ISSUE Thursday NO. 81 January 19th, 2017
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Council’s ‘save the trains plan’ is foolish warns Byrne A detailed Wexford Co. Council submission aimed at persuading Irish Rail to retail rail services to Wexford town and Rosslare has been strongly criticised by one of the Council’s own members who has branded a key recommendation in the submission ‘foolish’ Cllr Malcolm Byrne also said it was clear the submission, presented to members at the January meeting of the Council this week by Director of Services Tony Larkin, was written by someone who does not use the service. The Council’s submission which calls for better rolling stock, greater frequency and timetable improvements for services on the line, suggests this could be achieved by halting the intercity service from Rosslare at Bray, with travellers
transferring to DART services for the journey to the city centre. It was this suggestion which infuriated Cllr. Byrne, who is a regular user of the train from Gorey to Dublin. He said the majority of paying customers on the service were commuters and anything which made the service less attractive to them would be a foolish move. While appreciating the amount of work that went into the submission Cllr Byrne also pointed he had been correct at the meeting when he said there were three evening trains back to Wexford town, despite Mr Larkin appearing to believe there was only one. Instead of stopping services at Bray Cllr Byrnes said the intercity services should be given priority over DART trains on
the journey from Bray in to the city centre, pending the building of an additional line to facilitate all train traffic in the area. Cllr. Byrne’s post meeting statement came after his objections to the submission did not win favour with his council colleagues who supported the document. The Council’s submission suggests running intercity services between Rosslare and Bray and increasing their frequency to make the service more attractive for commuters from all over the county, Cllr. John Hegarty told the meeting that in other countries it was not unusual for people to transfer to local services from mainline routes for travel into a city centre. Cllr. Willie Fitzharris said if the line could be made more attrac-
tive with better trains and services more customers would use the trains and if full trains of people were arriving in Bray then they would be in a position to campaign for further improvements. Cllr. Tony Dempsey said there was a log-jam in Bray which had to be addressed while Cllr. Anthony Kelly said it was vital that the train services were scheduled to meet the ferries at Rosslare. Cllr. George Lawlor said the development of freight services through Rosslare Port was a key issue for the future and the existence of a rail line was vital for that. Following a lengthy discussion the members agreed to send the submission with no amendment despite the strong objections from Cllr. Byrne.
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