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Originally Posted by Mark Gleeson
If you have 2.8billion under the bed let the minister know. The problem with metro north is the large up front capital cost and that it only benefits a single corridor
Its an impossible sell outside Dublin
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Metro North opens up an entirely new corridor with a capacity of 12000 pdph and could be expected to carry significantly more than 16 million passengers using the current DART system. It would be idiotic to dismiss it despite the up front capital costs. It is better to get it right than to throw a few hundred million at a hopelessly flawed scheme.
I would love to see both DART and mainline trains in the airport, but only if the proposal is operationally viable and delivers improved service. While
Metro North doesn't integrate well with existing mainline rail services it ticks a lot more boxes than a spur from Clongriffin to the Airport.