The Nitedart issue starkly underlines the sad fact that for all its Electricity the DART remains essentially as The Good Mr Dargan designed it.
19th Century Dublin still lives and flourishes in our Planners fertile groves.
One of my greatest problems with the recent DART upgrade programme was the lack of investment in the area`s surrounding the Stations.
For example it is only in the very recent past that Booterstown for example was permitted the luxury of Public Lighting betweeen the Station and the Rock Road.
Given the somewhat fraught nature of Irish Public Order and general crime and punishment relationship then very few people will see a long dark walk from a Railway Station in the wee small hours as a good return for their investment.
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