The Madrid Metro is a circle line and thus hasn't got the same demand problems the core route the Dublin metro will have
This ain't Madrid, we have laws to follow, much of what was done in Madrid could be done here in terms of contracting. In terms of spec we need a big system not some cut down rubbish the RPA wanted to push
The Madrid 3 car concept is useless here and the numbers show that, that means bigger stations and costs tend to grow massively when you are playing with anything underground
And to correct Rory O'Connor's numbers the DART shifts 14,000 an hour in a heavily restricted network it is planned to move to 22,400, the orignal metro plan couldn't even break 19,000 I got them good there
http://www.platform11.org/reports/20...o_eng_eval.pdf