niall murphy
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Are you actually thinking straight saying luas has adequate capacity. The DART really only has a catchment on one side, it has 6carriage trains which are bursting at the seams at peak times.
The Luas line B which will hopefully incorporate metro to the airport has large population catchments on both sides, serves the city centre better than the DART and your claiming that sufficient capacity can be provided by 2 carriage tram units???
GET REAL!!
Are you mad. It is essential that public transport lines link in a city. The idea of such a system is that people can travel easily around a city. Imagine being on the metro in Paris, then realising it was a stand alone line and you’d a ten minute walk before you can get your connection. It’s totally absurd.
I mean say somebody out shopping for the day as an example. They should be able to get on at Jervis Station, Get a connection to metro at o’connell street and then continue their shopping trip at the new Dundrum Centre.
As rightly pointed out above the metro shouldn’t terminate at Stephens Green. It should go the extra 2km to Ranelagh and connect with what is now luas line B. Perhaps the existing street tram lines could link with future luas lines and provide local on street services.
Anyway as far as I’m aware luas line B from the canal onwards is practically metro standard anyway.
My main point is that it is essential that lines link in order to provide a citywide transport network
Dont agree that Westmoreland Street or Dame Street would be ruined. Depending where the roadway dropped down perhaps halfway up westmoreland street people can still easily cross the road. This would be the beginning of this public space and could go right up to Grafton St. Think of the traffic flow improvements there would be by the removal of many pedestrian crossings around this area as well as providing a truely magnificent new focus point for people in the city….
On another point imagine underpasses on the quays at either end of o’connell bridge. Could provide for a long boulevard from o’connell st, across and including the bridge and into westmoreland st. Just another thing I thought of before. Might be difficult with the quay walls though
Something that has never been used in Dublin but is common as muck in most cities is the idea of underpasses in city centre. It wouldn’t be difficult to use cut and cover to put the trafficways underground in college green and create a fantastic civic space for pedestrians etc. Would completely change the city. Anyone else have any similar ideas?
