The Metro is an essential part of a bigger public transport future for Dublin. It’s about building a network to facilitate all sorts of journeys, not simple A-B or A-C thinking.
At best, I think this is short-term thinking. Busconnects is the current dogma when it comes to Dublin's transport problems. But even busconnects own proponents admit that it will, literally, run out of road in a decade or so, and be unable to meet future requirements. So, eventually, we're gonna need a metro. But, in the meantime, for the sake of this flawed busconnects plan, we're going to chop down mature trees, corral cars into fewer and fewer lanes, migrate bus lanes onto footpaths and build 'floating' bus stops between those footpaths and the roadway. Elegant solution it ain't.
In fairness to DAA, it’s a matter for the airlines as to which airports they wish to use. They’re guided by market demand, scheduling priorities etc.
Ah, you’re wrong Brendan. Business people and tourists can’t be expected to get the bus. This isn’t Calcutta. It’s a farce that we don’t have a Metro or tram or train.
I was recently heading off for the weekend and decided to get the bus rather than my usual drive + short term car park. It took longer to get from Sandyford to Dublin Airport than Dublin Airport to Germany. Everyone’s circumstances are different depending on where you live but next time I’ll be back in the car. Nothing like arriving home and cruising past the confused tourists looking for the train station and the 90 people in a queue for the taxi rank, into my own car and onto the M50 for a handy 35 minute spin home.Much better than the Metro :
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The buses take people to different places all over Dublin , and the major cities.
Brendan
When they can get them. They tend not to know the ‘Zone 18’ Free Now thing and end up queuing at the rank which can be problematic at times.
It's a key part of an integrated public transport system. That's the key metric. You don't build one wall of a house and then say it's a waste of money because it won't hold up the roof.
In a city the size of Dublin the number of potential journeys rounds to infinity.
It does! 47 km of Metro and as much again being built.
Ah here, Brendan! Colm McCarthy is on the record as opposing Luas and the Dart. Imagine Dublin now without either.
How come almost every other city of Dublin's size has come to the opposite conclusion? Are they all wrong?
Someone has a decades-long track record (no pun intended) of opposing all rail-based infrastructure for Dublin. Infrastructure which is by now used by hundreds of thousands of people daily and no one would dream of tearing up. I think it's bias and should be called out as such.
You can use Free Now to be collected at the airport. They meet you in Zone 18. As you come out of T2 Arrivals there’s an outdoor escalator on the left. It’s about 80 metres from the bottom. I just hit Free Now at Customs.
How very apt….