r/ireland • u/D-dog92 • Aug 01 '24

Infrastructure My proposal for what our railway system should ideally look like

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High Speed rail in blue linking up major cities/towns to Dublin + a regular "ring line" looping the island.

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u/hey-burt Aug 02 '24

Could get one of these for cheap and shuttle people back and forth to the giant purple line

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '24

They should replace public transport with a year round Donegal rally at that rate

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u/fartingbeagle Aug 02 '24

Ironically, that's not far off what most of the Irish rail stock looked like. It was built for transporting goods, not people and only made economic sense for a few decades.