2minutes sitting on Luas at OCS lights

Ronald Binge Redux

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120351147#Comment_120351147

Cut and cover? My God it would never have been built. It was bad enough when people were spreading ridiculous scare stories about 'Dublin never recovering from Luas'/Red built to 4'8.5" and Green built to 5'3" etc ad nauseum. When you have trams queuing up to cross OCS then there is something fundamentally wrong and clearly the NTA have zero interest in addressing that.

road_high

This is the beauty of an underground. You avoid all this mayhem. That’s what Dublin needs but try impressing that onto the decision makers

Ronald Binge Redux

Dug by unseen moles and with evaporating spoil no doubt.

LXFlyer

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120369754#Comment_120369754

To be fair, the number of bus routes terminating in the city centre has dropped significantly in recent years, and many of the old termini reallocated to LUAS.

But what you are seeing on a daily basis presently is increased numbers of buses parked up due to there being no driver available to take over the second half of a journey on a cross-city route as a result of the ongoing driver shortage.

Beta Ray Bill

I've experienced this too, it's an absolute pain.

The sad reality here is that the Luas Red line design was fudged. Red line intersects far to many very busy roads. It's widely accepted now that if you were to build a new rail line of any type, it needs to be either elevated or ran under ground to avoid these issues. Ireland went for the cheap option again.

I think its one of the main reasons why the Green line is such a success (Built on an old railway line) when compared to the Red line as it intersects very few roads up until Stephens Green

brianc89

I can't understand why they don't overhaul traffic on those Red Line city centre streets. There are loads of rat runs there which I use regularly, but they should massively restrict that.

A bunch of one way streets and local access only streets would massively decrease the conflicts with the Luas line.

Hotblack Desiato

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/120411590#Comment_120411590

Remember the little diddy trams the Red Line was saddled with at first - emblematic of the complete lack of vision.