The reason why it should be delayed six months are
1. It makes the service significantly worse for everyone except DART users
2. The only DART users who will benefit are those travelling less than about 4 stops. For all others, the increased journey time will more than absorb the reduced wait time.
3. The unions object and we can expect disruption
So what if money is lost - there is no point in spending money making the service on balance worse for everyone. If the city centre resignalling allow 10 minute DART with significantly less disruption elsewhere, then go with it when the system is ready. If not, serious questions need to be asked about the spending for 120 million of public money with no positive results on customer experience.
A cynic might suggest that the urgency is because we're in for six months of hell in putting a timetable in place that the system can't cope with and when the resignalling project is complete we'll all be so grateful for the improvement that we'll think that was money well spent and all is good.
Also, I fail to see why we should do stuff that they do across the water. The UK is hardly a paragon of excellence in rail operations.
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