The Gluas

[pete]

Wow, you really don't know Dublin do you? The stops on the Naas Road are Bluebell (obviously enough close to Bluebell and Drimnagh), Kylemore (which serves ballyfermot) and Red Cow (which serves Clondalkin). Do you honestly think these aren't huge population centres?

Excluding the Red Cow as that has large car park I have never noticed more than a few people queuing at Kylemore & Bluebell. I don't know if someone from Ballyfermot would trek out to the Luas to get into the City centre as bus would be more direct. On the long mile road side there is almost no residential population. I feel light rail works best if travels through population centres & not just nearby.

:confused:

[Lionel Ritchie]

Outrageous :mad:
Leave Bruff alone, it is NOT one of those west county towns, its practically a suburb of Limerick city. No offence to Kerry, but NO! :mad:

Unreserved apologies. I'd one of those moments where you're picturing one place (not Bruff) and sticking the wrong name of another place (...Bruff) on it. I'm thinking more of the Abbeyfeales, the Ballingarrys ...even the Shanagoldens. But enough about that on a thread about a light rail system for Galway city

...though I've a photograph taken of Shanagolden on a winter morn that's only slightly less hilarious than the GLUAS idea. I'll root it out.

[sadloserkid]

Meanwhile out in the desolate windswept west we can have a deeply moving ceremony where we hand the likes of Bruff and Glin over to Kerry to do with as Kerry sees fit. :cool:

Bruff is nowhere near Kerry. Closer to Tipperary.

Apologies. My indignation kicked in as soon as I read Lionel's unfounded comments and I rushed in to leave my mark before reading to the end of the thread and seeing that Kev got there first.

And to drag thingsmarginally back on topic as for the Gluas I'd be surprised if it was really all that viable tbh but there's nothing wrong with Galway CC exploring the idea surely? As long as they don't embark upon it anyway as a vanity project. And in actual terms Limerick's population is about 85,000. It's beyond belief that Raheen, Dooradoyle and Corbally aren't included in the city boundaries.