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The Government has been told it has “no other option” but to build a new railway line into Dublin, if it wants to relieve congestion on the M50.
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Is the M50 at full capacity?🛣️
Sean Keyes of Progress Ireland joined us this morning to tell us how we can tackle our traffic problem 🚘
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This is the key chart. If you keep slamming cars into the M50, throughput drops a little bit but average speed drops a lot. In a couple of years the whole thing could move at 30kph
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The Red Cow is the centre of Ireland. It’s where Ireland’s most populous regions meet its biggest city. And it’s full up.
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I was nominated for some of my writing for @ProgressIreland. The winners were a paper on the effects of Irish rent control, and a report on demography.
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Congrats @Sam__Enright, finalist in the Foundation for Fiscal Studies’ Miriam Hederman O’Brien prize. Link to his award-nominated piece below
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I have a special fondness for niche professional prizes.
An honour to be a finalist for Ireland's fiscal policy research award!
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Dublin is on track for 3m people. Do we want it to be:
A city with a strong centre accessed by rail, like Munich (on the left...)
OR...
A city with jobs spread out along highways like Dallas (right)?
Without deliberate planning and investment, we'll end up more like Dallas.
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See the yellow dot? That's Dublin.
Of 24 rich-world cities with about 2 to 3 million people, only Auckland has less motorway and trunk road within 40 km of the city centre. Every European city here has at least three times Dublin's electrified rail.
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Building housing in multiple small developments isn't going to solve the crisis, writes Seán Keyes - and big plans have advantages of their own jrnl.ie/7171753t
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Ireland has a lot of hard problems to fix in our energy system. High electricity prices driven by expensive gas + rising wind costs. A grid that was built for a different era.
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Last year I rode a big, modern, and completely empty train to Berryessa in California.
Copenhagen's metro, by contrast, carries 50x the riders per dollar spent on the California line.
A lesson on how to assess rail projects.
Thread below. 🧵
Link: surl.li/xubnmx
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My piece on how other countries are addressing housing shortages was picked up by The Journal:
Other countries are struggling with urban housing scarcity - mid-rise buildings are just one possible solution they're exploring... jrnl.ie/7157316t
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In Dublin, the median house price is around five times the median household income. In Sydney, it’s 14x.
Housing shortages and high prices are unfortunately common in cities across the world. Here are some things governments around the world are doing to solve their housing shortage.
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Big metro stations are very expensive, said @EnglishRail. Also: modern automated trains accelerate and decelerate faster. So: smaller platforms with more frequent stops can move the same number of people at lower construction cost. This was Metrolink's design approach.
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Next Wednesday, cabinet decides whether Metrolink advances to final tenders. Here are four good reasons to approve it.
1. Per kilometre, Metrolink would be mid-table among peers.
Progress Ireland retweeted
Irish transport cost-benefit analyses assume a project won't change how nearby land gets used. This discriminates against the most transformative projects, since hanging the city is the entire point of a metro.
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We pay more for wind energy than other European countries.
In the latest auction for onshore wind in Germany, the average price was €50.60. In Ireland, it was €96.56, almost twice as much. Why do we pay so much more?
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