Luas bashing back in the Indo
Page 35 in the business section today (Monday 16th October) has a piece by Brendan Keenan in bold print reporting that a Mr. Robert Watt of Indecon addressed the annual Dublin economists' conference claiming that each peak time journey on the Luas costs the taxpayer around €6 even when the savings from fewer car journeys are counted. A claim was made that a dedicated busway could carry five times as many passengers as Luas.
Mr. Watt claims that there is insuffient demand to justify the metro from Swords via the Airport, but that housing and commercial development could take place to make it "competitive". There was not enough data to assess the value of major projects in Transport 21, most of which was not costed.
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16-10-2006, 10:49
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