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Since the early 2000s, a number of proposals have been made by politicians and interest groups in Cork City, Ireland to introduce a light rail system in the city. As of early 2019 it was in a period of public consultation. The proposal, which has "no definitive timeline", [1] has been compared to the Luas light rail system in Dublin. [2]
There have been, at various points, plans or proposals to extend Luas to Swords, Dublin Airport, Lucan, Bray, and Old Fassaroe. There have also been proposals to create a Luas-style system in Cork City. These include plans by Cork City Council, published within the Cork Metropolitan Area Transport Strategy document in 2019. [37]
The Dublin–Cork Main Line is the main InterCity railway route in Ireland between Dublin Heuston and Cork Kent. In 2018, 3.46 million passengers travelled on the line, a 10% increase from 2017 figures.
This project, to reopen part of the Cork–Youghal railway line as far as Midleton, started construction in November 2007. New stations were built on the Northern Line to Mallow from Cork's Kent station and on the Eastern Line to Cobh and Midleton, as well as a new 10 km section of rail line from Glounthaune to Midleton. A total of 7 new or ...
The proposal included the construction of a tunnel extension from the Ranelagh area to St. Stephen's Green, where it would have linked with Metro North. At the time, it was planned that trains could either enter the tunnel at Ranelagh to run on the Metro North route towards Swords, or continue at street level on the Luas tracks towards Broombridge.
The bulk of these (up to 250 cars) was intended as EMUs to expand DART services. This project was cancelled in 2009. [citation needed] The remainder, totaling up to 150 cars, consisted of DMU sets for the expansion of Commuter services in Cork and Limerick, as well as the long-distance Commuter sets for services in Leinster.
In April 2021, the Gluas Group held a webinar in which Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan announced a feasibility study on Light Rail for 2022. [11]In October 2024, a feasibility study commissioned by the National Transport Authority found that there was a case for constructing a fifteen-kilometre light rail line from Roscam to Knocknacarra via Eyre Square and University Hospital Galway.
The project was not included in the DART+ expansion plans published in August 2020. [ 10 ] In April 2021, the project was reportedly "being resurrected" [ 6 ] but in November 2021 the NTA stated that the DART Underground / Interconnector would not proceed until after 2042, although they would "preserve and protect an alignment to allow its ...