Western rail corridor (WRC) - Capital Plan

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Originally Posted by Goods

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breaki...se-938937.html
The data shows the extent that there is demand for rail service in IE yet the system is struggling to respond with the result that trains are crowded and there is little sign of expanding the network in places like Navan, or doubling track on lines such as to Mullingar or Tullamore. Irish Rail work on the basis of limiting the service rather than allowing it grow

Originally Posted by Goods

https://amp.irishexaminer.com/breaki...mpression=true
Demand for commuter rail has never been as high and instead of investment in double track and higher frequency IR trying to reduce peak time numbers. Has to be a better way!

You do realise that IE are constrained in what they can and cannot do by what funding they receive from the government via the NTA.

Almost everything you’re blaming them on requires capital funding from government/NTA and they have dithered on that for years, especially on the rolling stock side.

Unless people make enough of a fuss about it to their TDs then things aren’t going to change. Public transport investment is always long term and that doesn’t fit into the political cycle unfortunately.