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Originally Posted by Gary
I assume the Greens are in favour of the reopening of the PP Tunnel? If so and they get transport portfolio what sort of timeline do you think it would take to go ahead.
Also curious what sort of journey time would it take to go from Heuston to Connolly via PPT? Will it save people say on the Kildare route much time?
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Timeline: it's being used right now so timeline is irrelevent.
How long does it take? Depends on what way they do it. Ideally the trains would stop at platform 11 at heuston (thats where we got the name from) and go up to Connolly. Perhaps 20 mins. Depends if they want to put in a station or two - like they planned over two decades ago - along the way and it depends on getting the slots correct.
To give a concrete example up till a few years ago the last Limerick to Dublin train on Sundays went to Connolly, but it pulled into huston first, everyone got off, it pulled out backwards by another loco - then went to connolly and this all took an hour. Proved it can be done.
IE know it can be done, we know it can be done. Problem is, a new face in the DoT will have to know it can be done as well, becasue IE will tell that new face that it cannot be done.