Dublin - Metrolink (Swords to Charlemont only)

This is more of a city council responsibility

The OPW own 44/45 (Garda station and fines office). The rest was private, even the Fingal CC offices were sold in 2005.

DCC had agreed not to CPO any bits of the site on the assumption that the original plans were going to go ahead.

IIRC it was just a retaining wall at the Mater? and the underground station at the airport is a myth

It's a good point though, the existing Dart station at Tara Street is less than ideal. At the very least this station should have a fully sheltered roof and the curve removed. The curve itself is quite severe and the platforms are too narrow for the number of users here. You'd hope IE will have a plan for this station following the ML construction but given how they totally underutilise the newly built second entrance, I'm not holding out much hope. It's actually laughable that so much money was spent on second entrances at both Tara and Pearse only for them to be opened over very limited hours. I will put money on it that the same will happen with the new and much touted Preton Street entrance of Connolly.

Most suburban staions on the Dart have at least one barrier left open since theres rarely staff there. The likes of Seapoint and Glasthule have even completely done away with barriers, with luas style validators in their place!

Good point.

They should have multiple entrances.

Sandymount is another example. Should be entrance in Serpentine AVE side. Huge amount of office workers there.

Worth emailing Eamon Ryan about.

I know that but you've to walk all the way to Sandymount Ave. They could have an entrance at the closer end of the platform.

But back to the point about Tara Street and the interchange between Dart and Metrolink: how is Irish Rail going to facilitate the interchange on their side given that this is already the country's busiest station without a ML interchange present? Will the new Dart fleet facilitate a step-free interchange at this station given the severe curving of the platforms? Which existing Irish Rail Tara Street entrance will be most used for ML interchanges (the old or the new one)? It seems to me that Tara is a terrible interchange because the station is so restricted and not up to the current standards so where is the effort to address those shortcomings and is it in the existing RO or not? A symptom of this is the sheer number of staff that IR need to station on the platforms just to ensure nobody literally falls through the cracks.

They're constructing a new building in that location, you can see its foundations in the satellite map. It looks like they're might be space to extend the platforms but I wouldn't count on it.

They probably just have a minimum clearance distance between buildings and the line. I wouldn't assume they've considered extending the platforms towards that building. If they had, the building wouldn't have been approved.

I don't think it's a good idea to move Tara St further south. This would leave <300m to the start of Pearse Street station, but extend the distance to Connolly Dart platforms to 900m.