Infrastructure

[ballinaman]

How long until Hyde park is mentioned....oh, sorry. Carry on.

[armaghniac]

Apologies to any Lurgan posters but is it not time to run the Belfast - Dublin line via Newry, especially with the continual closures on the line. It's something like 2.5 hours from Dublin to Belfast. Jesus you can get from London to Manchester in 1.30 minutes!

Every single Dublin - Belfast train stops in Newry.

I mean cut out Lurgan and just go via Newry. Maybe I'm wrong but I thought it went to Lurgan before Newry?

Yeah it does, and always at least one of Lisburn and Portadown too. Time for a high speed line that goes Belfast - Newry - Dublin. The rest of the towns currently on the route are served by IE Commuter trains or Translink commuters. I get the train twice a week and it's always packed, the demand is there, but it will never happen. At the very least a more frequent service should be implemented, one train every two hours is mad. The timetabling needs to be looked at also - the early evening trains leaving Dublin are at 5:50 and 7:00, meaning anyone working in Dublin needs to either get out early or wait around for two hours to get the train. Likewise in the morning, you get in very early or late to Dublin.

The route would do, but they need to quadruple the approaches to Belfast and Dublin so that the Enterprise is not delayed by stopping commuter trains and speed up the line elsewhere.

The Phoenix park tunnel will have some services in the Autumn. However, this will not link Heuston with Connolly, the tunnel line branches off before Heuston.

[mikehunt]

But nobody cares about the long term, they just want free water today.

now now, that is not true, we know water is not free. What we want is for the people who paid for water prior to the set up of Irish Water to come back and to start paying for it again. Do u know who or where they are? There are incompetent clowns waiting to waste their money. U have to be one of these wasters, uve defended Irish Water and now you're praising the DAA.

[blewuporstuffed]

Apologies to any Lurgan posters but is it not time to run the Belfast - Dublin line via Newry, especially with the continual closures on the line. It's something like 2.5 hours from Dublin to Belfast. Jesus you can get from London to Manchester in 1.30 minutes!

Every single Dublin - Belfast train stops in Newry.

I mean cut out Lurgan and just go via Newry. Maybe I'm wrong but I thought it went to Lurgan before Newry?

It goes Lisburn Moira Lurgan Portadown Newry stopping at Portadown and Newry. The reason it takes 2.5 hours is need for upgrades with signalling, standard of track and the fact Portadown - Belfast is a main commuter route. I think the government would do anything in its power to prevent an extra inch of track being laid. Not until they have the current network fit for purpose which let's face it is decades away

At least its some rail service, you should try living west of the Bann. 

[general_lee]

Apologies to any Lurgan posters but is it not time to run the Belfast - Dublin line via Newry, especially with the continual closures on the line. It's something like 2.5 hours from Dublin to Belfast. Jesus you can get from London to Manchester in 1.30 minutes!

Every single Dublin - Belfast train stops in Newry.

I mean cut out Lurgan and just go via Newry. Maybe I'm wrong but I thought it went to Lurgan before Newry?

It goes Lisburn Moira Lurgan Portadown Newry stopping at Portadown and Newry. The reason it takes 2.5 hours is need for upgrades with signalling, standard of track and the fact Portadown - Belfast is a main commuter route. I think the government would do anything in its power to prevent an extra inch of track being laid. Not until they have the current network fit for purpose which let's face it is decades away

At least its some rail service, you should try living west of the Bann. 

Wonder if we did a big house swap strabane for portadown and omagh for lisburn what would happen...

[muppet]

One of the reasons there is no rail link to Dublin Airport was down to the thinking in the old Aer Rianta. They objected to it for decades as they feared they would lose revenue from car parking.

[Billys Boots]

One of the reasons there is no rail link to Dublin Airport was down to the thinking in the old Aer Rianta. They objected to it for decades as they feared they would lose revenue from car parking.

The less said, the better. 

[stiffler]

Got the train to Belfast city airport last weekend , a 5 min walk from Sydenham stop.

Found it straightforward enough. It's taken me longer to walk from the car to the terminal at Aldergrove than it did From the rail stop to the terminal at city. 

[muppet]

One of the reasons there is no rail link to Dublin Airport was down to the thinking in the old Aer Rianta. They objected to it for decades as they feared they would lose revenue from car parking.

The less said, the better.

If the current main runway had been aligned as originally designed, and better suited to our winter storms, whose mansion would had to suffer flights overhead?

(Clue: Same answer)