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Originally Posted by Inniskeen
Problem with DART Underground is that it will signigantly degrade services for a large coterie of existing users due to inadequate capacity and infrastructure. It is an element but without additional tracks on the northern line and elsewhere it is of limited net benefit
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What utter tosh. If you are travelling from somewhere on the northern DART line to somewhere on the southern DART line, you'll have a change at Pearse, but should still see a significant benefit from increased train paths and reduced conflicts. I agree that widening the northern line would be massively beneficial, and will eventually be necessary, but extra tracks without the interconnector will only provide limited benefit as there's nowhere for extra trains to go at present, while the interconnector would provide huge benefit to the existing network and open up a huge area of the city centre to rail users.
Sorry to dismiss your assertion, but a minor inconvenience to your current journey is not a significant degradation of service.
James