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Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 7 July 2004

Wednesday, 7 July 2004

Questions (143)

Billy Timmins

Question:

133 Mr. Timmins asked the Minister for Transport his plans for the development of the Phoenix Park tunnel; and if he discussed the matter with Irish Rail. [20309/04]

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I understand that the rail connection between Heuston and Connolly stations is over 7 kms in length, part of which passes through a tunnel under the Phoenix Park.

Irish Rail is looking at the potential for making greater use of the Phoenix Park tunnel when the second phase of the DART upgrade programme is completed in 2007 and extra rail paths into Connolly Station become available.

The difficulty with the use of the tunnel at present is that Connolly Station has a limited number of train paths available through it. In order to facilitate services from Heuston trains would have to be taken off services from Maynooth, Dundalk or the DART.

By the end of August Irish Rail customers will be able to board Luas trams outside of Hueston station to take them to Dublin City centre, Busarus and Connolly Station within a matter of minutes, a distance of around 3 kms.

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