Dublin Metro North

Victor

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murphaph

Overall I am impressed with the plans but of course, it's not perfect.

From a passenger point of view it'll be a pain using Drumcondra to interchange with IE. If you are using platform 2 in the IE station you will have to go up and over the IE tracks to the IE concourse are of the new station and then down underground to change to MN. Bit tedious when (given extra money probably) they could have had an escalator from the IE platform 2 directly down to the IE concourse level and eliminate the up-and-over aspect.

At St. Stephen's Green you will not be able to use an escalator to change (directly) from MN to Interconnector! You will either have to use a staircase, the lift or a convoluted use of escalators which nobody will do. The Interconnector gets a direct escalator to the ticket hall (immediately under the ground) which is excellent given how far down the IC tracks will be. I reckon this will be the longest single escalator in Ireland actually. MN gets escalators to a nice open mezzanine and further escalators to the ticket hall, but there's no escalators direcly linking MN to IC platforms, just a staircase and lifts-slightly disappointing I think.

Interesting that in a station ostensibly built by the RPA there will only be an IE 'station manager's office' and ticket office! MN customers will only have TVMs, no personal touch! I think in the flagship station this is a mistake and there should be MN staff on hand here-not at the remote suburban 'commuter' stops but here, yes.

Is this actually going to happen?

Nostradamus

murphaph wrote: »

Is this actually going to happen?

Yes.

Unfortunately it is the Interconnector the "visionaries" are humming and hawing over.