Limerick improvement projects

Maybe something to do with one of the Georgian buildings been done up around there.

It needs to have a passing loop and second platform. Otherwise as Cookiemunster mentions, it will not be able to compete with the existing bus services already in situ.

Will be suggesting that a passing loop is added.

What's the purpose of a public consultation after the site is selected and planning permission sought?

Well if you add stations around Ballysimon, Raheen & Mungret you have an efficient & sustainable transport network connecting the outer parts of the city with each other which opens up housing and commercial development opportunities and provides greater access to jobs regardless of where you live in the metro area. You could also add stops in Corbally, Park Rd, Parkway, Ballinacurra, Dooradoyle. If you want to go to the city centre you can get a bus, cycle or drive. Not every trip starts/finishes in the city centre so we shouldn't be trying to funnel every trip through it. Add another station in Patrickswell and build more housing out there. Limerick has an opportunity to distinguish itself from other Irish cities and make it a very attractive proposition for FDI by developing a light urban rail network that connects with Shannon Airport and the intercity network.

The problem with Moyross compared to Colbert is where people are coming from. Moyross/TUS will only be coming from Clare and maybe Galway. Numbers compared to those coming in from Cork, Tipp and beyond would be small I would say.

What are you basing your numbers on, there's a significant number of students getting off trains in Limerick already, that could grow if they had an option of a station closer to their college

"I would say" means literally that. I'm only guessing or musing.

The morning train from Ennis is already very busy and if getting off in Moyross makes some of their lives easier I'm all for it. But any new TUS students not using the train that may be taken in by this would need to be from Ennis or Sixmilebridge really. It's not Limerick is the problem it's the catchment area of that line.

I want the station to be built but at the same time I'm not gonna pretend that stuff like that fantastical piece Cookiemunster posted is actually true.

If as said earlier we actually built new lines which I think the state has never done outside Dublin you could send some Ennis trains straight to Ballysimon and the junction. You could also have the backbencher darling that is the train to Shannon which Moyross people would use for work. But none of that will happen.

Well there is no will and zero vision so that's that then.

Anyone know the current figures , would have thought nearly7k people lived within a 15min radius as it is now or close too it ?

quick google suggest moyross is a lot less than it used to be !!

What you are proposing is something approaching a half-assed integrate commuter rail system for Limerick Metropolitan area. The place for that to emerge was LMATS, and it's interesting that it didn't, in any shape or form. All that LMATS threw up was the same old stations for Moyross and Ballysimon.

With no park and ride, no passing loop, no double tracking, no mention of additional services and little prospect of additional stations what will now happen is a large sum of money will be spent conveniencing a few Clare based TUS students. This money would provide a far better return and have a far greater impact on the lives of people living in the area if it were spent on prioritising the completion of the LNDR phase 1 and initiating phase 2, or moving Bus Connects forward instead of pandering to Ryan/Leddin's train fetish.

Maybe but it can't be difficult to have a train on a platform waiting to depart to Ennis as soon as the morning trains to Limerick arrive in to Limerick

If they're building the station for those trains only then it's a white elephant

The bus stop most of them use at the moment is up near Johnsie's Shop and that's to town rather than the station, granted it is more frequent.

Obviously they don't alight at TUS, the station is in Moyross but there's a walk whichever mode of transport they use

If it's as unfriendly as your suggesting then the station is a waste of money

I guess if enough people raise concerns about the project, then it won't go ahead.

It is our money after all.

I think the Northern Distributor Road is more valuable to Limerick city but the Greens don't like new roads. It would actually be better for Moyross than a train station.

Likewise the Colbert Quarter and Cleeves site are better use of resources but I guess that money comes from a different pot.

I don't think it a question of the NDR or the station. Both are probably needed for an expanding city.

Yeah a high speed, more frequent, bus is a great idea but we have not been able to implement any such thing in the past in this city.

The station is just that, a station, you might maybe need to re-allign the tracks but you won't need to build new ones so it will be quite cost effective from that point of view. Costs will also be recouped on rail tickets over time.

It will be great for anybody in the area, which is nearly 3 times the population of sixmilebridge, looking to take a bus or train from Colbert. Students at TUS and on match days in Thomond Park it could take a lot of the traffic off the city streets

And the Gaelic grounds.

I suppose it's a lot handier than getting into town to catch a Dublin or Galway train etc.

Especially once the link roads are built.

11 minutes by bus to Colbert station? Good luck doing that during rush hour or on a TP match day, if the bus shows up at all haha!

The GAA should be encouraged/forced to do the shuttle buses from the new station to the Gaelic Grounds, use the new LNDR from Moyross to the Ennis Rd, bus lane to Ivan's and then use the closed road the grounds.

What is 11 mins. Is that how long they say the train will take ?

Bus stops all through Moyross so unless you are very lucky it is a walk to the new station and then a walk from Colbert because it is near nothing.

I would say I get that bus from Moyross a lot more than you and honestly nobody thinks the journey is too long. And they have no problem voicing their opinions on that bus.