One-hour gaps between Dart trains to Bayside, Sutton and Howth.<\/p>\n
In 1984 there were 6 morning peak-hour departures from Howth (at 0800, 0810, 0825, 0836, 0850 and 0900), compared to 3 trains (0759, 0820 and 0845) over the same period today. Malahide has 2 Darts and 1 railcar in the same hour, so there is a net reduction in the total number of Dart trains leaving. There may be a justification that there is a signalling capacity constraint during peak times.<\/p>\n
There is no such justification for the lack of evening services:<\/p>\n
Sunday evening from City Centre to Howth in 1984 – 10 trains<\/strong>: 2034, 2054, 2119, 2134, 2154, 2214, 2234, 2254, 2314, 2334<\/p>\n Sunday evening from City Centre to Howth in 2007 – 5 trains<\/strong>: 2027, 2110, 2210, 2310, 2350<\/p>\n Maybe the 5 missing Darts are going to Malahide? No, there are only 3 departures to Malahide over this time period: 2040, 2140 and 2240. <\/p>\n This reduction in services was introduced in 2006 and has been repeated in the 2007 timetable despite strong protests from passengers.<\/p>\n The Greens believe public transport must be maintained as a convenient frequent service throughout the day and in the evenings. This decline in the Dart service must be reversed. Trains, trams and buses must be integrated into a single efficient and convenient network. Public transport is a top priority for Greens in Dublin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" One-hour gaps between Dart trains to Bayside, Sutton and Howth. In 1984 there were 6 morning peak-hour departures from Howth (at 0800, 0810, 0825, 0836, 0850 and 0900), compared to 3 trains (0759, 0820 and 0845) over the same period today. Malahide has 2 Darts and 1 railcar in the same hour, so there […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidhealy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}