Is there anything else which needs done on the route while this is ongoing?
How about double-tracking the bridge over the Boyne (like it used to be) to enable future hourly Belfast services?
It would have a limited impact on passengers at this time:
- no extra time delay for Belfast passengers for Dublin changing at Dundalk instead of Drogheda and using the M1
- no effect on Drogheda passengers to Dublin
- adverse effects on Dundalk-Drogheda passengers - would need a limited bus substitution between the two for local and Enterprise passengers
- possible adverse effect on Dundalk - Dublin passengers - would need a lot of express buses to serve Dundalk commuters plus the Enterprise passengers (but would this really be worse for local pax than having to change in Drogheda??)
No idea how long it would take to build though.
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