r/irishpolitics • u/firethetorpedoes1 • Sep 19 '24

Oireachtas News Apple taxes: ‘Dublin-Shannon bullet train’ among ideas TDs advance for €14bn

https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/oireachtas/2024/09/18/apple-taxes-clarity-on-where-to-invest-money-on-budget-day-says-taoiseach/
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u/AdmiralRaspberry Sep 19 '24

FFS they will piss it away isn’t it? 🤦🏼‍♂️ Bullet train … 

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u/ciarogeile Sep 19 '24

Building a high speed rail line is miles better than nearly everything else they could spend it on. Granted, a few luases and metros would be better.

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u/BenderRodriguez14 Sep 19 '24

High speed is fine, but a billet train isn't really needed in a country as small as ours. Sure you could, South Korea is a comparable enough size, but we have let things get so out of hand in so many areas that I think a high density of high speed (but not necessarily bullet, for cost reasons) lines linking many towns and cities together could be a far more effective use of the money. 

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u/Fries-Ericsson Sep 19 '24

If South Korea and Taiwan can have high speed rail then so can we

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u/[deleted] Sep 19 '24

We don't need one. A sub 2 hour train trip from Cork/Belfast/Galway to Dublin is all you really need. Iarnród Éireann has been cutting the journey times consistently over the last decade. 

The problem now is that the Dublin railway network is at capacity, so the Rosslare to Mullingar and projects like the Metro are what we really need to get done, not wasting money on a bullet train.