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LAND USE FOR TRANSPORT
Land use is one of the most important elements in any transport solution as it has the potential to create the density,
balance and locations that are required to make public transport as effective and efficient as possible.
Public Transport in almost all countries has one major flaw, THE RADIAL SYSTEM - which is like the spokes of a wheel all
ending up at the centre. This flawed idea has not alone cost millions, but over the years it has hit the trillion mark in
inefficiencies and waste requiring it to be heavily subsidized.
Dublin is very fortunate with the abundance of available lands ideally located to facilitate a transport solution. The
transport layout must be adjusted to avail of this great facility. Dublin's great land bank (already formed) is located in
a circular fashion in corridor form on the outskirts of Dublin from Sandyford, Dundrum, Tallaght, CityWest, Baldonnel, Hewlett
Packard, Intel, around by Blanchardstown Industrial Estates through to the Airport. SEE MAP ABOVE FOR DETAILS.
This area already has one hundred thousand activities with a potential for over one million when fully utilized. This
circular corridor in itself would greatly reduce traffic movements towards the City Centre if utilized, so in ANY transport
plan, this circular land bank should be included.
This corridor has no direct Road or Transport Link and yet has massive amounts of activity. This corridor is now becoming
the CENTRE of the Greater Dublin Area taking into account the large number of people that moved to the countryside to get
a home and now have to commute into Dublin (mainly the centre) everyday. Maximizing this corridor to its full potential will
greatly reduce the distance for many thousands of hard pressed commuters giving them a better quality of life.
The present transport plans totally ignore this land use; these plans are designed only to get people to or via the centre,
and to go back out to their destinations thus wasting time and money and ignoring the principle of movement, which is DIRECT
movement. It is planning in isolation and this is why big projects like the DART and METRO will never solve the transport
problems we have even though they carry many millions in journeys.
We came up with the CIRCLE transport plan designed to address these problems to suit the user by taking them DIRECT, maximising
the use of land and eliminating the very costly radial system. The layout of Dublin with its abundance of land, road and rail,
used and unused, makes this transport solution put forward as a simple and cost effective plan, just requiring the network
of transport to be integrated and linked up, as shown in the map.
RAIL GAUGE is very important also for an integrated system and it is of vital importance that the gauge is STANDARD so
as to maximize the rail network to its full potential. Some of the ideas I have put forward on this website include three-and-one
rail, medium rail, one-way rail and double-up rail. I know these concepts can be difficult to absorb but looking through the
web pages and looking at the maps included will help greatly to decipher what I am trying to achieve.
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'Land Use location' is a vital part of transport infrastructure to facilitate projects of high usage; such as education
(colleges/schools etc), Hospitals, Park and Ride, Industrial Corridors, and Leisure Facilities (e.g. Stadiums). In our CIRCLE
TRANSPORT PLAN we took this into account as a main priority.
The lands at Peamount could be reserved for a National Children's Hospital and an extra University Campus. You could also
reserve the lands beside the rail line from Intel to Clonsilla for similar future activities.
Land use is so important as a transport solution when it maximises the full potential of the land in a self sustainable
way containing most of life's necessities. By maximising land use on the outskirts it would greatly reduce unnecessary movements
to the city centre. Dublin is very fortunate to have an abundance of land for this purpose on the outskirts in the 'orbital
industrial corridor' from Sandyford to Swords via Tallaght, Leixlip, Blanchardstown and Dublin Airport. The present planners
ignore this in favour of "ALL" going to the city centre making the problems costly AND worse.
For a National Children's Hospital and a University Campus, the lands around Peamount has almost everything. The road
network will be excellent including a feed off the M50. This area will include a national rail line from Adamstown, the Luas,
an excellent bus service, Baldonnel Airport and plenty of parking. Modern hospitals need space for disease containment built
in several 'isolated units'. It needs space to accommodate parents and friends from far away places etc,. The additional National
University would need space and avail of the excellent transport facilities with flexi-time to maximise rail use off-peak.
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