Meath on Track campaign
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Started: September 30, 2005, 2:48:15 pm
Target: Noel Dempsey, Minister and TD for Meath
Category: Environment
Supporters:

747
Goal:

500
Goal Progress:

100% Complete
Status

Goal Met!
I fully support re-opening of commuter rail services to Meath, and believe that living in Meath and working in Dublin will be made much easier if this is to happen.

I believe that the solution to ending N3 commuter misery is simple, but the current rail solution on offer to commuters in Meath is inadequate.

The big problem with the Dunboyne extension is that it isn't a rail solution for Meath - it will go as far as the Dublin-Meath border where it stops, and most of us living in Meath will have to pay 2 M3 tolls each way to get there, as well as Park & Ride charges, and that is before we even pay for our rail tickets.

Promises of re-opening the line at a later date seem empty as building the M3 across the route of the old Navan line without putting in bridges to facilitate the lines re-opening means that it is unlikely that the Dublin-Navan line will ever be reopened again. The cost of re-opening the line if the M3 is built across it without bridges is likely to be prohibitive. An Bord Pleanála recently stipulated that the N6 bridge the route of the disused Limerick-Athenry line to facilitate the lines re-opening in future - why does the M3 not bridge the Dublin-Navan line?

I fully support the Meath on track campaign's 5 goals:

1. To ensure that the existing Navan-Drogheda-Dublin line remains in operation and opens to commuter trains.
2. To secure immediate provision of 2 non-stop express commuter trains from Navan to Dublin via the existing Navan-Drogheda-Dublin line, twice a day.
3. To ensure that the M3 plans are changed to bridge the Navan line at Cannistown, etc.
4. To scrap the token rail solution that is the Dunboyne extension plan in favour of re-opening NOW the Dublin-Navan-Kells line via Dunshaughlin & Ratoath.
5. To secure planning for re-opening of Broadstone Station in Dublin as a terminus for the Navan rail service (as it was in the past), to avoid IE's excuse of lack of station capacity.

Meath at present is suffering from an acute infrastructure deficit, and I believe that the Meath on track proposals must be met immediately.




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Angela Carry said 11/02/05, 8:14 am (verified)
I travel the N3 to get to Tallaght.. it's a NIGHTMARE. We need to do something and NOW
#747

Peter Monahan said 11/02/05, 7:52 am (verified)
houses were advertised in Johnstown Wood in navan in 1999 saying that the line would be complete with 3 years.Ireland reland need this to reduce the CO2 emmissions
#746

Dina Murphy said 11/02/05, 1:16 am (verified)
I support this petition.
#745

eileengaughran said 11/01/05, 8:20 pm (verified)
all tha roads around are choked up.a rail line will ease this congestion enormously,and give meath commuters some quality of life. eileengaughran
#744

Pam Quiinlan said 11/01/05, 6:11 pm (verified)
I support this petition.
#743

Michael Farrelly said 11/01/05, 5:32 pm (verified)
I support this petition.
#742

RAY WOODWARD said 11/01/05, 5:08 pm (verified)
I support this petition.
#741

Mick Farrelly said 11/01/05, 5:05 pm (verified)
I support this petition.
#740

Ronan Gingles said 11/01/05, 5:04 pm (verified)
The fastest growing county in the country has an antiquated transport system. Bad enough that so many Meath people are forced to commute but that they are forced onto cramped and dangerous roads is worse. It also stagnates accessibility (investment, tourism...) to a county of great potential. Rail travel should not be seen as a luxury addition to a motorway...or a cash cow element in a park-and-ride scam.
#739

Conor Murphy said 11/01/05, 4:39 pm (verified)
I support this petition.
#738

Glena Poole said 11/01/05, 4:19 pm (verified)
I support this petition.
#737

donna McNulty said 11/01/05, 4:19 pm (verified)
I support this petition.
#736

Anita Watts said 11/01/05, 4:10 pm (verified)
I support this petition.
#735

Niall Brunnock said 11/01/05, 3:50 pm (verified)
I support this petition.
#734

Marsela Sinani said 11/01/05, 3:40 pm (verified)
I support this petition.
#733

Paul Mullan said 11/01/05, 3:35 pm (verified)
In the last election under the heading"a lot done,more to do,"Fianna Fail listed a Navan-Dublin rail line a priority.More election hot air?
#732

Caitriona Coyne said 11/01/05, 3:11 pm (verified)
I support this petition.
#731

deirdre oreilly said 11/01/05, 2:48 pm (verified)
I support this petition.
#730

Brenda Timmons said 11/01/05, 2:39 pm (verified)
I support this petition.
#729

emma hayes said 11/01/05, 2:31 pm (verified)
I support this petition.
#728