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Originally Posted by Inniskeen
There are two solutions
1) Match infrastructure and business requirements, all the big ideas and many of the smaller ones are a nonsense without additional tracks north of Connolly. Without this the railway market share will keep falling as people will not tolerate tram link speeds for longer journeys.
2) Cater for additional DART demand by increasing set sizes and using idle rolling stock. The infrastructure is not capable of efficienly handling increased frequency without degrading already indifferent service quality for customers spending significantly more than your typical DART user.
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Well solution 1 is obvious - but I was speaking from the perspective of the reality of the situation that we are in financially - adding extra tracks isn't likely to happen as there are no funds to do it - it would be pretty much prohibitively expensive.
I will respectively disagree with your view on how to stimulate more demand for DART - a 10 minute frequency will do much more than a 15 minute one. 15 minutes is not turn up and go - 10 minutes definitely is.
Clearly there is a trade-off to be made here and the NTA have taken the view that a 10 minute DART is what they want as the premier product.