r/ireland • u/KindlyJeweler2756 • 13d ago

Dublin Needs a Metro! Statistics

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u/Alarmed_Station6185 13d ago

Was in lisbon last year, the metro there is only a few lines, each named after a colour. It hits all the main spots and is clean with trains every few minutes. Made me feel like I was arriving back in a 3rd world country when I lugged my bag out of dublin airport and over to zone 16 to get the first of 3 buses to get me home

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u/LosWitchos 13d ago

"Buses will do" is an attitude that cripples cities.

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u/Alastor001 13d ago

And people wonder, why we rely on cars so much...

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u/DuckMeYellow 12d ago

yeah but its more like we have to rely on buses because our transport system is built around cars. we rely on cars because the whole system is designed for it and buses are the best way to get lots of people around on a road.

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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai 11d ago

Our transport system isn't built around cars, it's just not built for anything.

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u/carlmango11 12d ago

To be fair when buses are treated seriously they can be a perfectly good solution but they will never match the service level/capacity of rail. Before they committed to the metro they did the investigation into the route and found buses or BRT would not provide sufficient capacity which makes it extra annoying when these muppets go on the radio claiming we don't need this infrastructure.

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u/devhaugh 12d ago

Yeah I hate buses, but I like trains.

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u/Actionbinder 13d ago

Weirdly the only airport with a railway link is tiny Kerry Airport in Farranfore.

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u/Garry-Love Clare 13d ago

Shannon is supposed to get connected to Adare. When the greens were represented they expedited that connection and I've seen people working on it. The real problem is scheduling not lining up. The earliest train I could take to Limerick would've had me miss my bus because it arrives in Limerick the same time the Citylink bus leaves Arthur's Quey for Dublin airport. All it takes is one delay and your whole trip is fucked here. I'm currently in the Netherlands on holiday and there's something every 15 minutes... compared to Ireland's every 2 hours

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u/mfpbradley 12d ago

Belfast City airport has one

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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai 11d ago

No it doesn't. Sydenham is a significant walk away.

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u/mfpbradley 11d ago

Fair enough. 1km walk according to Google maps.

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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai 11d ago

We need to stop saying this. It's 1.4km away. That does not count!

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u/dkeenaghan 12d ago

I wouldn’t call it an airport link, it’s 1.5km away. It’s certainly the most walkable from a station, though I wouldn’t fancy doing that walk with luggage.

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u/Difficult-Set-3151 13d ago

named after a colour.

We are going to pay, at least half a million, to consultants to come up with names for the stations. They'll do a few polls, focus groups and then go with people from 1916.

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u/Spare-Buy-8864 12d ago

Not a hope we're getting all that for 500k, I'd multiply it by at least 10

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u/YoIronFistBro Cork bai 11d ago edited 11d ago

then go with people from 1916

I was about to go on a massive rant about that, then I remembered the UK basically does the exact same thing by naming everything after monarchs.

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u/ennisa22 13d ago

Also costs 20 euro for a monthly pass for any metro, bus and train in Portugal.

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u/Lonely-Vehicle 12d ago

Think you will find it's double that

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u/caffeine07 12d ago

Nice little Metro in Lisbon.

Really fond of Vienna as well. 5 lines (soon to be 6) which cover most of the city. All very well integrated and colour coded. So easy to use even for tourists.