Tension over future of Rosslare-Waterford rail route

...greenways are a fantastic addition to our infrastructure, and people know this, hence the shares and likes, but its somewhat understandable why concerns are expressed over costs of major projects such as rail, as we ve conditioned ourselves to think such must be financed via general taxation, this is actually very much untrue, we have to start embracing major public borrowing for such projects, as the benefits far out way the risks of taking on such debts...

ah shur, thats the gig, wealth extraction, its relative easy money.....

....so what would you call it?

And this Greenway proposal from New Ross to Wexford via Macmine Junction has the support of all the landowners who have assumed the alignment into their fields?

...be far cheaper to upgrade an existing line than trying to create a new one!

Tender gone out today for section of the Greenway https://irl.eu-supply.com/ctm/Supplier/PublicPurchase/237108/1/0

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selfish, how so?

...but we do need to start reopening and in fact expand our rail network, and rather urgently to...

Do people not realise that this line was open and did have a rosslare to Limerick route, latterly Limerick junction to waterford, and connecting trains.

NO-ONE used it. The notion of the connection to Rosslare port being a vital strategic link is bullsh!t - Rosslare port is mostly ro-ro traffic and foot passenger traffic is minimal. This has been the case since cheap flights became a thing over the last 20 years or so. You have people advocating for facilitating a type of travel that simply no longer exists at that port.

I remember being on that train once or twice and it was only myself, a disinterested IE ticket checker and probably a similarly jaded IE driver on the train. No-one else.

...this is actually highly subjective, and in the interest of fairness, but are in fact equally important, both are critically needed pieces of infrastructure, for our overall wellbeing and existence, we need to expand both, and at the same time....

...it looks like we maybe coming to an end of the era of cheap energy, for obvious reasons, which means we could be coming an end in cheap transport options such as cheap flights, we clearly need to move back to rail, but to more advanced methods of fast rail, roads are becoming very congested, and if we keep pressuring oil based industries, which is more than likely whats gonna happen, alternatives such as rail are gonna have to be a part of the solution, which of course can be electrified....

...again, i do somewhat agree here, we probably do have to put a halt in converting pre-existing lines to greenways, and consider building greenways from scratch, as the overall costs of building lines compared to greenways, from scratch, far exceeds the latter, and we urgently need to start reopen lines, and expand our network, in order to meet our current, and future demands....

..increases in busses will also be needed, but so to will light rail, similar to the luas....