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Originally Posted by StephenM
So what can they do to improve capacity? At the moment give or take peak hour has trams running every 4 minutes.
I take it that longer trams are not that much of an option and more frequencies will result in pile ups at the Stephens Green terminus, dont want to spread the service too thin either, perhaps a quarter of trams should operate Sandyford - Stephens Green and the other 3/4's should operate to Cherrywood. That might give a chance to the service incase of a problem while also providing reasonable capacity for all.
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They can ramp up frequency to 2.5 minutes and extend the trams to 50m. All the BX route options are designed to take 50m platfroms (60m including 2 5m ramps either side). They are also examining having short running trams to Sandyford and back while others would run the full length to Cherrywood/Bray. Ratio of short running and full distance not decided yet.