[article] Proposal to bring train journey times between cities below two hours

[drumcondra commuter]

Dr Cian O'Callaghan at NIRSA in Maynooth has a blog post on it:

If an investment of this sort were to be made, perhaps a better use of this money would be to subsidise ticket prices, thus allowing Irish Rail to increase their passenger numbers with the view to making these lower ticket prices more sustainable if more people were to be convinced to use the rail network on a regular basis.

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