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Originally Posted by James Howard
I agree that a significant improvement to Malahide capacity is really necessary but the problem with this timetable is that it takes a lot from everyone else in order to deliver a very minor improvement in overall point-to-point journey times involving DART. The impact on the trains serving the 9 - 5:30 worker on the Longford commuter service is 21 minutes a day. The benefit to the DART commuter is 4 or 5 minutes a day at best and less for the person who is organised enough to know the timetable. Indeed if you consider that the average wait time is reduced by 2.5 minutes and the average running time is increased by 3, the point-to-point time is actually worse statistically.
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That may be true of passengers on the Howth branch, but it is not true for Passengers on the Malahide branch during evening peak where there are just two DART trains between 5.30 and 7.00pm to Malahide with there being five Howth's between 5.32 and 6.31.
The downside of the journey time being increased by a minute here or there is by far outweighed of the upside of a regular timetable without huge gaps like the current one has.