is too – the CC/Corpo *may* be in breach of their obligations. If they are, it could stymie development across the city.
Wow, if I was Sean Carney I’d be laughing my head off right now. One driveby post and he started off a full scale flame war among other people.
Re: the John Dennehy quote
While expressed in a rather dumb fashion it is an interesting question – does Cork have adequate fire cover for buildings of county hall size. One would think they do, and if so it removes that issue from the hands of the NIMBYs…
couple of things
presume some of you have seen the article about Cork Airport in the Indo
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1542848&issue_id=13545 (reg required)
seems like a farce to me!light rail to the airport – have you seen the gradient up to ORK? Over that distance? Not a chance I’m afraid without some very expensive tunnelling and viaducting.
I have a question though – what’s this I read in de Paper about the Carrigtwohill dev plan being varied to facilitate the amgen development. Anyone know why they couldn’t have used already zoned land?
The Port Tunnel is looking more like a fiasco every day with leaks and insufficient roof concrete – if DCC have to pay another 400m euro as the contractors want (despite a design/build contract!) it will seriously damage the interconnector’s chances.
I have less problem with the addition than I have the monstrous carbuncle of a carpark they shoved on the other side.
I’m glad Indaver got approved, if only because now Ireland will be forced to deal with its own waste, either via incineration or reduction. About 11 years ago I used to write Trans Frontier Shipment documents to ship waste from Dublin to the UK because the facilities to deal with it didn’t exist in Ireland.
I suppose Jim M will get whatever he wants now…
http://www.finfacts.com/irelandbusinessnews/publish/article_10003810.shtmldodger
loop line bridge will be carrying Maynooth-Greystones DARTs when T21 is complete (sometime in 2040 after each government change “reviews” it and “re-plans” it) – interconnector will be carrying Balbriggan-Hazelhatch DART.
The problem with this whole plan is that it is literally as good as it gets. Olivia Mitchell has some decidely dubious notions about transport and has the Heuston-Spencer Dock interconnector in her sights. If there is a change of government a “review” (a delay) is certain.
Platform 11’s take:
http://www.platform11.org/news/news.php?year=2005&no=14.html
