Donal O’Donovan: come i collegamenti ad alta velocità all’aeroporto di Dublino potrebbero trasformare i viaggi irlandesi | Irish indipendente
https://m.independent.ie/business/donal-odonovan-how-high-speed-connections-to-dublin-airport-could-transform-irish-travel/a431275256.html
di WickerMan111
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I remember going on a family holiday in the mid 90s and being told “oh we will be able to get the dart straight to the airport soon”.
I do not see it happening in my lifetime.
> But by 2040, the numbers needing to use the airport will be much higher.
Needing? Nah, people heading to the UK for a day trip don’t need to use the airport. People coming here to do a Park Run don’t need to use the airport.
Dublin airport is already well connected from the centre. Never had an issue getting there. Dunno why they insist on this ridiculous train. Much bigger infrastructural/transport related fish to fry. I.e. connecting donegal to Dublin, Cork to limerick etc.
Yeah I don’t get the fanfare over the metro link of course it’s needed but serious rail infrastructure would be far more beneficial to the rest of the country like being able to get a train from Waterford or Limerick to Dublin Airport would be unreal.
The way the Dutch have made Schipol totally integrated into their rail network is immense.
Simply not gonna happen. Full stop, end of discussion, no need to waste tens of millions on consultants, this is just not gonna happen.
The plan for this was put forward in 2001. It’s genuinely amazing that they haven’t even managed to break ground in 24 years and counting.
And housing. Tho k about how much it would cha he this country if Dublin, cork, Galway, Dundalk had actual suburbs people could travel in and out from.
“Our busiest airport must be linked to the main rail network by 2040, under EU law”
Does this include Metrolink, or do they want us to build a heavy rail connection as well?
Can’t read the article but with stuff like the passenger cap would probably mean another airport will need to be built. What would the point of building a high speed rail to the airport that is already at capacity ? And is already well served by public transport.
Also to where would this rail line go? Does it need a different type of track? Would our existing train stations be able to service it?
Also a Space elevator in Dublin would transform Irish space travel, but neither is going to happen in our lifetime.
As things stand it’s like the Galway city bypass, expanding the or supplementing the M 50 et cetera it’s just never going to happen.
Never mind the planning and legal challenges which there would be lots of. Projects like these will take more than one election cycle. No TD or Senator is going to alienate a large part of their electorate and lose votes and they can’t hope to get them back with interest before the next election they stand in.
And there is an even bigger problem, where the f**k is the connection going to go. The whole area is already built up.
The right job would be to possibly have it as the start of the greater Dublin Metro Underground system. But that is never going to happen. If you thought the Children’s Hospital was a financial black hole with no end in sight wait until the money boys get their hands on this.
Thanks, yes, we know. We have no end of people with crayons drawing on maps, we lack people who are willing to give the go-ahead to building it.
Metrolink isn’t light rail, when are the media going to do a brief course to understand what it is?
Add on top fines for not achieve green house gas emissions….
On the rail link, they still have plenty of time for multiple governments to continue to kick the can down the road and then ask for more time..standard rinse and repeat stuff.
Obviously nobody wants fines as it’s the tax payer that will have to fund them, but on this critical infrastructure, the EU should have fines for having no design/route/plans by x date, no contract by y date, and, building work to commence no later than z date.
Its way beyond acceptable that we have went through one boom cycle with no metro or rail link to the airport, and are well into ” we have never had it so good” times (as per George Lee) and still nothing but an over priced hospital that is still not built to show for it.
All there is is indecision, and that’s a decision. If they did not have to do a budget each year, they would probablu put it off, year after year.