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Originally Posted by Spinmeister
There is already heavy interchange of customers between Dart and Commuter services at Connolly Station and the Luas Red Line Connolly terminus, where the distance between the Dart/Commuter platforms and the Luas stop is similar to that being presented as some sort of drastic obstacle to integration at Docklands.
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Connolly Station was built in the 1800's. There is an actual excuse for the distance there. The Docklands Station and Luas extension are to open within a year or two of each other on what was a brownfield site all owned by the people of Ireland under the 'care' of CIE properties.
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Originally Posted by Spinmeister
The use of the Phoenix Park tunnel to Docklands for Kildare services would not add any capacity to the system, but would rather result in Kildare commuters taking longer to get to the city centre than they do currently, and prevent planned expansion in the Maynooth line and proposed Dunboyne/Pace line services.
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Hold on a second? What's this fluffy nonsense? a fully grade segregated junction exists at Glasnevin. Trains from Kildare to Docklands via the PPT and Drumcondra would not interfere at all with trains from Maynooth rnning down the Midland. He's just making this stuff up.
....oh and Barry, if you're working so closely with the RPA you should really know that it stands for
Railway Procurement Agency 