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Unread 26-01-2015, 10:43   #4
James Howard
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The whole operation would just take too long to be viable. The Heuston options are to either a double reversal or use the remote platform. But they would still need to cater for the 90% of customers who would want to go to the city centre as opposed to the airport.

The article itself quotes a 3:30 time to get to the airport which would mean that the Heuston to Airport section would be about an hour. It would be far more efficient and quicker to just have the intercity services stop at Adamstown and have an express coach transfer to the airport from there.

The idea of a heavy rail airport link in Dublin makes very little sense. The airport is too close to the city to make it necessary especially when the massively underused port tunnel makes it a 20 minute taxi trip from docklands. I would be highly surprised if Irish Rail could beat a port-tunnel bus run from Connolly even. Then there is the issue that hardly anybody wants to go into the city centre from the airport.

A luas line is an entirely different proposition.
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