Speaking for myself I couldn't care less about Sutton to Blackrock or the like - arguing to retain that sort of thing is utterly unjustified. What I am talking about is the convenience of switching from one service to another if coming from the Northside and going on to Connolly.
From what I've read here today, I'm already convinced that retaining the DART route over the Loop Line from the Northside is a bad idea, but a service of some sort to Connolly should be retained given it's a mainline station with a bus station across the street - occasionally retained - absolutely not a wholescale retention of it and most certainly outside of rush hour. It just seems ludicrous not to do it and instead make people go to a Luas stop in the Docklands, or double back on another DART from Pearse.
If it's deemed that keeping this is a bad idea because more passengers will be inconvenienced than will benefit, I can certanly live with that as you can still transfer, but I think it would be a shame to lose the convenience to the passenger - which is what mass transit is partially about, in my opinion.
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