the T was lightyears ahead of the Dublin metro system.
Wow, Dublin’s metro must suck. Boston’s subway is good by US standards, but it’s one of the worst of any major city I’ve been in elsewhere. The Green Line is more a tram than a subway line, and has that horrible tight turn under Park Street. For a city the size of Boston it has a decent number of different subway lines, but the whole system is old and poorly maintained.
Dublin metro was first planned in the 1980s. A definitive plan was finalized last year, and the construction was supposed to start next year, bur at the last possible moment a group of residents near one of the planned terminuses blocked it in court because the construction would “cause them undue stress”. So, if we’re lucky, the metro construction will begin within 50 years of the original plan. Ireland is thus remaining one of the very few European countries with sizable population, without a metro. Despite running such huge budget surpluses that we sometimes refuse to collect taxes from the multinationals.
In Boston, I stayed close to Alewife. The red line was decent to get me to the city centre, and I had two good bus connections to Lexington where I also had some business to attend to.
Wow, Dublin’s metro must suck. Boston’s subway is good by US standards, but it’s one of the worst of any major city I’ve been in elsewhere. The Green Line is more a tram than a subway line, and has that horrible tight turn under Park Street. For a city the size of Boston it has a decent number of different subway lines, but the whole system is old and poorly maintained.
Dublin metro was first planned in the 1980s. A definitive plan was finalized last year, and the construction was supposed to start next year, bur at the last possible moment a group of residents near one of the planned terminuses blocked it in court because the construction would “cause them undue stress”. So, if we’re lucky, the metro construction will begin within 50 years of the original plan. Ireland is thus remaining one of the very few European countries with sizable population, without a metro. Despite running such huge budget surpluses that we sometimes refuse to collect taxes from the multinationals.
In Boston, I stayed close to Alewife. The red line was decent to get me to the city centre, and I had two good bus connections to Lexington where I also had some business to attend to.