Comments on: The DART and the Phoenix Park Tunnel http://tara-foundation.org/blog/?p=501 formerly the Tara Foundation Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:42:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Colm Gogan http://tara-foundation.org/blog/?p=501&cpage=1#comment-18939 Colm Gogan Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:58:06 +0000 http://tara-foundation.org/blog/?p=501#comment-18939 I think the Phoenix Park tunnel should be reopened as soon as possible. New stations could be opened in Phibsborough, Old Cabra Road etc. A transfer station would be required in East wall so commuters from the Maynooth / Phoenix Park line could transfer onto the existing DART. This could be facilitated on existing tracks with minimal effort, without the trains overlapping. There are currently grade seperated lines here. This could allow Maynooth / Hazlehatch / Balbriggan and Greystones routes to run seperatly. Also there are 2 lines coming into Dublin from Maynooth i.e. north and south of Croke Park, but only 1 is used, why is this? Why has this not been considered by CIE? A hugh saving could be made to tax-payers etc. I think the Phoenix Park tunnel should be reopened as soon as possible. New stations could be opened in Phibsborough, Old Cabra Road etc. A transfer station would be required in East wall so commuters from the Maynooth / Phoenix Park line could transfer onto the existing DART. This could be facilitated on existing tracks with minimal effort, without the trains overlapping. There are currently grade seperated lines here. This could allow Maynooth / Hazlehatch / Balbriggan and Greystones routes to run seperatly.

Also there are 2 lines coming into Dublin from Maynooth i.e. north and south of Croke Park, but only 1 is used, why is this?

Why has this not been considered by CIE? A hugh saving could be made to tax-payers etc.

]]> By: driver24 http://tara-foundation.org/blog/?p=501&cpage=1#comment-17632 driver24 Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:41:19 +0000 http://tara-foundation.org/blog/?p=501#comment-17632 I'll have to trust the experts here, but it doesn't seem to me a likely prospect for any theory. , I’ll have to trust the experts here, but it doesn’t seem to me a likely prospect for any theory. ,

]]> By: Washington DeValera http://tara-foundation.org/blog/?p=501&cpage=1#comment-17526 Washington DeValera Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:36:47 +0000 http://tara-foundation.org/blog/?p=501#comment-17526 Quote: "An underground DART (“the Dart interconnector”) line linking Heuston Station to the Docklands billion is now on hold with funding suspended. It is now doubtful that the interconnector will proceed as planned| Claire that's in the 1st line of the rant. In the English of normal people that statement says 'funding suspended' I take that to mean 'funding suspended' Which incidently is 100% incorrect. Quote:

“An underground DART (“the Dart interconnector”) line linking Heuston Station to the Docklands billion is now on hold with funding suspended. It is now doubtful that the interconnector will proceed as planned|
Claire

that’s in the 1st line of the rant.

In the English of normal people that statement says ‘funding suspended’

I take that to mean ‘funding suspended’

Which incidently is 100% incorrect.

]]> By: Claire http://tara-foundation.org/blog/?p=501&cpage=1#comment-17524 Claire Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:17:05 +0000 http://tara-foundation.org/blog/?p=501#comment-17524 Read the article again. We did not say that. Read the article again. We did not say that.

]]> By: Washington DeValera http://tara-foundation.org/blog/?p=501&cpage=1#comment-17522 Washington DeValera Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:04:08 +0000 http://tara-foundation.org/blog/?p=501#comment-17522 Funding for the IC is NOT suspended. By this nonsense alone you undermine any point you were making in that rant. Funding for the IC is NOT suspended.

By this nonsense alone you undermine any point you were making in that rant.

]]> By: Claire http://tara-foundation.org/blog/?p=501&cpage=1#comment-17220 Claire Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:16:29 +0000 http://tara-foundation.org/blog/?p=501#comment-17220 Ewan, thank you the correction. We reproduced the error that was made by an Irish Independent article and forgot to check that particular fact properly. An amendment will go up as soon as possible. Thanks again. Ewan, thank you the correction. We reproduced the error that was made by an Irish Independent article and forgot to check that particular fact properly. An amendment will go up as soon as possible.

Thanks again.

]]> By: Ewan Duffy http://tara-foundation.org/blog/?p=501&cpage=1#comment-17219 Ewan Duffy Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:09:44 +0000 http://tara-foundation.org/blog/?p=501#comment-17219 I support the use of the Phoenix Park Tunnel, but you are not helping yourself with the mistake about the gauge. The Irish standard gauge, for which it was built to accommodate (and does so ably to this day) is 5'3", not 9'10"! Even Brunel's broad gauge was only 7'0". I support the use of the Phoenix Park Tunnel, but you are not helping yourself with the mistake about the gauge. The Irish standard gauge, for which it was built to accommodate (and does so ably to this day) is 5’3″, not 9’10″! Even Brunel’s broad gauge was only 7’0″.

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