witconor
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@PTB wrote:
Bus trams are a farce because they are nothing more than busses being run off of overhead power lines. …
They are sometimes refered to as guided busses, but why not use normal busses. The variation is slight, and i’m sure that Bus trams cost more as the overhead lines have to be sorted out. Why don’t they give us proper trams if thery are going to do it at all?
I don’t think that the Bus Eireann bus trams will run off overhead power lines. I’m pretty certain that they are proposing long low floor diesel / diesel-electric buses like this http://busexplorer.com/PHP/MidPage.php?id=870 or this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_StreetCar. They hope to start trials of these in Cork this summer so there won’t be any powerlines.
@mickeydocs wrote:
preferrable to whom?
How about another option. Let’s scrap Dublin, Cork, Shannon, Galway, Farranfore, Knock. Let’s knock them down.
Let’s build an airport in the heart of the country that’s accessible to all areas of the country, let’s say we build this in Tipperary or Kilkenny, equidistant to Cork and Dublin, and quite close to Galway, Waterford and Limerick.
Let’s then build a railway network built around this airport. We could then have a rail network that makes all areas of the country accessible, and an airport that is within one hour of all main population hubs. The airport is now used by all four million citizens, and is thus able to provide a much better range of services than either Cork, Dublin or Shannon do right now (let’s face it, if we want to fly longhaul we always go via London, Paris, or Amsterdam).
This solution means that the majority of our citizens are no longe obliged to have to travel to go to Dublin so as to fly to the United States. The country gets an equitable transport infrastructure, and for much less than the proposed one billion that is to be spent on Dublin airport.Sounds like Zaventem (Brussels National) Airport in Belgium!
