There are differances.
[quote][So they are walking to it from a tube station a fair distance away? I can't even recall a bus stop outside GOS either now that I think about it./QUOTE]
Plenty of busses stop adjcent to the Mater/Temple Street. No matter how you do it, they'll all be nearer than the proposed station on the midland line.
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CIE have also recently hinted that the Docklands station may be retained.
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They can hint all they like, put its a condition of the planning permission for the station that it is only for 10 years (and the ten years started in 2006) so its not their call.
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So is the Dockland in terms of serving the Luas Point line and it still got built
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Difference is that the LUAS is intended to be integrated with the interconnector not the temp station which is being currently being built. The proposal here is to waste money on a station on a line that is currently scheduled to close in 2016. You can further eat into the operational time of the line with the construction of the Childrens wings of the hospital. So what do we get - about five years of use out of it?
Dont get me wrong, myself and Philip were both strong advocates of this project before (Philip still is) but AFAIK there is a problem further up line with getting the pieces to fit. And if the interconnector comes along (and it must) then the workings for this line are redundant in any event.
To keep the temp station open means not doing the interconnector station.
As this is now a pure infrastructural thread its only fair that we keep it open till 22.00 tonight for non-members postings and then its off to the members section.