Ireland is evolving fast, population growing, growth rising, needs housing and transportation. Firstly, people usually get work after college, then the housing chase begins but they have no control over it in the present house location climate, resulting in higher costs. Public transport designs should not aid house price increases with Metro Link as they are already too expensive. People chase housing wherever possible to get one. In the past it was adjoining counties due to availability and costs. It is usually not near where they live, this creates to more car driving adding to traffic congestion and takes them away from the wider family support network. Now due to planning guidelines, house building is near rail lines, rightly so. All the new towns with available lands for housing are close to a rail line but unfortunately all the rail lines are city centre bound, a major flaw when so many people now work outside the city centre forcing many users from these new towns and elsewhere to go via the centre to get to work to areas outside city centre. This adds to their travel day, wastes seats, requiring more vehicles. This ensures three rail lines in Dublin operate empty daily. This commuter problem can be solved if one of the three life modes can adjust. Work can’t adjust in any significant way. Housing cannot adjust either as people have no choice where to buy. Public Transport is the only one that can adjust’
Adamstown/Clonburris the first of these towns that is now faced with this commuter problem of going via centre unnecessary to get to work. This will become a major problem when the other nine new towns are built. They will provide over 250,000 homes, up to an extra million people. This along with housing developments in adjoining counties who want to access Dublin. This is why we have come up with a plan that can ease these growing traffic problems especially on the M50 and help address climate change, with a bigger reduction in the use of fossils fuels. It is known as the Newton or Newtown Plan. It takes people direct to all destinations in Dublin in a timely manner, very important for work and makes the three life modes feasible by maximising public transport particularly the full use of rail. This can be done by one rail line in best location, in line with the three principles of planning that can increase rail use by over 5-fold.
Dublin is a relatively small city and the one rail line solution (Missing rail link) makes access to all areas fast, frequent, flexible aided by using standard rail gauge to reduce changing vital for work, especially for longer distance users and Island platforms, where users don’t have to cross rail tracks, great for disabled users, women with children and elderly. This system will be helpful to maintain family bonds of past years due to easier access for both city and country users.
The big advantage of this plan, it keeps to the three great principles of planning. 1. Direct access. 2. All vehicles in best location to suit users. 3. In solving a problem don’t create another,
Dublin is getting a Metro, anyway, an overground Metro Dart. Like a road, direct to all areas. It links in with all other modes of transport, can be done quickly and it self-finances. Cycling gets a new system Equal Cycling Priority as it is not possible to put a cycle lane on every road. City Centre needs G-Link orbital Luas to disperse around city the large numbers arriving in centre. Quay Bus Contraflow, best placed, engine of bus network. City Interchange benefiting all users. Home working helps now, 4-day week helps later, eventually running out of road, let’s get on right track now with the Metro Dart that benefits all areas of Ireland including Dublin city centre. With all city rail lines being upgraded to Dart makes Metro Dart even more viable. Another big advantage with this plan, rail for early flights allows more come in early and finish early for work, spreading out peak time usage making better use of rail and spreading out vehicle movements. New plan waits for commuters instead of users waiting for uncertainty of public transport.