Stephen Eccles
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:The only Metro that will work in Dublin is the
:version that is constantly being promoted by
:Frank Mac Donald, ie the Circle line, including
:the disused tunnel from Heuston to Connolly,
:then adding on to the Docklands,The tunnel is not disused at all! Frank McDonald knows little or nothing about the reality of Irish (or any other) railway transport. He is just another one of the guru/pundits, all talk, but when you get down to the technical details he knowns nothing. It’s nothing more tangible that his philosophical mandate and let the taxpayers and the engineers complete his visions. Frank is great on the urban planning stuff, but his knowledge of transport is infantile. “His” project will permanently destroy valuable heavy rail lines in central Dublin/Docklands and not make full use of them. When I need somebody to lecture me on the evil of PVC windows I call Frank McDonald, when I need somebody to explain rail transport I’ll go with Platform11, James Nix from DIT or some of the people at Irish Rail News who actually know what they are talking about when comes to rail transport.
:Clarity, clarity, clarity is needed.
:And vision.you want vision clarity and more importantly technical backup by people who understand railways as a working technical and operations asset and not some Green Party-esque “wouldn’t it be nice” malarkey then go to http://www.platform11.org it’s all there.
One of the lowest frequencies mainlines in Europe with a station that would be handling at least twice as many arrivals as departures as is currently done if it was in any other European country. It a shambolic situation of bad management, unions that want more money for changing rosters and operating a timetable based on the Victorian rosters of the Great Northern Railway which is still used to this day for locomotive crew change over. On platforms three and four at Connolly the Rosslare trains (which should not cross the river) sits on the platform at rush hour for 40 minutes because this is how it has always been done and nobody has thought of changing it. When questioned about this Joe Magher of Irish Rail replied “we have first class timetable peopleâ€. The park tunnel as a limited shuttle route could start in the morning if the will was there. The capacity issue is red herring. Platform11 have finally nailed this crowd for what they are.
