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You could always use the large CIE site out the back of Connolly and send the buses out via the port tunnel.
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Oh course you are 100% correct, this perfect location for a new central bus station was first mooted years ago. It's a perfect site if you are dealing with a public transport company that is. However you are not. You are dealing with CIE which is a public sector oursourcing employment agency, and a property developer as their core business. CIE also dabbles in public transport on the side from time to time.
Hence the Broadstone idea. It had the least land value in the CIE property portfolio and therefore the most likely to be used for public transport.
This is CIE we are talking about here not a public transport company. We have to work within the parameters of CIE core business model (property development) when talking about public transport development in Ireland.
There isn't a hope in hell of the land beside Connolly being turned into anything other than office buildings with some token mention of being "integrated with the rail station" - this will be a door in the side of the office block leading into Connolly. It'll be called something like Great Northern House and will contain over 1,000 car parking spaces.